Some of the richest opportunities for improving educational outcomes may emerge from initiatives that prevent and address mental health issues in children.
Interventions like the Good Behavior Game or the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Program have proven to be effective in improving academic, mental health, and substance use outcomes with impressive returns on investment, but they are not widely adopted around the country.
Why? What might be done to encourage more effective, earlier interventions to promote academic success and healthier outcomes for children?
Those questions are being explored by experts brought together by the National Collaborative on Education and Health and Mental Health America (MHA), with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) in a grant to MHA. The answers can influence both practice and policy in education and mental health in the coming years.
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