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National organizations, state and local agencies, and technical assistance providers came together and defined eight pressing problems in school behavioral health services; now many national organizations and a wide range of State and local stakeholders and technical assistance centers are forming Practice Groups to work on these problems. Sponsors of the National Community of Practice are the IDEA Partnership funded by OSEP and housed at NASDSE and the Center for School Mental Health funded by HRSA and housed at the University of Maryland. View the Power Point Summary of the community design and the current work at: http://www.ideapartnership.org/documents/National.CoP.School.MH.ppt The focus of this Community is to collaboratively work across diverse stakeholders to create a shared agenda across education, mental health and families. This community operates through 10 practice groups. 12 states, 23 national organizations and 6 technical assistance centers working together in this community.
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Our CoP is the mechanism to act on the message that is sent by SAMSHA today. Together, we are decisionmakers, practitioners, families, youth and young adults who know and can make a difference in the issues related to MH in schools. Through our National CoP, we are making new efforts to make sure we are connected our common goals. Stay connected and become active. We need your perspective and we need your continued involvement.
Each year our CoP, together with our co-lead the Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland , promotes, receives, selects and hosts presentations that are field initiated and field supported in the National School Mental Health Conference. As we move toward this , the 14th National School Mental Heath Conference in Albuquerque in October, 2010… there will be many opportunities for you to participate in dialogue, webinars, tools development and action initiative to help bridge the school and clinical culture. Together, we are building the mechanism to help us stay connected, learn for each other and direct attention to issues at the intersection of education and mental health.
The National CoP on School Behavioral Health joins with SAMSHA today to remind us all…children’s mental health needs attention throughout the year. On this National Mental Health Awareness Day lets recommit to using our CoP to help that understanding become a reality.
http://sharedwork.org/15567/files/16498/9406/CMH+Awarness+Day.docx