Thursday, December 26, 2024
12/26/2024
The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) and Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) will work together to build capacity to detect and respond to mental health issues among school-aged youth across Arizona schools and communities. The population to be served includes 3 LEAs across the region of Arizona as well as internal and external partners. The LEAs represent three major geographical regions of the state and are within zip codes identified to have high to very high percentage of determinants of health. The goals of the program are: • GOAL#1: Build and maintain infrastructure for mental health services in Arizona schools for school-aged youth. • GOAL#2: Conduct outreach and engagement with school-aged youth and their families to increase awareness and identification of mental health issues and to promote positive mental health. • GOAL#3: Provide professional development to school personnel, SEA staff, community partners and other adults who interact with school-aged youth, to detect and respond to mental health issues Arizona Department of Education will be to create and sustain a statewide coalition of behavioral health partners to assist in providing resources to all schools in Arizona. The coalition including private and public partners will develop resources and collaborate to increase and improve access to culturally competent and developmentally appropriate school- and community-based mental health services. We will conduct outreach and engagement with school-aged youth and their families to increase awareness and identification of mental health issues and to promote positive mental health. ADE will partner with 3 LEAs over the course of 5 years to develop infrastructure in each school to enable them to respond and recognize mental health behaviors. We will develop meaningful ways to engage students and their families by involving them in the design and implementation of education and community initiatives related to youth mental health such as participating in family engagement activities and other community events. Additionally, ADE will provide professional development to school personnel, state education agency staff, community partners and other adults who interact with school-aged youth. We believe that providing professional development in the context of the evidence based practices will model not only to LEA’s, but to internal and external partner’s statewide. Throughout the lifetime of the project we plan to serve over 100,000 individuals.
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