The Mental Health Student Services Act (MHSSA) Coordinators can present or facilitate connection to presenters who provide targeted training on mental health topics to educators, administrators, parents/caregivers and students to improve awareness and understanding of mental health topics and knowledge of how to navigate services. If you are interested in any of the trainings listed below please contact your MHSSA Coordinator.
Administrators/Educators:
- Mental health awareness basics (e.g. recognizing signs/symptoms, prevalence)
- Threat assessment
- Social Emotional Learning
- Youth and depression
- Bullying prevention
- Mental health trauma screening
- Trauma informed schools/classroom/teaching
- Restorative Practices
- Culture and mental health
- Suicide prevention
- Crisis response and postvention
- Stigma reduction
- Self-care/mindfulness/stress and coping
- Grief and loss
- WellSpace overview
Parents/Caregivers:
- Mental health awareness basics (e.g. recognizing signs/symptoms, prevalence)
- Youth depression and anxiety
- Trauma sensitive parenting/understanding the impact of trauma on learning
- Positive parenting strategies
- Culture and mental health
- Suicide prevention
- Stigma reduction
- Self-care/mindfulness/stress and coping
- Supporting children and youth with resilience/empathy/problem solving
- Grief and loss
- Behavior 101 (e.g., identifying challenging behavior, establishing rules and routines, setting limits)
Students:
- Mental health awareness basics (e.g. recognizing signs/symptoms, prevalence)
- Bullying prevention
- Understanding trauma
- Culture and mental health
- Suicide prevention
- Stigma reduction
- Self-care/mindfulness/stress and coping
- Resilience/empathy/problem solving skills
- Building/maintaining healthy relationships with friends
- How to access school based mental services
- Grief and loss
- Building healthy relationships
Please see links below for additional training and workshop opportunities.
For more information on Behavioral Training Collaborative (BHTC) please link to the flyer below:
Behavioral Health Collaborative Training request form:
OCDE Professional Development Opportunities:
For more information about training opportunities from our partners please click on the links below:
Didi Hirsch
NAMI OC
