Background
- Caring for Kids brochure. School-based Mental Health Services: Meeting the Needs of Children (PDF)
- Children’s Mental Health: Current Challenges and a Future Direction by Sarah Olbrich, MPH, GWU.
This MPH-honors paper provides an overview of children’s mental health needs, current mental health services, and financing arrangements, and concludes with a section focusing on school-based mental health. - Children’s Mental Health Needs and School-Based Services: A Fact Sheet
- Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General-Chapter 3-Children and Mental Health
- Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity. A supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General Executive Summary.
- NAMI Policy Research Institute Task Force Report: Children and Psychotropic Medications, June 2004.
- Psychotropic Drugs and Children: Use, Trends, and Implications for Schools. June 2004.
- State Policy Context for School-Based Health Centers, with Special Focus on the Development of Mental Health and Dental Health Services
- School-Based Mental Health Services: A Select Bibliography
- Promoting Positive Mental and Emotional Health in Teens: Some Lessons from Research. (PDF)
- Managing Threats- Safety Lessons Learned from School Shootings, UrbanEd Magazine, University of Southern California, By Marleen Wong, Ph.D. (PDF)