A Heart of Understanding and a Mind of Wisdom
Children & Adolescents
Unmet Mental Health Needs
- Students' with unmet mental health needs can be a significant obstacle to academic, career and social/emotional development and even comprise school safety.
- Most students in need do not receive adequate mental health supports (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2013).
- Research shows that one out of five students are receiving necessary mental health services (Erford, 2019).
Schools and PlannedIntervention
- Preventive school-based mental health and behavioral services are essential.
- Without planned intervention for students exhibiting early-warning signs, setbacks in academic, career and social/emotional development can result during later school years and even adulthood.
- However, our schools can not detect every child that needs help. But parents and care givers can.