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Childs, Tasha M.; Brown, Elizabeth Levine; Brown, Naomi; Iachini, Aidyn L.; Phillippo, Kate; Galib, Linda; Parker, Audra; Fujimoto, Ken – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: Understanding teachers' appraisals of student wellness services and supports during COVID-19 is essential to strengthening services and improving student health outcomes. This mixed-method study aimed to examine US PK-12 teachers' appraisals of student wellness services and supports during COVID-19. Methods: This study focuses on…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Wellness, COVID-19, Pandemics
Healthy Schools Campaign, 2023
In May 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released new guidance on school Medicaid that is a clear victory for school health and student health. It affirms that states have flexibility in their school-based Medicaid program to allow school districts to bill Medicaid for health services delivered to all Medicaid-enrolled…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Public Policy, Federal Aid, School Districts
Cobb, Hannah – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has negative effects on children, adolescents, and adults. Despite these effects, information about the nature of mental health concerns and services provided to address these concerns by elementary school counselors is unknown. The purpose of this generic qualitative study was to examine mental health concerns elementary…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Services, Elementary School Students, Self Control
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Levin, Stephanie; Espinoza, Daniel; Griffith, Michael – Learning Policy Institute, 2022
Approximately 1.3 million K-12 public school students across the United States were identified as experiencing homelessness in 2019-20. In all cases, the stress, instability, trauma, and school mobility created by homelessness increase risks to physical, social, and emotional health and to educational engagement and achievement. Districts play an…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, At Risk Students
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, 2021
At the start of the unprecedented 2020-2021 school year, many schools prioritized or re-prioritized social and emotional learning (SEL) to foster the competencies and learning environments that students and adults need to reunite, renew, and thrive. Entering the second half of the school year, many students will make new transitions -- from…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Educational Change, Student Adjustment, Distance Education
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Wegmann, Kate M.; Powers, Joelle D.; Swick, Danielle C.; Watkins, Charity S. – School Social Work Journal, 2017
Untreated mental health needs can have serious negative consequences for the life outcomes of children, including greater difficulty in performing well academically. Elementary schools have a unique opportunity to meet the mental health needs of students through early intervention. One model for the implementation of mental health services in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mental Health, Health Needs, Mental Disorders
Hunt Institute, 2022
This report is the results of an online survey of likely 2022 voters, conducted August 30-September 12, 2022. The data show that voters and parents alike have a clear vision of their priorities for education and schools, school funding, and parental involvement. [This report was prepared with Lake Research Partners. For "Across the Aisle:…
Descriptors: Parent Surveys, Online Surveys, Parent Attitudes, Voting
National Association of School Psychologists, 2015
This research summary "Enhancing Conditions for Learning" provides information on: (1) social and emotional learning; (2) bullying; (3) school climate; (4) wellness; (5) family-school partnerships; and (6) school mental health services.
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Mental Health, Health Services, Bullying
Estes, Elizabeth; Davis, Jeff; Shilton, Adrienne; Stoner-Mertz, Christine; Funk, Michael; Eisenberg, Lisa; Weller, Teneh; Knecht, Richard S.; Kelley, Veronica; Kain, Lara; Peck, Jennifer; Rosario, Aleah; Lombardo, Michael; Kimner, Hayin; Jacobs, Melissa; Dickey, Amanda; Epstein, Ken; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Alcala, Lupita; Caparas, Ruthie; Coley, Aressa; Justus, Marianne; Willis, Jason; Larsen, Karen – WestEd, 2022
This field guide is a first step by a collaborative of California child-serving education, health, and social service experts and leaders to further California's current efforts toward one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving system. The guide includes guidance for both local education agencies (LEAs) and state leaders,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Guides, School Districts, Public Officials
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Coplan, Robert J.; Arbeau, Kimberley A. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2008
Shy children are wary in the face of new social situations and perceived social evaluation. In this regard, the transition to kindergarten may represent a particularly challenging task for shy children. In this review, we explore the kindergarten classroom as a particularly stressful context for shy children. We examine the adjustment difficulties…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Student Adjustment, Kindergarten, Shyness
Girio, Erin L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The majority of youth in need of mental health services do not receive intervention as many are not identified as having a problem or their families experience practical or attitudinal barriers that interfere with service utilization. The school environment provides a unique point of access to reach all children, yet this setting has been…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Health Services, Intervention, Parents
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Frazier, Stacy L.; Abdul-Adil, Jaleel; Atkins, Marc S.; Gathright, Tamara; Jackson, Maudette – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
University-community partnerships are widely recognized as critical to the success of community research and advocacy work but difficult to form and sustain. This article will describe a unique facet of that partnership, namely the collaboration between mental health clinicians and community consultants, a partnership that our data suggest was a…
Descriptors: Health Services, Mental Health Programs, Parent Participation, Mental Health
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Sayal, Kapil – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2004
Objective: To examine the relative contributions of symptom severity, functional impairment, and parental burden in predicting the use of specialist child mental health services over a 4-year period. Method: Between 1999 and 2000, parental Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires were completed on a community-based sample of 1,168 (40% response…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Severity (of Disability), Specialists, Psychiatry
Buck, Beverly; Baker, Robin – Colorado Children's Campaign, 2013
The "Colorado Children's Budget" presents and analyzes investments and spending trends during the past five state fiscal years on services that benefit children. The "Children's Budget" focuses mainly on state investment and spending, with some analysis of federal investments and spending to provide broader context of state…
Descriptors: Budgets, Expenditures, Trend Analysis, Children
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Trout, Alexandra L.; Ryan, Joseph B.; La Vigne, Steven P.; Epstein, Michael H. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2003
As the field of mental health services shifts its focus to early intervention, the need to develop valid and reliable measures of young children's behavioral functioning is clear. Traditional assessment instruments have focused on deficits, problems, and pathologies to the exclusion of strengths and competencies. However, assessing child strengths…
Descriptors: Health Services, Early Intervention, Mental Health Programs, Validity