Whole School Prevention Planning

Educating the Whole Child: Improving School Climate to Support Student Success

This brief reviews research demonstrating that student learning and development depend on affirming relationships operating within a positive school climate. It describes how such an environment can provide all children with a sense of safety and belonging by creating safe and culturally responsive classroom communities, connecting with families, teaching social-emotional skills, helping students learn to learn, and offering a multi-tiered system of supports.

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Parent Guidance: Resources for Caregivers

This website includes a library of courses, developed by mental health experts, offer hope, answers, and compassionate help for caregivers. The site also offers a section called “Ask a Therapist,” where caregivers can find answers to common though difficult questions they might have about their child. Caregivers can also learn the skills to recognize address suicidal thoughts in your children. Explore risk factors, warning signs, how to respond appropriately.

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Comprehensive Behavioral Health Model: Case Example

Read about The BHS department is comprised of over 100 school psychologists and over 50 graduate students, which support all BPS schools to provide student-level services (e.g. counseling & interventions) and systems-level services (e.g. climate team facilitation). Every child experiences a pro-social curriculum as part of their classroom and school experience. Teachers periodically review each of their students’ behavioral health strengths and needs. Students in need of additional support are provided appropriate services in a timely fashion. Teams of teachers and administrators review student behavioral health data and process on a regular basis. Community partners, families, and school personnel meet periodically and are in consistent communication about children who are receiving support.
This work is aligned with NASP Practice Model.

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Advancing Comprehensive School Mental Health Systems: Guidance from the Field

Comprehensive school mental health systems provide an array of supports and services that promote positive school climate, social and emotional learning, and mental health and well-being, while reducing the prevalence and severity of mental illness. This 2019 guide from National Center for School Mental Health offers collective insight and guidance to local communities and states to advance comprehensive school mental health systems. Contents were informed by examination of national best practices and performance standards, local and state exemplars, and recommendations provided by federal/national, state, local and private leaders.

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Student Well-Being Survey

Measure and Understand Student Well-Being With a Research-Backed Instrument: Sometimes referred to as “youth positive development” or as “indicators of thriving,” student well-being is a predictor of outcomes including educational achievement, mental health, economic prosperity, and relationship success. By asking students to reflect on their well-being through surveys, schools and districts can gather actionable data to better support students socially and emotionally. Measuring well-being can contribute to a “whole child” educational approach, signal to students and their families the importance of mental health, help focus limited counseling resources on at-risk students, and inform a community-wide response to the trauma of student suicide.

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Student and GSA Resources

LGBTQ+ student-led clubs and GSAs (Gender and Sexuality Alliances) are leading the work to create safe and LGBTQ-inclusive schools, and student organizers are the nation’s most powerful base for creating change. Find out how to start a GSA, get free resources to support your GSA’s work, take part in the Day of Silence, Solidarity Week, and join the national network of more than GSAs by registering your student club.

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Stop Bullying

StopBullying.gov is a U.S. Department of Education federal website that provides information on prevention and intervention for children, teens, and adults to respond to bullying. Under the resources tab, Get Help Now, provides specific strategies and tools to inform and guide individuals to help end or prevent bullying.

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