Tools for Schools & Mental Health Centers

Schools and Community Mental Health Center Referral Protocols

• Please modify this tool as needed.  It can be used to work with your school and local community mental health center to make referrals more timely and increase outcomes for students and families. It includes steps for working between schools and community centers, a family friendly process to integrate within your school Response to Intervention Plan, and a referral form.
  • Building Bridges Referral Protocol Introduction & RtI/SOC Flowchart.
  • Example Referral Form and Narrative.

 

Tools for Communities

The Community ToolBox

• The Community Tool Box is the world's largest resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. It is a practical, step-by-step guidance in community-building skills.

 

A Guide to Planning and Implementing Cultural Competence: Organizational Self-Assessment

• This guide is intended to help an organization plan and implement an organization-wide self assessment on cultural competence. The actual assessment tool is also available, see below. (Promoting cultural diversity and cultural competency self assessment checklist for personnel providing services and supports to children with disabilities and special health needs and their families)

 

Tools for Everyone

A Guide for Using the Cultural and Linguistic Competence policy Assessment Instrument

• After an organization has done the assessment on cultural competence, this guide can be useful for developing an action to improve the cultural competence of the organization.  The guide contains extensive resources for an organization to reference during its work on cultural competence.  It includes sample consent form for focus groups, and a sample focus group protocol.

National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information

• Searchable database on alcohol and drug information in the form of tip sheets, CDs, posters, brochures, etc.  You can search by audience, drug, or issue.  Many of the items are in English and Spanish.

Colorado LINKS Repository for Systems Transformation

• The Colorado LINKS Repository for Systems Transformation (ReST) contains resources for a community or state agency to undertake cross-system transformation efforts on behalf of children, youth, and their families and communities. 

Family & Youth Involvement: A Workbook for Policy & Governance Boards

• This workbook is designed to expand knowledge of how to engage family and consumer representatives on your board or committee. It is succinct and practical, with overviews, discussion guides and checklists, with sample bylaws, reimbursement forms, and other materials.  It contains tips and tools for preparing for family and youth involvement on a policymaking or governance board, recruiting and retaining families and youth on a board, and gathering family and youth input outside of board meetings.

 

Tools for Families and Schools

Building Bridges Tip Sheets

These fact sheets contain basic information about some common mental health disorders, a list of the more common symptoms, a summary of the educational implications of the disorder, instructional strategies and classroom accomodations, and further resources.

English Tip Sheets

• Attention Deficit Disorder
• Anxiety Disorder
• Bi-Polar Disorder
• Building School Teams
• Conduct Disorder
• Depression
• Managing Challenging Behaviors
• Mandated Reporting
• Mental Health Stigma
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• School Transitions
• Substance Use Disorders

Spanish Tip Sheets

In progress--please check back!

A Guide to Planning and Implementing Cultural Competence: Organizational Self-Assessment

• This guide is intended to help an organization plan and implement an organization-wide self assessment on cultural competence. The actual assessment tool is also available, see below. (Promoting cultural diversity and cultural competency self assessment checklist for personnel providing services and supports to children with disabilities and special health needs and their families)

A Parent's Guide to Substance Abuse Prevention

• Communication strategies and awareness for parents on drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and the teen brain.

Anxiety Disorders in Children

• Overview of anxiety disorders including Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive-compulsive, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Separation Anxiety, Panic Disorder, Phobia.

Behavior Contracting and Data Monitoring For Classroom Teachers

• Classroom goals following PBIS triangle, universal classroom management system and strategies, STAR Behavior Log, ABC’s of behavior defined, behavioral principles of risk aversion and anchoring, targeted level classroom strategies, talking with students about STAR chart, intensive behavior modification, data based decision making.

Breaking the Silence

• Lesson plans, games, and posters created to break the silence about mental illness in our schools.

Children of Divorce

• Divorce in the classroom: data, symptoms, adjustment; divorce and diagnosis; grief and loss; regression and progression; latency effect, reactions and needs of children; academics and divorce; teacher issues; legal issues; interventions.

Cultural Proficiency Continuum

• Six points along the cultural proficiency continuum that indicate unique ways of perceiving and responding to differences

Educating Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the General Education Classroom-Elementary Level

• Diagnostic criteria and differential diagnosis; verbal and non-verbal communication; social interactions; restrictive and repetitive interest based methodologies and educational focus

Mental Health Matrix: Assessment Tools for School Mental Health Capacity Building

• National school assessment tools: This is a grid which provides links to self-assessment, tools, interview questions, surveys and tips from Institute of Behavioral Research - Organizational change assessment tool, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; School-Community Partnerships; Coalition for Community Schools; National Center for Cultural Competence; National Institute of Mental Health.  Includes assessment tools for school capacity building and planning information on the following topics: school readiness, needs assessment, gaps analysis, financing self-assessment, collaboration & stakeholder involvement, cultural competency, quality improvement, surveillance.

Mood Disorders in Children

• Depression signs and symptoms in the classroom; mania and signs and symptoms in the classroom; interventions, adjustments and accommodations for the classroom; suicidal ideation; warning signs in the classroom and assessment; self-Injury: definition, methods and prevalence' physical and emotional signs; what to do and what not to do; and school and community actions.

Motivating Unmotivated Students

• Basic beliefs and tenants; emphasize effort; goal sheets and contracts; celebrations and certificates; success: benefits and positive affirmations; student goal setting; mistakes happen; engaging students; PEP Method: Privacy, Eye Contact Proximity; family engagement and relationship building.

Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools Online Workshops: Drug & Violence Prevention Web Courses for Schools

• Downloadable on-line continuing education workshops on gangs, truancy, bullying, meaningful student participation, prevention programs

Overview of Childhood Mental Health Issues

• Red flags, warning signs and of common childhood issues

Overview: A Classroom of Difference

• Lesson plans and teacher training to address diversity in pre K - 12th grade

School-wide Benchmarks of Quality Team Member Rating Form

• A sample form used by school PBIS Teams in Florida to assess interventions and quality of PBIS.

Stigma: Understanding the Impact of Prejudice and Discrimination on People with Mental health and Substance Use Problems

• Overview of facts instead of myths about mental illness and substance abuse.

The Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT)

• The Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT) can help school districts, schools, and others conduct a clear, complete, and consistent analysis of health education curricula based on the National Health Education Standards and CDC’s Characteristics of Effective Health Education Curricula.
• Alcohol and Other Drugs; Healthy Eating; Mental and Emotional Health; Personal Health and Wellness; Physical Activity; Safety; Sexual Health; Tobacco; Violence Prevention

Time to Talk Kit

• With ideas on how to start talking, scripts on what to say, and tips for answering tough questions, this kit can help you keep the child in your life healthy and drug-free.

Understanding Oppositional Defiant Disorder in the School Setting

• Strategies for Teachers working with students with Oppositional Defiance Disorder: Academic and Behavioral

 

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