The Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention project is a Consortium of Schools that seek to build, implement, and evaluate evidence-based practices that increase awareness of the risk factors associated with mental illness, challenges that prevent children and families from accessing services, and negative impacts when mental health needs are not met or inadequately met (e.g., substance use, school failure and dropout, poverty, homelessness, incarceration, suicide). Early detection combined with appropriate treatment changes a child’s trajectory from severe mental illness to one of wellness and full participation in school and community life (e.g., participation in workforce, successful relationships, and prolong social and economic prosperity).
From May 2018 to June 2019, 10 schools across California will implement a program to:
Identify mental health risk factors and needs of their student population
Equip school educators with the knowledge to recognize and appropriately respond to unmet needs
Engage community partners to support school’s prevention and early intervention efforts
Connect with families an involve them in designing strategies that are best suited for their cultural and language needs, and
Work with school districts to ensure that schools are equipped with on-campus resources to address mental health needs and integrate strategies into curricula
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Monday – Thursday
8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Friday
8:00 am – 3:00 pm