Center for School Mental Health Resources

Issue Briefs focus on critical themes in the school mental health field.

Policy Briefs & Legislation Updates focus on specific policy issues, and present alternatives and make recommendations regarding those issues.

School Mental Health Capacity Building Partnership Resources

Resource Packets provide guidance on specific topics that are relevant to providing mental health services in schools.

System of Care Resources are intended to strengthen School Mental Health/System of Care connections.

Critical Issues Meeting Notes summarize the bi-annual meetings the CSMH holds to discuss issues that are critical to the advancement of the field. 

Newsletters that were published by the Center for School Mental Health can be viewed here. 

Articles that are authored by the CSMH staff on topics related to school mental health are available.

Trauma and Loss Resources were developed in response to the VA Tech tragedy, but are intended for any individual, group, or organization who may be struggling with the death of other individuals due to mass violence.

Dealing with Natural and Man-Made Disasters provides links to a number of free resources on helping youth, families, and communities cope with disasters.

Communities of Practice: A New Approach to Solving Complex Educational Problems, a guidebook to the IDEA Partnership's "Communities of Practice" approach to address and solving special education issues.

Training Curriculum: School Mental Health and Foster Care The CSMH, with funding from the Maryland Mental Health Transformation Grant, developed a training curriculum entitled "School Mental Health and Foster Care: A Training Curriculum for Parents, School-based Clinicians, Educators, and Child Welfare staff. Please click here to view the training manual and powerpoints for seven modules.

Summary of Recognized Evidence-Based Programs Implemented by Expanded School Mental Health Programs (CSMH): The list of evidence-based programs generated for this table were identified as part of the Center for School Mental Health’s National Survey of Expanded School Mental Health Programs (2007).  152 ESMH Programs from across the country responded to the survey.  Only evidence-based programs that received at least one recognition on one of ten evidence-based program registries (see the CSMH's Summary of Evidence Based Program Registries) were included in the table.

Selected Swine Flu Resources, a collection of links related to the Swine Flu (H1N1) virus relevant to school mental health stakeholders.