Services/Resources Provided:
ToolKit: Focus will be on the red and yellow zone kids and developing useful materials. Many of the materials already have been developed as part of other initiatives. The toolkit will be organized in a notebook and also the contents posted to a website http://www.msmha.org
Crisis Management Resource: MHA will gather additional resources on crisis management and elaborate on what already exists. This is separated from other toolkit resources due to it being a specific grant mandate. This will be a section included in the ToolKit notebook and posted to the website.
Newsletter: A newsletter will be distributed quarterly from the MSMHA to all five school systems and their School Mental Health Integration Teams to provide links and articles regarding key mental health resources. The first newsletter will be distributed in December and will put a spotlight on the MSMHA.
SMHQAQ /Linkage Protocol Assessment/ School Staff Mental Health Referral Questionnaires: These assessment tools have been developed and will be administered to the five school systems.
Training: CSMHA will lead this training focuses on mental health needs of students and their families and how to access care. Dates for training will be January 25, 2006, May 2006, July 17, 2006 (PBIS Summer Institute), and October, 2006. A SHIP session will occur the week of July 31, 2006. The model of training will be a train the trainer model in which PBIS coaches are trained and provided resources to share with the schools they serve in their community. Training will focus on improving the ability of staff to make appropriate mental health referrals, enhancing mental health knowledge and basic skills to use with students, and improving school-mental health system integration in PBIS schools.
Family Involvement: The Maryland Coalition of Families for Children’s Mental Health will take the lead and will provide guidance, training, and oversight to family members on the School Mental Health Integration Teams.
Demonstration Initiative: Three schools in each district (elementary, middle, and high school) will participate in this special initiative designed to intensively explore issues of effective school-mental health system integration based on a systematic framework for school mental health quality assessment and improvement developed by the CSMHA through a National Institute of Mental Health grant. The schools will be identified by Directors of Student Services in the five districts. These schools (through the use of a PBIS team or student support team) will identify areas for improvement in their mental health efforts and will be provided with more intensive resources and technical assistance from the CSMHA to advance their practices.
Website: MSDE has created a website, http://www.msmha.org, with information about the Maryland integration grant and links to other Alliance partner websites. All resources developed for the partnership will be placed on this website.
Multi Scale Learning System: The CSMHA will take the lead in connecting to national partners – the IDEA partnership, other IDEA partnership states (Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina), and to other national centers and initiatives connected to mental health in schools (Mental Health-Education Integration Consortium, Center for School-Based Mental Health, Center for the Advancement of Mental Health Practices in Schools, Johns Hopkins Center for Prevention and Early Intervention). The information and resources form these national connections will be disseminated for use in Maryland.
Evaluation: The CSHMA will be the lead, and will use the questionnaires and documentation of activity associated with the project to help with the evaluation of the project. | 
