Be Counted! Shape the Future of School Mental Health!
The Center for School Mental Health is pleased to launch the National School Mental Health Census and Performance Measures via the online platform the School Health Assessment and Performance Evaluation System (www.theSHAPEsystem.com). The SHAPE System is a free, interactive system designed to improve school mental health accountability, excellence, and sustainability. The SHAPE System is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau effort to expand and improve the quality of comprehensive school mental health systems in the United States.
The SHAPE system allows users to:
· Be Counted
Registering to create an account with the SHAPE system allows your school or district to be counted in the National Quality Initiative Census of School Mental Health Systems
· Rate Your Performance
Self-assess your school mental health system’s quality and sustainability based on national standardized performance measures just for school mental health
· View and Print Customized Reports
Obtain printable reports on your system’s performance in quality and sustainability areas that you can bring back to your school teams with recommendations and resources for improvement.
· Get Free Resources
Browse a comprehensive resource library of PDFs, videos, guides, and weblinks on all aspects of school mental health programming.
Register your school or district today at the link below and be counted in this important initiative!
Community-Partnered School Behavioral Health Modules
The Center for School Mental Health hosts a free professional development online training series titledCommunity-Partnered School Behavioral Health Modules. These modules focus on supporting student social, emotional, behavioral and academic progress via a family-school-community partnership approach to school behavioral health. These modules provide a range of strategies, resources, and tools necessary to establish, maintain, and expand effective student behavioral health.
Specifically, this course includes information on:
· Definition and best practices to establish, maintain, and sustain an effective community-partnered school behavioral health program;
· Strategies to equip behavioral health providers with tools to understand and integrate into school culture, including information on teacher consultation, teaming, and school language and policies;
· Strategies for behavioral health providers to support and monitor progress and outcomes of individual student behavioral health and academic functioning;
· Best practices for collecting and using school behavioral health data to conduct quality assessment and improvement and engage in data-driven decision making;
· Practical strategies, funding resources and policy efforts to promote the expansion of community–partnered school behavioral health; and
· Special topics related to community-partnered school behavioral health service provision, including early childhood behavioral health and psychiatry services in schools.
The training consists of a series of informational and instructional modules for school behavioral health clinicians, educators, student support staff, evaluators, administrators and program leaders at local, district, and state levels. Professionals can view training modules, download informative resource materials, view video tips from experts, and explore related links to other organizations and programs, all from one central site. To access the Community-Partnered School Behavioral Health Modules, please visit www.mdbehavioralhealth.com.
The development of the Community-Partnered School Behavioral Health platform and modules was funded by the Health Resources and Service Administration via two mechanisms, the Center for School Mental Health (U45MC00174) and Graduate Psychology Education Program (D40HP25720), and by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Maryland Behavioral Health Administration via the 1915(c) Home and Community- Based Waiver Program Management, Workforce Development and Evaluation (OPASS# 13-10954G/M00B3400369).
For more information, please contact Katie Shannahan at kshannah@psych.umaryland.edu
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