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Approval of Monroe County School District 2019-2020 Mental Health Plan
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The 2019-2020 Monroe County School District Mental Health Plan highlights:
- Focus on delivering evidence-based mental health services through a multi-tiered system of supports
- Supports that addresses mental health needs assessment, diagnosis, intervention, treatment, and recovery
- Evidence-based mental health services for students with one or more co-occuring mental health or substance abuse diagnosis ad students at risk of diagnosis.
- Direct employment of school-based mental health providers to reduce staff to student ratios and meet student mental health assistance needs
- Strategies to increase the amount of time student services personnel spend providing direct mental health services
- Contracts or interagency agreements with local behavioral health providers to provide behavioral health services on or off school campus
- Policies and procedures that ensure all schools, including charter schools, to ensure students referred for mental health screening are assessed within 15 days of referral, school-based mental health services are initiated within 15 days of identification and assessment, and community-based mental health services for students are initiated within 30 days of referral
- Process for Coordinating Mental Health Services with a student’s primary care provider and other mental health providers, including procedures for information sharing Strategies or programs to reduce the likelihood of at-risk students developing social, emotional or behavioral problems; depression; anxiety; suicidal tendencies; or substance abuse disorders
- Process for coordinating mental health services for students at charter schools that are part of the school district’s plan
- Identifies strategies to improve early identification of social, emotional or behavioral problems or substance abuse disorders; improve provision of early intervention services; and
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