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CEO of Daybreak Health said it best, "When it comes to mental health care, one size does not fit all." It's important to implement programs that are not "white binder programs". Those programs never last. It's like fitting a square peg in a round hole and paying a lot of money to "make it fit" the needs of your students. Not here--not at Daybreak. Your district program is customized to match to the needs of your students. If you need professional learning for your staff and/or families to better understand youth mental health ✅ If you need universal screening to better understand the needs of your students with comprehensive data provided to the school mental health experts ✅ If you need 1:1 teletherapy for students during school, after school, and/or on weekends ✅ If you need a program and resource for your elementary families ✅ If you need to increase the capacity of your mental health team and want to add more staff to your team ✅ If you want one, some, a combo, or all of these, we've got you ✅ 🧠 💙 "School-based teams love Daybreak because it allows them to quickly expand capacity and give more students access to high-quality mental health support. They can easily make referrals and can feel confident it’s a highly utilized mental health program — not just a “check-the-box” solution." "That’s why we’ve dedicated Daybreak’s mission to supporting the incredible school leaders across the country who make a difference every day. Daybreak’s clinicians help students ultimately show behavioral and academic improvements despite the challenges they are facing. Today, we’re proud to support the mental health programs of more than 70 school districts representing over one million students across the US."

Sobering statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: 42% of U.S. high school students feel persistent sadness and hopelessness, and more than one in five seriously considered suicide in 2021. In a piece for The 74 Media, SCORE Founder & Chairman Bill Frist, M.D., offers key takeaways from our recent mental health symposium that focused on strengthening student mental health. https://lnkd.in/eB2UQc3x

BeMe Health a leading digital mental health company, has partnered with Inland Empire Health Plan and Molina Healthcare to extend its vital services to teens in schools across Riverside and San Bernardino counties in California. 🎓🤝 BeMe Health's app offers skill-building activities, one-on-one coaching, clinical services, and 24/7 crisis support, ensuring effective mental health support for teens. The collaboration spans 10 local educational agencies, benefiting over 72,000 teens aged 13 to 19. 🏫👫 Under this partnership, BeMe will be compensated on a per-member-per-month basis by Molina and IEHP. With 42% of high school students experiencing persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in 2021, this collaboration underscores the need for collective efforts to address the adolescent mental health crisis. Read more about this collaboration: https://hubs.ly/Q028vZ6B0

New Grant Alert for Enhancing School-Based Mental Health! Burrows Consulting has found a grant opportunity for organizations looking to start or expand school-based mental health services. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the School Based Mental Health Services Grant Program seeks to increase the availability of qualified mental health professionals in educational settings in need. Opportunity Highlights: Aimed at supporting local educational agencies (LEAs) by enhancing mental health services for students. Grants range from $500,000 to $3,000,000 over a 60-month period, with 15-25 awards expected. Open to State Educational Agencies and Local Educational Agencies showing a need for increased mental health services. Important Dates: Application Deadline: April 30, 2024 Applicant Webinars: March 26 & April 16, 2024 Your Next Steps: Discover full announcement details and application process on grants.gov. A 25% match from state, local, or private resources is required for funding. For expert advice on applying and how this grant can benefit your organization, contact Burrows Consulting. Get in touch via the link in our bio or by emailing cassie@burrowsconsulting.net. Seize this opportunity to impact school-based mental health services positively! #SchoolMentalHealth #GrantOpportunity #EducationFunding

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September is Mental Health Awareness Month - Priority Pups - and more! So proud to work at an organization leaning in to support our communities in the mental health space. Whether via Priority Health's > Priority Pups program, > Mental Health First Aid, > The great work our Priority Health Behavioral Health team provides to our members, or > The impact our Medical Care Management team has in wholistically assessing members who are engaging in our Care Management programs to include behavioral health status - Priority Health is moving with intentionality to address and support our members who are experiencing mental health conditions to provide support, access and resources. https://lnkd.in/gW3p_Sy9

EDUCATORS: In an era of unprecedented adolescent mental health crises, it is time we as educators work upstream on behalf of the students we serve to ensure our places of learning are communities of care & belonging https://lnkd.in/g8jxq9rf

