Every board is unique. Every school is unique. Every student is unique. Acknowledge your strengths as a board/school/community.
{"Image DocumentName": "Every board is unique.Every school is unique. Every student is unique. Acknowledge your strengths as a board/school/community.", "Image ImageDescription": "Identify areas of need. Create a feasible plan. Include attention to organizational conditions, mental health awareness building, and evidence-based programming. First, it is recognized that every school board in Ontario is unique, every school is unique, and, indeed, every staff member and student is unique. General principles offered are meant only as guidelines that you will, by necessity, tailor to your contexts. Some broad directions for your consideration include: (1) identify and acknowledge current strengths and resources in your board that support student mental health (name them - make a list of people, processes, products that you already have available!), (2) identify key areas of need and gaps in service, (3) create a short term plan of action to address one or two areas of need, (4) pay attention to core elements of school mental health (organizational conditions, mental health awareness building, and evidence-based promotion and prevention programming). We are all on the same path, but may be on different parts of the journey. School Mental Health ASSIST.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}