Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
Maine-AWARE - Maine-AWARE implements a multi-tiered system of interventions that integrates school positive behavior supports, social emotional learning, and mental health literacy and intervention strategies in order to maximize school/community capacity to identify and serve school aged children with mental health needs. The three LEAs selected to pilot and build a statewide comprehensive approach to school mental health are representative of the challenges by Maine's typically small, rural school districts - notably reliance on community mental health partners who do not have the ability to participate in broader school prevention/intervention activities and shortages of qualified mental health professionals. Maine-AWARE supports the co-training of community and school based clinicians and nonclinical staff in compatible evidence based practices, supports multiple opportunities for collaborative problem solving, and addresses policy/funding stream issues create barriers to interagency collaboration and funding flexibility. The project culminates in the development of a statewide comprehensive school mental health framework that can be sustainably implemented and supported within the local control environment that characterizes Maine education.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).