Promoting Mental Health in School Settings: From early childhood through high school

School based mental health challenges:

• School - family - community disconnect
• Variable use of data-based decision-making
• Variable use of evidence-based practices
• Poor implementation fidelity
• Reactive exclusionary consequences
• Non-evidence-based practices
• Special education v. mental health v. general education

How is this for covering all the bases?  Start early, but don't give up. There are promising practices that can be employed at any educational level. -gw