Mental Health

Resource Guide to Wraparound [External link]

Welcome to the Resource Guide to Wraparound—a collection of articles, tools, and resources that represent the expertise, experience, and shared work of the members of the National Wraparound Initiative.

Assertive Community Treatment Summary [External link]

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is an evidence-based practice that improves outcomes for people with severe mental illness who are most at-risk of psychiatric crisis and hospitalization and involvement in the criminal justice system.

Article: Integration of Education and Mental Health [External link]

Education and mental health integration will be advanced when the goal of mental health includes effective schooling and the goal of effective schools includes the healthy functioning of students. To build a solid foundation for this reciprocal agenda, especially within the zeitgeist of recent educational reforms, a change in the fundamental framework within which school mental health is conceptualized is needed.

A Framework for Successful Schools [External link]

A framework that seeks to reinforce the interdisciplinary, collaborative, and cohesive approach that is required to create and sustain genuinely safe, supportive schools that meet the needs of the whole child.

School-based mental health: An empirical guide for decision-makers [External link]

As we enter the new millennium, there is increasing concern about the growing number of children and adolescents who experience difficulties facing the challenges of development and who succumb to the adverse effects of emotional disturbance. This increase in the need to support America’s youth occurs in a context of system transformation aimed at improving the effectiveness of services and increasing the capacity to serve all children who are in need.
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