The Mental Health Literacy Collaborative

📣 💫 Don't miss this issue of HigherEdRisk featuring our very own Chief Learning Officer, Donna Volpitta, Ed.D! ⭐ Donna's contribution - "3 Steps to Improve Mental Health on Campus" -highlights #mentalhealthliteracy (MHL) as a key strategy for student well-being on campus. #campuswellbeing #mentalhealth

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that the MHLC will be presenting "Mental Health Literacy as a Foundation for Student Success" at the Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience, happening February 16-19, 2025, in New Orleans! 🚢 ✨ In our session, participants will explore how integrating #mentalhealthliteracy (MHL) into first-year programming provides a proactive, scalable solution to equip all students for success. 📚💪 We hope you can join us to learn how MHL can transform the first-year experience set students up for success in school and beyond! 🌟 To learn more about the conference, visit: https://lnkd.in/eYEftWU To learn about our work at The Mental Health Literacy Collaborative, visit: www.themhlc.org #StudentMentalHealth #StudentSuccess #FirstYearExperience #Conference2025

📣 Exciting news from The Mental Health Literacy Collaborative (MHLC)! We're launching the first-ever Mental Health Literacy (MHL) Interstate Workgroup! 🚀 🎉 This initiative focuses on fostering cross-state collaborations to enhance the school implementation of #mentalhealthliteracy (MHL) education. ✨ 🤔 Is your state represented yet? 🤔 Are you involved in MHL implementation in your schools or communities? 💫 🤔 Are you interested in working on this exciting initiative? 💫 🌟 We invite passionate school and community leaders to join us! 🌟 What can you expect from the MHL Interstate Workgroup? ✨ 🌟 The MHL Interstate Workgroup will offer a supportive environment for innovation and collaboration, tackling key implementation challenges including: 📚 Selecting the right MHL content 💬 Effective communication and policy guidelines 📣 Crafting advocacy strategies 🔍 Elevating research and evaluation opportunities 🏆 Sharing best practices 🗓️ This workgroup will kick off during a pre-conference session at the Advancing School Mental Health Conference in Orlando on December 4th. Future meetings will be held virtually, 4-6 times a year, ensuring ongoing collaboration and support. 🌐💻 🤝 Let's work together and share the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to implement MHL education effectively! 🌱💫 👉 To attend the MHLC Annual Meeting - workgroup involvement is not required - please register here: https://lnkd.in/e6yCyy2m 👉 To inquire about representing your state for the MHL Interstate Workgroup, contact Donna@themhlc.org. (Attending Dec. 4 is not required to get involved!) #leadership #schoolmentalhealth #healtheducation #youthmentalhealth

🎉 🎉 Join us in congratulating the University of Maryland, Baltimore on this incredible achievement. Thank you for including #mentalhealthliteracy as a primary objective! From the article: "'Guiding Resilience and Offering Wellness' (GROW), addresses mental health and substance use in the community college population. Their proposed plan has three prongs: a wellness leadership workshop and certification program; a case-management team; and an interactive screening program to increase student engagement, mitigate loneliness, and support long-term mental health and wellness. The program’s aims include increasing health insurance coverage and access to mental health treatment providers for community college students in the Washington area, increasing their mental health literacy, and reducing their experiences of loneliness and isolation." #innovation #research #leadership #SUDprevention #collegementalhealth

Thank you ConcernCenter for your partnership. We are delighted to work alongside you to elevate MHL in schools and communities!

🤔 Are you an education professional working to bring MHL initiatives into your local or state school communities? 🤔 Are you open to collaborating with other leaders across the nation doing similar work and facing similar challenges? 🚀 We are launching the first-ever Mental Health Literacy (MHL) Interstate Workgroup - a national opportunity for education leaders at the local, district, or state level to help de-silo the mental health education space. 👉 Contact Donna@themhlc.org to learn more! ✴️ Share this post with your networks! 🌎 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that every has."🌱 -Margaret Mead #education #mentalhealth #schoolmentalhealth #youthmentalhealth #studentmentalhealth #healtheducation #leadership #collaboration

🎉 💫 We are thrilled to recognize Dr. Sharon Hoover, Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Co-Director of the National Center for School Mental Health, and Director of the National Center for Safe Supportive Schools, for our October Advisor spotlight. 🔦 🎉 Dr. Hoover's contributions to the field of #schoolmentalhealth have helped the advancement of #research, #policy, and practice in this critical space. Check out this recent publication as just one example of her contributions: "Investing in School Mental Health: Strategies to Wisely Spend Federal and State Funding." https://lnkd.in/exREuNjg 💰 🏫 Dr. Hoover and the NCSMH team host the Annual Advancing School Mental Health Conference, this year in Orlando: https://lnkd.in/gCvj_VDh 💡Last year, it was Dr. Hoover’s idea that we officially launch the MHLC as a pre-conference session. Perhaps you were there in New Orleans to join us. What a fantastic afternoon! 🚀 Finally, Dr. Hoover has been instrumental in the rapid growth and ever-expanding reach of the MHLC. She understands the urgency of going #upstream 💦 with #mentalhealthliteracy (MHL), and her feedback and suggestions continue to help us as we grow. 🌱 💚 Thank you, Dr. Hoover, for your incredible leadership! We are grateful to have you as a founding advisor with the MHLC. 💚

📣 📣 📣 Calling U.S. #education and #community leaders and MHL advocates! The MHLC is seeking local and state leaders involved in #mentalhealthliteracy (MHL) initiatives to be part of the MHL Interstate Workgroup launching soon! The workgroup will be a safe place for problem-solving and collaborations to address issues including: ✨ policy guidelines ✨ strategies for advocacy ✨ effective selection of MHL content ✨ research and evaluation ✨ best practices Up to 3️⃣ representatives from each state may participate, and most meetings will be virtual. Contact Donna@themhlc.org to learn more. #leadership #mentalhealth #communityhealth #education #collaboration

👏 👏 Congratulations to our October Mental Health Literacy (MHL) Champion, Dr. Kathleen Ethier, Director of CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH)! 🏆 🎉 💚 Last December, the MHLC team met Dr. Ethier at our official launch in New Orleans where she contributed to the lively discussions surrounding advocacy, policy, and implementation of MHL in schools. 💚 That same week, under Dr. Ethier’s leadership, DASH released their Action Guide for School and District Leaders which includes MHL as one of six strategies for promoting mental health and wellbeing in schools. View that guide here: https://lnkd.in/dmAXuiqp 💚 Dr. Ethier understands the critical need for MHL to be part of school mental health initiatives and she frequently talks about it. Here is just an example of the many interviews where Dr. Ethier elevates the importance of MHL: https://lnkd.in/ecXkb7EM Thank you, Dr. Ethier! Congratulations for the well-deserved recognition as October’s MHL Champion! 👏 🎉 🏆 #mentalhealthliteracy #schoolmentalhealth #youthmentalhealth #communityhealth #advocacy #education #leadership

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