EDUCATOR MENTAL HEALTH LITERACY Accomplishing the board’s mental health goals will require a concerted and coordinated effort by all parties involved. A top priority is the promotion of mental health literacy at all levels of school board staff. By developing a standard, board-wide suicide prevention protocol, and hosting professional development sessions for educators, we can ensure that all staff will be working at the same level of literacy and understanding. This will allow for the creation of a mental health safety net that will in turn help increase preventative mental health care to help avoid crises altogether. Parental mental health literacy will be bolstered by the launching of a special mental health website offering valuable information they can use at home to identify and address any possible mental health issues in their children. The board will also host sessions for parents to ask questions and get more information on wellness. IMPLEMENTATION OF MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION AND PREVENTION PROGRAMMING The implementation of our various mental health strategies will be on a solid foundation of evidence-based research and best practices regarding the bolstering of mental health awareness. By combining our own mental health curriculum to help bolster resiliency within our student body, and by drawing on the community resources available as identified by our resouce mapping efforts, we can help bring the ideals set out in the board’s mental health strategy to life and make its goals our reality. Priority Areas/ Key Activities Faith-Based Needed Resources Timeline Responsibility Strategic Themes Intervention ORGANIZATIONAL CONDITIONS Safety Net/ Suicide Create suicide prevention Suicide prevention protocol Team of experts getting Present Rebecca Paulsen Prevention protocol will have Religious together Tony Cosentino Coordinator look over and Professional development for Time at Principal’s add prayers and passages 2014 Mary-Lise Rowat administration in specific suicide meeting to the protocol prevention protocols Rebecca Paulsen
EDUCATOR MENTAL HEALTH LITERACY Accomplishing the board’s mental health goals will require a concerted and coordinated effort by all parties involved. A top priority is the promotion of mental health literacy at all levels of school board staff. By developing a standard, board-wide suicide prevention protocol, and hosting professional development sessions for educators, we can ensure that all staff will be working at the same level of literacy and understanding. This will allow for the creation of a mental health safety net that will in turn help increase preventative mental health care to help avoid crises altogether. Parental mental health literacy will be bolstered by the launching of a special mental health website offering valuable information they can use at home to identify and address any possible mental health issues in their children. The board will also host sessions for parents to ask questions and get more information on wellness. IMPLEMENTATION OF MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION AND PREVENTION PROGRAMMING The implementation of our various mental health strategies will be on a solid foundation of evidence-based research and best practices regarding the bolstering of mental health awareness. By combining our own mental health curriculum to help bolster resiliency within our student body, and by drawing on the community resources available as identified by our resouce mapping efforts, we can help bring the ideals set out in the board’s mental health strategy to life and make its goals our reality. Priority Areas/ Strategic Themes Key Activities Faith-Based Intervention Needed Resources Timeline Responsibility ORGANIZATIONAL CONDITIONS Safety Net/ Suicide Prevention Create suicide prevention protocol Professional development for administration in specific suicide prevention protocols Suicide prevention protocol will have Religious Coordinator look over and add prayers and passages to the protocol Team of experts getting together Time at Principal’s meeting Present 2014 Rebecca Paulsen Tony Cosentino Mary-Lise Rowat Rebecca Paulsen
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