Promising Practices for Engaging Families and Communities around Mental Health in Schools

Travis Lewis, Associate Professor, East Carolina University, has over 25 years of experience in student services and educational leadership, having served as a school counselor and administrator in both K-12 and higher education.Diana Hiatt-Michael, Professor Emeritus, Pepperdine University, and graduate of UCLA, continues her involvement in GSEP since 1974, her early teaching on the original Vermont campus.

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Travis LewisChapter 2. Connecting Community-Level Trauma & Student Success Through Systems Thinking; Jason Lynch and Kesha B. HoodChapter 3. Innovative Partnerships to Expand School-Based Mental Health Capacity in Rural Communities; Robyn Thomas Pitts, Kristen Park, Amy K. McDiarmid, Elaine S. Belansky, and Gloria E. MillerChapter 4. Creating Protective Factors in Children Through Positive Home-School Practices; Patrick D. Cunningham, Meredith E. Wellman, Gahyun Park, Brett Zyromski, Barbara J. Boone, and Emily C. OsbornChapter 5. Beyond the Classroom: Leveraging Home Visits to Support Student Mental Well-Being; Julie A. Stanley and Mary HuffmanChapter 6. Cultural Sharing Conversations: Cultivating Collaborative Partnerships Between School and Family; Gloria E. MillerChapter 7. Your Health, Our Responsibility: Unlocking the Potential of Collaborative University-Assisted Approaches to Improving Health and Wellness through School-Based Programming; Gretchen E. L. Suess, Paige K. Lombard, and Paulette BransonChapter 8. The Value of Healing Families: Connecting Early Literacy with Social-Emotional Learning; Kathleen I. HarrisChapter 9. Transformative SEL: Building Capacity for Authentic Caregiver-School Partnerships; Briana Coleman and Tyrone Martinez-BlackChapter 10. Rural School-Based Mental Health and Wellness: Supporting Leaders Who Lead Support Systems; Antoinette Ryan and Wesley HenryChapter 11. Positions Not People: The Cumulative Impacts of Systematic Dehumanizing of Educators; Nicole Wilson Steffes and KatieChapter 12. Student Reentry Plans Following Psychiatric Hospitalization: Information Sharing Between Families, Schools and Healthcare Providers; Mitzi Pestaner and Shannon Baker Powell