Friday, April 26, 2024
4/26/2024
ABSTRACT: Project Title: HI-AWARE2. HI-AWARE2 will support the Hawaii Department of Education (HIDOE) as a SEA and as an LEA with seven districts (DI) statewide using the Hawaii Multi-Tiered System of Support (HMTSS) to implement mental health related awareness, prevention, intervention and resilience activities to ensure students have access and are connected to appropriate and effective behavioral health supports through Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS), Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Trauma Informed Care and School-Based Behavioral Health (SBBH). Populations Served: Complex Areas (CAs) served will be Castle Kahuku Complex and Nanakuli Waianae Complex (Oahu) and Kau-Keaau-Pahoa Complex (Hawaii Island), with expansion to four other districts (Central, Honolulu, Maui, Kauai) to serve 20,400 annually in years 1 and 2 and 174,700 students statewide annually in years 3-5. Hawaii is considered high need, with approximately 1 in every 2 students eligible for Free or Reduced Lunch, 195 Title I schools and 75,666 students residing in homes classified as low socio-economic status. Strategies/Interventions. Continue to implement and enhance the HMTSS Framework which provides universal, targeted and intensive supports to school-aged youth who need them; assess and enhance the HMTSS system for cultural competence, trauma-informed care, being developmentally appropriate, evidence-based and evidence-informed; and address the effects of COVID-19 and the impact to schools and school-aged youth through a revised statewide HMTSS Guide. In partnership with HIDOE, CAMHDA, Hale Kipa and targeted CAs, HMTSS referral pathways between tiers will be enhanced to ensure students receive the level of support necessary. HI-AWARE2 will create a Crisis Prevention Plan for CAs, establish an advisory board to support improvement and implement a school-based student suicide awareness and prevention policy, including a plan for evidence-based training for students in 6-12th grade in coordination with school-based mental health resources. Project Goals and Objectives. GOAL 1: Increase awareness/knowledge of staff and school-aged youth to understand and detect signs/symptoms of mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders. Obj 1: Establish capacity building plan to increase mental health awareness for staff/students in the three complex areas. Obj 2: Establish threat assessment and violence prevention plan. Obj 3: All complex areas/schools statewide identify point of contact and methods of collaboration. GOAL 2: Increase/improve access to school and community-based trauma informed and developmentally relevant SEL based on Na Hopena A’o (HA). Obj 1: Embed HA framework into SEL Curricula through Trauma informed lens. Obj 2: 80% or more schools include Adult SEL Component. Obj 3: 80% or more schools in 3 CAs integrate SEL within HMTSS and establish integrated SEB PBIS framework. GOAL 3: Improve/expand three-tiered public health model. Obj 1: Establish collaborative partnership to assess and address the needs and service gaps. Obj 2: Develop referral pathway system within HMTSS connecting youth and families to services. Obj 3: Establish advisory board and develop sustainability plan GOAL 4: Establish school-based, culturally relevant and evidence-based suicide awareness and prevention training policy in secondary schools. Obj 1: Establish school-based student suicide awareness and prevention training policy in alignment with the National Health Standards. Obj 2: Assure staff are trained in Suicide Prevention as dictated by 302A-856 Hawaii Revised Statutes and plan in place for school age youth Suicide Awareness Prevention training to increase from baseline to 80%. Obj 3: A coordinated Suicide Prevention training program in place, available to secondary students and schools, including new 988 Suicide Hotline Number and the Crisis Textline 741741 to increase from baseline to 80%.
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