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Wright-Berryman, Jennifer L.; Thompson, Devyn; Cramer, Robert J. – Children & Schools, 2022
Youth suicide rates have consistently risen over the past decade, and stigma related to mental health may create a barrier to young people seeking help. Schools are a common intercept point for mental health and suicide prevention programming. Hope Squad, a school-based, peer-to-peer, suicide prevention program, uses trained and mentored students…
Descriptors: Suicide, Social Bias, Peer Relationship, Prevention
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Claudia Corpus-Espinosa; Isotta Mac Fadden; María del Carmen Torrejón-Guirado; Marta Lima-Serrano – Prevention Science, 2025
Adolescence is a critical period for developing risk behaviors such as substance use, which can impact health in adulthood. Culturally adapted evidence-based programs (EBPs) are promising for prevention. This review explores the processes for culturally adapting EBPs targeting alcohol, tobacco, or cannabis use, and/or anxiety or depression in…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Substance Abuse, Prevention, Programs
Lyka F. Gonzales; Kyla P. Telmo – Online Submission, 2025
The usefulness of health communication in promoting health programs through various communication strategies plays a key role in raising awareness on the prevention of diseases within the community. However, there are currently no existing studies that focus specifically on community diseases such as dengue fever. Therefore, this study aimed to…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Prevention, Community Programs, Health Programs
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Laura Gallant – Childhood Education, 2024
Educators and caregivers can foster emotional wellbeing, growth, and resilience, contributing to a fulfilling and balanced adulthood by providing positive childhood experiences (PCEs). PCEs protect the brain and promote healing for people who have experienced adverse childhood environments (ACEs). In the presence of PCEs, adverse experiences in…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Problems, Barriers, Poverty
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Baffsky, Rachel; Ivers, Rebecca; Cullen, Patricia; Wang, Jessica; McGillivray, Lauren; Torok, Michelle – Prevention Science, 2023
A number of school-based mental health prevention programs have been found to be effective in research trials, but little is known about how to support implementation in real-life settings. To address this translational problem, this systematic review aims to identify effective strategies for enhancing the implementation of mental health…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, School Health Services, Mental Health, Literature Reviews
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DeFosset, Amelia R.; Sivashanmugam, Megala; Mosst, Jennifer; Kuo, Tony – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Clinics and community-based organizations (CBOs) are priority settings for implementing the evidence-based National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). Both program settings present theoretical advantages and disadvantages for engaging and helping populations most at risk for diabetes achieve lifestyle change goals. To date, few studies have…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Prevention, Health Programs, Health Behavior
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Walsh, Eibhlin H.; Herring, Matthew P.; McMahon, Jennifer – Prevention Science, 2023
Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death among adolescents, globally. Though post-primary, school-based suicide prevention (PSSP) has the potential to be a key strategy for preventing adolescent suicidal thoughts and behaviours (STBs), there are persisting challenges to translating PSSP research to practice. Intervention and contextual factors…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, School Health Services, Suicide, Prevention
Rood-Emmick, Chelsea Marin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
"The issue of what to do in response to suicidal students is anything but a clear one" (Harshbarger, 2014, para. 3). How to best support students with severe mental illness is an ongoing challenge for institutions of higher education. Institutions must adapt to a rapidly changing landscape of evolving federal policy, case law, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Suicide, Mental Disorders, Mental Health Programs
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Rachel A. Chambers; Christopher Kemp; Abagail Edwards; Summer Rosenstock; Angelita Lee; Laura Pinal; Etheline Cosen; Francene Larzelere; Lauren Tingey – Prevention Science, 2023
In 2019, Native youth had the highest rate of teen pregnancy of all racial/ethnic groups. "Respecting the Circle of Life" (RCL) is one of the first evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs for Native teens and there is interest in replicating the program across tribal communities. To inform replication, it is important to…
Descriptors: American Indians, Youth, Adolescents, Pregnancy
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Daniel J. Gibbs; Joseph Konstanzer; Kristen Hassmiller Lich; Paul Lanier; David Ansong; Mimi V. Chapman; Todd M. Jensen – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2025
Youth in foster care are more likely than their peers to require mental health supports to promote their well-being, and this level of need has likely been heightened by individual, familial, system-level, and societal factors arising during the COVID-19 pandemic. These changes have simultaneously produced a shortage in the supply of available…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Youth, Foster Care, Mental Health Programs
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Rosen, Melanie R.; Michael, Kurt D.; Jameson, J. P. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Background: Most suicide prevention programs focus on increasing knowledge regarding the problem of suicide, yet many fail to include information on the science and application of means reduction approaches. In an attempt to address this gap in practice, the Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) program was developed to educate clinicians on…
Descriptors: Suicide, Prevention, Mental Health, College Students
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Yanchen Zhang; Clay Cook; Lindsay Fallon; Catherine Corbin; Mark Ehrhart; Eric Brown; Jill Locke; Aaron Lyon – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2023
Emerging literature has highlighted the importance of discerning general and strategic organizational context (OC) factors (e.g., leadership and climate) and their interaction effect on individual implementation behaviors (e.g., attitudes toward evidence-based practices; EBPs) in youth mental healthcare. This study aimed to examine how leadership…
Descriptors: Youth, Mental Health Programs, School Activities, Prevention
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Nathaniel von der Embse; Andrew S. Jenkins; Kenneth Christensen; Stephen Kilgus; Maithili Mishra; Brianna Chin – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2021
Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is a novel system modeling technique that allows for the evaluation of the potential costs and personnel needed for mental health services in school. A case study is presented to illustrate how DES could be used by a school's decision makers to help plan for implementation of an integrated mental health service…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Costs, Personnel Needs, Models
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Julia Liu; B. Marshall; K. Cisneros; E. Jarpe-Ratner – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic elevated mental health needs among students. As such, in 2022 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) introduced the Comprehensive Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Policy to deliver mental health awareness and services to all pK-12th grade students. While transitioning back to in-person learning, an evaluation was…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Student Needs, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Smith, Alexandra C. G.; Crooks, Claire V. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2023
Background: There is a well-documented need for more responsive promotion and prevention programming for young immigrants and refugees in the context of mental health and healthy development. Incorporating the voice of newcomers in the development of promotion and prevention efforts could assist in producing culturally-relevant materials and…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Mental Health, Health Promotion, Prevention
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