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School Based Mental Health
Summit
Elizabeth HudsonJoann Stephens
Office of Children’s Mental HealthMay 21, 2015
Office of Children’s Mental HealthCoordinating and Integrating Services Across State Agencies
Office of Children’s Mental HealthCoordinating and Integrating Services Across State Agencies
SHIFT Our Perspective
• From illness to adaptation• From primarily a clinical approach to a
public health approach• From families as receivers to families as
leaders• From a programs approach to a systems
approach
SHIFTfrom Mental Illness to Adaptation
SHIFTfrom Mental Illness to Adaptation
“Early experiences are biologically embedded in the development of the brain and other organ systems leaving a lifelong impact on learning, behavior and both physical and mental health.”
Harvard Center on the Developing Child
Safe, Stable, Nurturing, Informed FamiliesKnowledgeable Lawmakers
Consistent Media Messaging
Trauma-Informed Care
•Understand basic trauma & ACEs information•Recognize triggers•Recognize signs of emotional dysregulation •Learn basic self-regulation and de-escalation skills•Approach others from a frame of cultural competence•Shift your perspective from “what’s wrong with that person?” to “what might have happened to that person?”
Mental Health Providers
Mental Health Coaches and Consultants
Youth and Parent Peer Specialists
Create common understanding related to:•Disproportionality across state agencies•High youth psychiatric hospitalization rates•High youth suicide rates•Child/youth psychotropic medication prescribing patterns
Colle
ctive
Impa
ct Collective Impact
SHIFTfrom a primarily Clinical Approach to a Public Health Approach
SHIFTfrom a primarily Clinical Approach to a Public Health Approach
Student Support Services
Skilled Child Serving Workforce
SHIFTfrom Families as Receivers to Families as Leaders
SHIFTfrom Families as Receivers to Families as Leaders
Develop an infrastructure to ensure meaningful parent and youth involvement in state agency activities
How do OCMH SHIFTS
apply to School Based Mental Health?
Community Involvement• Evidence based mental health services include
natural and community supports, recognizing and utilizing all resources in the community creatively and flexibly, including formal and informal supports and service systems.
• Community resource development creates an infrastructure of community supports that can help manage clinical risk and reduce reliance on direct treatment services.
SHIFTfrom Families as Receivers to
Families as Leaders
SHIFTfrom Families as Receivers to
Families as Leaders
Parent Peer Specialists in Wisconsin
Role of a Certified Parent Peer Specialist:
• Provide information and resources• Support parents in navigating complex
systems• Deliver peer support • Encourage self-reliance, resilience, and
recovery.
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Exploring Parent Perspectives
• Highlights:– Increased Access– Early Intervention– Coordination between services and school staff
• Concerns:– Services without Parent Involvement – Medical Model Services– Teachers disengaging
