About This Lesson
Across the United States, children’s mental health outcomes are trending in troublesome directions. As mandatory reporters of child maltreatment, concerns about mental health prompt many educators’ reports to child protective services agencies. But mandatory reporting rarely addresses root causes and serious needs. Indeed, students’ and caregivers’ struggles with mental health rarely put children in imminent harm.
This research and action brief with Mental Health America explores school-based early mental health intervention and reviews examples that center the vulnerable, from Meriden, Conn. to Minneapolis Public Schools and across the state of Kansas.
