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This page lists a variety of resources related to curriculum, instruction and teaching/learning about mental health, mental illness, stigma, addictions and related issues.
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Schools, with the assistance of their Gatehouse Project critical friend, looked for strategies to address these areas and the programs that they wanted to work on. The aim was to locate policies, programs and practices that had been proven to be successful elsewhere and adapt these to the school's particular context. The UCLA based Center for Mental Health and Schools has done work related to this role; see: Organization Facilitators: A Key Change Agent for Systemic School and Community Changes.
The NSW School-Link initiative is a ground-breaking approach to improving mental health care for adolescents. It provides a framework and structure to support child and adolescent mental health services and schools to work collaboratively to promote mental health, prevent mental health problems and facilitate evidence-based identification, management and support of students with mental health problems. For more information see: www.health.nsw.gov.au/pubs/s/pdf/schoollink_summ.pdf.
Additional programs, resources and initiatives
These additional programs, resources and initiatives of interest have been extracted from a featured article of a past issue of the School Health Report, produced on a regular basis for the Canadian School Health Knowledge Network by the Canadian Association for School Health. An adaptation of this article will also be featured as a special “Health and Learning Supplement” to the July/August issue of the Canadian Journal of Public Health (see www.cpha.ca/schoolhealth for an online version).
The Role of the School in Promoting Mental Health produced by the Canadian Association for School Health and its related checklist provide an excellent summary and a tool to support assessment and planning efforts. (http://www.safehealthyschools.org/mental_health/mental_health.htm).
The Dare to Dream Program from the Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health provides an opportunity for Ontario youth (18 years of age and under) to get involved in mental health awareness activities. If you can come up with a creative idea for a project, then we want to support you to make this happen. Successful applicants are awarded up to $1000 (for individuals) and $5000 (for groups) to do a project that promotes mental health awareness.
The Canadian Psychological Association, in conjunction with the Canadian Association of School Psychologists, approved a proposal to launch a Canadian version of Head Start (a program that promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children) called
CANSTART.
The Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation (www.cprf.ca) produces When Something's Wrong - Ideas for Teachers, a quick reference guide of useful classroom strategies to help elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators understand and assist students with mood, behaviour or thinking problems. A related reference for parents is also available. Both are available in English and French. The Canadian Mental Health Association (www.cmha.ca):
Information about Children and Youth
http://www.ontario.cmha.ca/content/about_mental_illness/children_and_youth.asp includes a series of relevant links including:
- Mental Health and High School is a CMHA National website and handbook for high school students, their parents and educators, to help them understand and cope with a mental illness or other mental health problems.
- My Life – It's Cool to Talk About campaign from CMHA focuses on youth mental health and is designed to encourage teenagers to talk about their mental health concerns and issues before serious problems arise.
The Psychololgy Foundation of Canada has a series of parent education programs including:
- Kids Have Stress Too! High School: On the Frontline of Mental Health a feature article on the Canadian Health Network about ways to identify and support students who have a mental illness or mental health problems.
- Talking about Mental Illness from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health includes teacher and community guides for developing an awareness program for youth.
- Mind Your Mind is an award winning Canadian site for youth by youth, committed to reducing the stigma often associated with reaching out for help.
- Youth Net/Youth Net/Réseau Ado (YN/RA) Ottawa is a bilingual regional mental health promotion and intervention program run by youth, for youth. Réseau Ado/Youth Net (RA/YN) Ottawa est un programme de promotion et d’intervention bilingue en santé mentale qui est géré pour les jeunes et par les jeunes.
Aboriginal Youth Network is a Canada wide network connecting all Aboriginal youth. Its ‘health centre’ and list of resources may be helpful.
Out of the Shadows at Last ("The Kirby Report"; www.parl.gc.ca/39/1/ParlBus/commbus/senate/com-e/SOCI-E/rep-e/rep02may06-e.htm) What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) from the United Sates collects, screens, and identifies studies of effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies) including those relevant to whole school approaches to mental health.
Psychosis Sucks (http://www.psychosissucks.ca/epi/) is an initiative of a BC based Early Psychosis Intervention program that provides the best assistance available to young people who have recently developed psychosis as well as providing education to a wide variety of people, including other mental health professionals, schools, community agencies and the general public.
The Promising Practices Network (PPN) features summaries of programs and practices that are proven to improve outcomes for children. All of the information on the site has been carefully screened for scientific rigor, relevance, and clarity.
Programs such as: Counselors Care (CARE); Seattle Social Development Project and Social Decision Making / Problem Solving are school based programs of relevance.
