The Small and Rural Schools Mental Health Project with The Texas Education Agency and the Region 4 Education Service Center integrating Mental Health Supports to promote student safety and wellbeing. TEA is partnering with the National Center for School Mental Health to provide training and technical assistance to Small and/or Rural School Districts around the state. School Districts will be trained on the SHAPE (School Health Assessment and Performance Evaluation System) system as a method to integrate mental health supports. You will receive training and technical assistance in how to begin the identification process of the mental health needs of your district, action planning, an implementation model for your district, a data-collection system, and evaluation process to measure success! You will also receive monthly support with the Region 4 Mental Health Specialist and quarterly training and technical assistance with the Mental Health Team at TEA.
Train and support LEA cohort on Behavioral Health Practice Guide Tools, including:
a. Introduction and Overview of Behavioral Health Ecosystem Network and TEA Tools,
b. School Behavioral Health Needs Assessment with TEA Tools and School Climate Data,
c. Resource Mapping to identify and map internal and external School Behavioral Health resources with TEA Tools,
d. Behavioral Health Campus Planning to build preliminary School Behavioral Health Campus Service Delivery Plan with TEA Tools and develop a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), and
e. Intervention and Consultation on additional student-level processes and TEA Tools;