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First Focus on Children, 2023
Research tells a bleak story of U.S. children and youth with unmet mental health needs (anxiety, depression, eating disorders, etc.). One-in-five children and adolescents experiences a mental health condition in a given year. One-in-ten high school students attempted suicide one or more times during the past year. And 59% of youth with major…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Child Health, Mental Health
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Dusseault, Bree; Michel-Herf, Nadja – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2022
As the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools across the country in 2020, Washington state's emergent charter sector was growing. During this time, charter enrollment was growing by 28% each year, on average, and the number of schools in operation doubled from eight to 16. The new schools that opened were planned long before the pandemic. But even…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, COVID-19, Pandemics, Enrollment
Williams, Avis – Educational Leadership, 2022
When the pandemic took hold, the superintendent of Selma City Schools realized the strategic plan her district had in place wasn't enough. She shares the collective steps her team took to embrace change and rethink what school could look like from the ground up.
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Crisis Management, Superintendents
Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center, 2022
This briefing paper explores Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) policies and practices that state early intervention (Part C) programs may consider implementing to meet the social-emotional and mental health needs of infants and toddlers in the context of relationships with their parents and other caregivers.
Descriptors: Mental Health, Social Development, Emotional Development, Infants
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Kuban, Adam J.; Purcell, Jennifer W.; Jones, Brytnie D. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2020
The purpose of this reflective essay is to encourage the discussion of community-engaged scholarship (CES) that does not progress as planned. Insufficient attention is given to lessons gleaned from missteps and outright failures experienced by scholars in the field, which results in a paucity of documented cases and recommendations for…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Faculty Development, Reflective Teaching, Scholarship
Cohen, Julie; Stark, Deborah Roderick – ZERO TO THREE, 2020
This article describes some of the extraordinary accomplishments of the second cohort of states to participate in the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Financing Policy Project (IECMH-FPP). The purpose of the IECMHFPP is to support states' advancement of IECMH assessment, diagnosis, and treatment policies that will contribute to the healthy…
Descriptors: Mental Health, State Policy, Infants, Young Children
Gilpin, Ansley; Mennen, Ferol; Pakulak, Eric; Sommer, Teresa Eckrich; Dwyer, Kathleen M.; Cannon, Erin; Bell, Theodore; Boxmeyer, Caroline; Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay; Chor, Elise; DeCaro, Jason; Dela Cruz, Kenn Lacsamana; Giuliano, Ryan; Gomsrud, Melissa; Karns, Christina; Klein, Scott; Lochman, John; Longoria, Zayra; Molina, Abigail Palmer; Monro, William; Neville, Helen; O'Neil, Lauren; Reynolds, Mary Margaret; Sabol, Terri J.; Sclafani, Marisa; Tighe, Lauren A. – Administration for Children & Families, 2020
This brief introduces four research projects testing promising interventions funded under the Head Start University Partnerships (HSUP): Dual-Generation Approaches1 grant program. Two-generation approaches are typically designed to address problems associated with poverty by combining child-focused services with adult-focused services. Head Start…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Education, Early Intervention, Childhood Needs
Mitchell, Susan; Fonseca, Manuela; LaFave, Allison – Preschool Development and Expansion Grant Technical Assistance (PDG TA), 2016
There is growing unease about suspension and expulsion of children at the preschool level. Preschoolers are expelled at three times the rate of K-12 students (Gilliam, 2005). Boys--particularly African-American boys--comprise a disproportionate number of these cases, a fact that has caused concern among parents, policymakers, and advocates alike.…
Descriptors: Suspension, Expulsion, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
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Keim, Michael A.; Cobia, Debra – Alabama Counseling Association Journal, 2010
Until recently, there has been little guidance in the professional literature with respect to counseling minors outside of the school setting. Although most authors suggest referring to state statutes for legal limits of counseling practice, little research exists describing these requirements in Alabama. The purpose of this literature and…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Confidentiality, Ethics, Literature Reviews
Miller, Deborah, Ed. – 1980
A National Council on Social Work Education project to develop, test, and evaluate models for continuing education in five social work education programs is described. Its aim is to demonstrate how the education and practice systems can work together, and to focus on mental health care delivery system issues as a whole. Five pilot projects in…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Educational Innovation, Experimental Programs