This is off the charts significant. If you take this mental navigator concept and expand it to community oriented primary care, asset based community development, dental, geriatric, home visits, child development you are changing populations, health literacies, access, and more. If this becomes a mainstay of foundations and is facilitated by the already in development efforts via Project ECHO telehealth - awesome. Project ECHO is supporting mental health team members, mental health assessment, child development, and educator support in addition to supporting primary care via specialized services supports and numerous training outreaches. Communities forever behind in so many areas must have small armies of teens and young adults who are using such projects as preparation for their serving human infrastructure careers. (Think Civilian Conservation Corps, and we need physical infrastructure building just as much as human infrastructure especially in these counties) The impacts are two ways - those supported and those serving/learning. We need their literacies improved to improve their outcomes and the outcomes of their future family and to combat misinformation. HEALTH CARE INTERVENTIONS will not change outcomes the way that they must be changed. POPULATIONS must be changed to improve health, education, economic, and social outcomes. Interventions earliest in childhoold are best. The 2621 counties most behind across dozens of drivers of outcomes, literacies, and much more need this. The rest of the nation has separated away and is too enmeshed in profit and investment as well as cost cutting designs and micromanagement that nearly always hurts most Americans most behind. Sadly the excess costs and investments will continue to force more Americans to depart areas of excess and millions will continue to go to the 2621 counties that have grown from 32% of the population in 1970 to 40% in 2010 and should reach a majority in the 2060s. The health insurance design prevents more than half enough basic health access for these 2621 counties. The states short them in social supports and public health, often because runaway health care costs are defeating all of the state budgets. Federal designs fail them. CMS Medicare Medicaid has defeated their local leadership by killing off countless health care related jobs and their spouses due to hundreds of hospital closures and countless closures of practices. These jobs and spouses are important in leadership in health care and other areas. Only Hill Burton investments and organization from 1946 to 1997 and the first decade of Medicare and Medicaid have actually helped these counties and the same is true for primary care, mental health, women's health, basic surgical and geriatrics. Vast regions must take control of their health care finances and engineer their own training to shape most and best professionals and delivery team members maximal in continuity and experience - the opposite of current designs

Happy Health Education Week! Let's hear from one of our members! Mumford and Associates is a resource in our escalating youth mental health crisis. Since 2021, we've spearheaded initiatives addressing this pressing issue. We trained 300 adults in Youth Mental Health First Aid, empowering them to effectively identify, understand, and respond to mental health challenges in young people. Moreover, we trained over 100 students in Teen Mental Health First Aid, fostering a generation that comprehends mental health's importance, reducing stigma, and creating supportive environments. A groundbreaking step has been certifying 11th graders through first-year students in college as Youth Mental Health workers, using Morehouse's Community Health Worker curriculum. Armed with skills and empathy, these young advocates are breaking down stigma among their peers, advocating for their issues, and creating a supportive network. Mental Health First Aid courses hold immense value. They provide deep insights into mental health disorders, their signs, and effective interventions, creating a network that can recognize and support those in need. These courses instill empathy, active listening, and the importance of destigmatizing mental health struggles. Addressing the youth mental health crisis necessitates a village approach. Communities play a pivotal role in shaping mental well-being. We create environments where youth can thrive by fostering understanding and providing resources. The village perspective ensures multiple support avenues, reducing the isolation often felt during mental health struggles. Mumford and Associates' initiative to train young individuals as mental health workers is transformative. By destigmatizing mental health and nurturing advocacy, we sow the seeds for a society where mental well-being is a priority. Together, we pave the way for a future where empathy and understanding prevail, illuminating the path to a compassionate, mentally healthy world for our youth. Quinyatta M. #NHEW2023 #YouthMentalHealth #PublicHealth #HealthEducation #HealthPromotion

Can't believe the Race for Recovery, the Be a Largest Heart 5K event is coming up. The 5th anniversary! Largest Heart Corporation was founded in 2018 because too many kids were dying of preventable deaths - suicide and overdose. Overdose Deaths since we started. 2010: 38,329 (3X'd in 12 years. 2010 provides reference/seriousness of issue) 2018: 67,367 2019: 70,980 2020: 91,799 2021: 106,699 2022: 107,573 *Source - www.CDC.gov & www.nih.gov Terrifying, and if you're a parent, mistakes you made, are now fatalities. The stats don't lie. In fact, last year alone there was enough fentanyl to kill every American 5X's over, and that's just what was found! It's why the Be a Largest Heart 5K event is more than just a race. It's an event to raise awareness, and prevention, to remember all the loved ones lost to this disease and epidemic, and to raise money for one of America's only certified Recovery High Schools!! Help us do more by getting involved. Go to www.LargestHeart.org to learn more about how you can help us save lives. With a special THANKS to Synterex!!!! Talk about a company stepping up to do more. What's your business doing? If we had more businesses like Synterex, what a world we'd live in! Be a Largest Heart and get involved today. #support #makeadifference #sponsorship #getinvolved #recoverymonth