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Cultivating Resilience in Schools Toolkit

The Cultivating Resilience in Schools toolkit is intended to be used by school-based leadership teams, which include representation across all areas and key collaborators, to establish systems and structures for building resilient schools and learning communities. It should be used in consideration of contextual, cultural, and social factors unique to each organization and everyone within the organization. Its comprehensive approach help makes connections and authentic relationships among educators, students and families, and promote positive school climate and culture, with an emphasis on classroom culture, safety and wellness. 

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Mental Health and High School Curriculum Guide (Version 3)

The Mental Health and High School Curriculum Guide developed in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association provides a complete set of educational tools to increase understanding of mental health and mental disorders among both students and teachers. The guide focuses on training teachers to be comfortable with their own knowledge of mental health and mental disorders, and then empowers the teachers to share this knowledge with their students through a curriculum delivered in a multiple module format. The program uses a variety of interactive sessions that help to promote dialogue among students, as well as with their teachers. Discussing mental health and mental illness in a supportive, familiar environment enables youth to feel safe, ask questions, gain knowledge, combat stigma and develop their own opinions of the world around them. The teachers training materials are provided for free, and many of the other materials are incorporated into this curriculum site.

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Mental Health Literacy: Definition, Importance, and Impact

This website helps build understanding and increasing individuals’ mental health literacy. Today we understand that mental health is a crucial and inseparable component of overall health. With a high degree of mental health literacy, individuals and communities are empowered to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness and to know where to go to seek support for mental health issues.

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Mental Health Literacy Toolkit for Youth

Download a MHL toolkit for youth to help young people who want to make a
difference in mental health. The toolkit was created with real youth voices and lived experiences. Participants gain knowledge, tools, and encouragement to be advocates for mental wellness in their lives and communities, and learn the core framework of mental health literacy. MHLC also offers live workshops.

Mental Health Literacy (MHL) is a critical piece of education and a proactive solution to the current mental health crisis. MHL includes four core components: understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health; understanding common mental health disorders, signs & symptoms, and treatments; understanding how to seek help effectively; and understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction.

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Mental Health Literacy Live and Asynchronous Trainings

Mental Health Literacy (MHL) is a critical piece of education and a proactive solution to the current mental health crisis. MHL includes four core components: understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health; understanding common mental health disorders, signs & symptoms, and treatments; understanding how to seek help effectively; and understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction.

MHLC’s leveled certification model addresses these barriers by helping individuals and communities gain confidence and competence around a topic they might otherwise avoid. Check out their website to view their live and asynchronous training options.

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How to Build Students’ Resilience

As educators, we talk a lot about resilience—how students need it to bounce back from challenges, grit their teeth, and persevere. But what if resilience isn’t just about bouncing back? What if it’s about bouncing forward, adapting, thriving, and growing stronger with each setback? The good news is that resilience isn’t some mystical trait. It’s a skill—a muscle, if you will—that we can strengthen in our students. The strategies we utilize in the classroom are the ultimate training ground. Teachers can use these strategies to strengthen their students’ ability to cope with setbacks and frustration.

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Mental Health in Schools

One in six U.S. youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year, and half of all mental health conditions begin by age 14. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), behavior problems, anxiety, and depression are the most commonly diagnosed mental disorders in children. Yet, about half of youth with mental health conditions received any kind of treatment in the past year. NAMI believes that public policies and practices should promote greater awareness and early identification of mental health conditions. NAMI supports public policies and laws that enable all schools, public and private, to increase access to appropriate mental health services. Check out these websites and resources to promote and support mental health in schools.

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School Mental Health Quality Guides

These guides from the National Center for School Mental Health provide information to help school mental health systems advance the quality of their services and supports. There is a unique guide for each of the seven domains of the SMHQ Assessment: teaming, need assessment and resource mapping, screening, teaming, Tier 1, Tiers 2 and 3 (services and supports), funding and sustainability, and impact. Each guide contains background information on the domain, best practices, possible action steps, examples from the field, and resources.

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What’s the Difference between SEL and Mental Health?

There are many ways in which work on mental health and social emotional learning reinforces and supports one another, and these collective efforts impact emotional well-being. Part of the challenge is clarifying how these efforts coincide and how they differ. Through the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Learning Collaborative, CASEL is working alongside the National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH). As part of this collaborative, educational leaders explore how social emotional learning and comprehensive school mental health contribute to overall emotional well-being, focusing in on four key areas of work that unite these two efforts.

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