Setting up a mental health program in schools
- Working with the community to identify opportunities for collaboration
- Identifying needs on campus
- Identifying big rocks of mental health program initiatives
- Creating a vision/mission for the program
- Long term planning for program development
Developmental Stages
- Typical and atypical behaviors at each stage
- Concerning behaviors and approaches to address (how parents/teachers and other caring adults can support youth)
- Ways parents can engage the school at the different stages
Suicide Prevention (for or about youth)
- Key triggers, signs and responses
- Crisis response interventions for school, family and youth