The Screening Readiness Checklist is a resource that allows school-based teams facilitate, monitor and problem solve the screening to intervening implementation process. School team can review the content throughout this readiness checklist to inform specific processes needed to implement universal screening and subsequent intervention implementation.
Consultation Resource Guide for School Leadership Teams
The Consultation Resource Guide is intended to provide a step-by-step outline of all activities necessary for building a screening to intervening infrastructure within school settings.
This guide summarizes the current state of research and practice related to universal screening for social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes. It also provides practical and defensible recommendations.
The primary purpose of this project is to develop and validate a social, emotional, and behavioral risk screener for early childhood. The assessment will be an online and application-based universal screening system available in both English and Spanish. It will be aligned with the Social, Academic, and Emotional Behavior Risk Screener (SAEBRS), a universal screener for K–12 settings that has been adopted in all 50 states, with the aim of supporting transition planning between early childhood and K–12 settings as well as informing intervention.
An EducationWeek article from May 2023 on the challenges of implementing mental health screenings in schools. Katie Eklund is interviewed as part of this report.
Article from The Conversation in June 2022 by Nathaniel von der Embse. In this article, von der Embse describes how universal mental health screenings to identify and address mental health issues in students. Identifying mental health concerns early can help prevent school violence.
The purpose of this project is to develop and validate a multi-informant decisional assessment system (MIDAS) to integrate and use multiple sources of data for accurate and efficient identification of social-emotional and behavioral (SEB) concerns in middle school students.
University of South Florida (USF) article from July 2021 highlights 2 projects funded by the Institute for Education Sciences (IES). One of these projects is led by Collaborative investigator Nathaniel von der Embse. This $2 million grant is entitled, “Project MIDAS: Development of a Multi-Informant Decisional Assessment System.”
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