A Train-the-Trainer Opportunity
Is your school prepared to care for all of the students, staff, and families in your community? Educators are often the first line of support in addressing mental health needs for students. They recognize the impact mental health has on learning and achievement. Ready your school community to weather stress, trauma, and promote well-being for your entire school population.
In this session, school staff will:
- Learn how to implement the Compassionate School Mental Health model being used to enhance services to schools and districts in the New England Mental Health Technology Transfer Center's Childhood Trauma-Learning Collaborative.
- Gain an understanding of how a compassionate school mental health support system can help schools create systems, policies, and protocols to prevent, address, and recover from tragedies and crises including staff or student suicide, school violence, natural disasters, and global pandemics.
Presenter: Martha Staeheli, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, School Mental Health Initiative, New England MHTTC, is a faculty member at the Program for Recovery and Community Health in the Yale School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. Trained as a secondary English teacher, and with a PhD in Public Health, she has extensive experience in population health and epidemiology; qualitative and mixed methods research design, analysis, and evaluation; and community and clinical intervention implementation.
Participants who complete our sessions have the opportunity to:
- Earn 1 hour of CE credit
- Earn an advocacy-specific micro-credential as a Take HEART Ambassador
- Apply for funding to support on-the-ground efforts that promote mental health and well being of everyone in your school community
- Connect with experts
- Build community with educators, school staff, and behavioral health professionals
This session is an offering of our Healthcare and Educators Addressing and Reducing Trauma (HEART) Collective.
Our Take HEART Ambassador Program is a four session training series designed to create a school community that works together to reduce and respond compassionately to trauma, including strategies for increasing stakeholder involvement and disseminating public health and mental health literacy campaigns and materials.
Learn more about our series and register for one or all sessions!
Take the lead in bringing system-wide change strategies to your learning community.
Our School Mental Health Initiative develops and disseminates evidence-based resources to enhance school culture and prepare the school mental health workforce to extend trauma-skilled practices. Our efforts are designed to help schools cultivate compassionate school communities that buffer against the negative effects of trauma, build resilience for all students, and provide stress-relief and enhanced well-being for teachers and other school personnel, as well as students.
