Building and Sustaining Professional Pipelines: Practice Brief and Discussion Guide
This practice brief provides a number of effective strategies to recruit school mental health professionals into graduate training programs, as well as ways school leaders can recruit and hire high quality school mental health professionals into K-12 schools.
Retaining School Mental Health Professionals: A Framework for Best Practice Implementation
The purpose of this practice brief is to describe a framework school district and school leaders can use to retain School Mental Health Professionals (SMHPs) with two dimensions. One, best practice components that address challenges SMHPs are experiencing that are leading them to leave their positions. Two, an implementation plan.
School Mental Health Professionals’ Roles within MTSS: Practice Brief and Discussion Guide
This practice review for school mental health providers outlines a new MTSS approach specifically designed to enhance student mental health.
REP Resilient Families Handbook (Spanish)
This Resilient Families process is designed to engage parents and caregivers as co-equal partners in supporting their child. REP implementers work to support parents and caregivers in developing tools that promote their child’s social-emotional skills. Finally, the handbook helps to establish a context for families and educators to collaborate as they coordinate support for their child.
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.
Mental-health Assessment and Support Cost Out Tool (MASCOT)
The Mental-Health Assessment and Support Cost Out Tool (MASCOT) compares the cost of universal screening procedures and subsequent supportive services to the costs of typical school discipline (i.e., Office Discipline Referrals, Disciplinary Meeting). The MASCOT utilizes the realistic salaries, intervention costs and disciplinary actions to simulate both the humanistic and financial cost to supporting students’ behavioral success.
Intervention Selection Profile (ISP) – Function Scoring Tool
This scoring tool calculates the average percentage of disruptive behavior as well as the average percentage of the four behavior consequences. You can print and share this resource with the student’s support team.
Intervention Selection Profile (ISP) – Function Implementation Guide
This implementation guide provides information on how to prepare for ISP-Function use, collect ISP-Function data, and use it to inform intervention selection.
Intervention Selection Profile (ISP) – Function Observation Form
This ISP-Function Observation Form is used to monitor student disruptive behavior and four possible behavioral consequences. Observations should be conducted during class periods in which the behavior is most frequent. School staff who will utilize the ISP-Function should complete the training module before use.
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.