Check out CASEL’s new Program Guide that has updated features to select the best evidence-based SEL programs for your school’s needs.
This resource from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) highlights the differences between stress and trauma by providing examples that might lead to each.
This resource from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), available in both English and Spanish, provides examples of experiences that may lead to acute, chronic, and complex trauma in children.
Findings from a recent research study conducted by The Learning Policy Institute (LPI) have found that newly funded community schools saw positive student outcomes regarding test scores, attendance, and reduced suspensions for all students, with particularly strong gains among historically underserved students.
The Central East MHTTC in collaboration with the National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH) offers a school mental health webinar series with a focus on advancing high quality, sustainable school mental health from a multi-tiered system of support, trauma-sensitive, culturally responsive, and equitable lens.
The 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention is a bold new 10-year, comprehensive, whole-of-society approach to suicide prevention that provides concrete recommendations for addressing gaps in the suicide prevention field.
Schools are prioritizing students’ mental health, and there are many tools and resources to choose from. CDC created this action guide as a place to start. It can help school and district leaders build on what they are already doing to promote students’ mental health and find new strategies to fill in gaps.
These 2024 editions contain major updates and an and easy-to-follow format complete with action steps, best practices, examples from the field, and more.
In March of 2023, the U.S. Department of Education released Guiding Principles for Creating Safe, Inclusive, Supportive, and Fair School Climates for students and school staff, featuring specific recommendations for evidence-based practices that allow students to learn, grow, and be successful.
The Office of the U.S. Surgeon General released a general advisory report in May 2023 on public health concerns related to youth’s use of social media. This report on Social Media and Youth Mental Health includes research on the positive and negative impacts of social media use on youth health and well-being. Read about what policymakers, technology companies, parents and caregivers, youth, and researchers can do to create safer and healthier online environments for children.