Young Minds (UK; http://www.youngminds.org.uk/) is the national charity committed to improving the mental health of all babies, children and young people. Their work includes: Parents' Information Service; Publications and the YoungMinds Magazine; training and support through their Consultancy and Training Service for practitioners in all agencies who work with children; influencing decision makers to improve services for young people. Their info centre includes background information on a full range of mental health issues from positively promoting mental health to working with young people who self-harm.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (www.samhsa.gov) offers a variety of resources and links to relevant programs such as: Safe Schools/Healthy Students, Make Time to Listen,Take Time to Talk 15+ designed to give practical guidance to parents and caregivers and the SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center at http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov.
Search Institute's 40 Developmental Assets (www.search-institute.org) framework focuses on building strengths in young people and meeting the needs of the whole child or adolescent in the process of promoting learning and school success. For more on an assets-based approach see: Promoting Positives Through A Developmental Assets Approach.
Taking Care: Child and Youth Mental Health was produced by the Knowledge Network and funded by the BC government as part of their Child and Youth Mental Health Plan. It is an educational and multimedia resource that sheds light on the issue of child and youth mental health and offers practical tools to understand the challenges and access support. It addresses depression, anxiety and psychosis.
Autism: The Road Back is an online, interactive documentary also produced by the Knowledge Network. Topics include: diagnosis, treatment, funding, school transition and much more.
| The Child and Youth Health Network for Eastern Ontario has developed a universal mental health promotion program for grade 7 students. The Child and Youth Health Network for Eastern Ontario has produced Healthy Transitions: Promoting Resilience and Mental Health in Young Adolescents, a universal mental health promotion / early identification / intervention program for young adolescents. It aims to give students the opportunity to enhance knowledge, attitudes and skills important for resilience and mental health. The program has been generously funded by the Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health at CHEO. It is available in both English and French, and can be downloaded free of charge http://www.child-youth-health.net. For the French version, simply select the French portion of the website. It can be found under Recherche et Publications, and is titled Transitions saines. |
Surveillance and Monitoring
The regular monitoring and reporting of child/youth health behaviours/status and health knowledge/literacy as well as local program practices and capabilities is one of several key systems capacity related to school health. The following captures key relevant activities of this nature.
The Health Behavior in School-aged Childrenstudy was initiated in 1982 by researchers from England , Finland and Norway . The first round of data collection took place in these three countries and Austria in the 1983/84 school year and . Subsequent surveys have taken place in 1985/86, 1989/90, 1993/94, and 1997/98 and 2001/02.
Canada was invited to join the team in 1987 and participated in the survey the first time in 1989/90. The report from this survey was entitled The Health of Canada's Youth. Canada produced and WHO Euro Region published the report, The Health of Youth, based on the cross-national results from the 1993/94 survey. The last Canadian report, Trends in the Health of Canadian Youth, was released in 1999 and summarized Canadian data across three survey cycles, and on selected topics, compared Canadian findings with those of ten European countries.
The international report from the 2001/02 survey, entitled Young People's Health in Context, was released in June 2004. The Canadian report, Young People in Canada : Their Health and Well-being , released in October 2004, examines patterns in the factors that influence the health of young people aged 11 to 15. It examines the influence of factors such as family relationships, peer relationships, school climate and self-concept on health behaviours. Behaviours covered by the survey include smoking, alcohol and drug use, physical activity/body image, emotional health, eating patterns, bullying and injuries. The findings will be of interest to professionals in the education, health and social service systems, non-governmental organizations, independent researchers, parents, caregivers and young people themselves. Dr . Will Boyce of Queen's University was contracted by Health Canada to carry out the survey Canadian and is as the Principal Investigator for Canada . Both Health Canada and Queens University have been actively involved in the planning, design and dissemination task groups necessary for the management and support of the HBSC Study on a long term basis.
On 30-31 March 2007, representatives from 18 Member States convened as part of the WHO/Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Forum 2007 process, which is dedicated to social cohesion for mental wellbeing among adolescents. The “Las Palmas” meeting served to review the evolving drafts of 20 case studies being developed through the process. Studies cover national and sub-national evidence on mental health and wellbeing status among adolescents; the policy and social context for action; and program promoting adolescent mental wellbeing and prevention of mental health disorders. The meeting was in preparation for the larger WHO/HBSC Forum in October 2007 in Viareggio, Italy, the aim of which will be to distill lessons learnt and policy implications for scaling up action on the socioeconomic determinants of adolescent mental health.
The School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) is a (U.S.) national survey periodically conducted to assess school health policies and programs at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. SHPPS was conducted in 1994 and 2000, and again in 2006.
State, district and school level questionnaires related to all content areas, including Mental Health and Social Services are online. A Canadian survey, similar in nature but narrower in scope is planned for fall/winter 2007. It provides an excellent opportunity to include questions related to mental health programs, practices and resources. At this point the Canadian Association for School Health and the (Canadian) School Health Research Network is working to expand the survey’s content related to the health and social issues of youth. Areas of content currently confirmed for inclusion are substance abuse prevention; sexual health education and safe and caring schools promotion (e.g. bullying prevention).
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