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Green, Jennifer Greif; Morabito, Melissa S.; Savage, Jenna; Maldonado-Reis, Thomas; Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; Becker, Laurie T.; Muller, Rebecca; Battal, Jill – School Mental Health, 2023
This study examines patterns and trends in 911 calls from Boston public school addresses related to mental health and physical assaults/fights generated from 2014 to 2018. We analyzed 12,113 Boston Police Department (BPD) 911 call records from 102 Boston Public School addresses during the 2014-2018 school years. In addition, we separately analyzed…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Police School Relationship, Crisis Intervention, Psychiatric Services
Hofer, Lindsey – National Association of State Boards of Education, 2017
Positive school climate has been linked to higher test scores, graduation rates, and fewer disciplinary referrals. Yet state policy discussions on student supports often fail to address a key lever for improving school climate: robust school-based mental health services. This National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) policy update…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Mental Health Programs, Psychiatric Services, Educational Policy
Collins, Mary Elizabeth; Mowbray, Carol T. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2008
Because of advances in psychotropic medications, psychiatric rehabilitation methods, the implementation of civil rights legislation, and empowerment movement of consumers with psychiatric disabilities, students with mental illnesses are increasingly able to access and complete higher education. Disability services offices on college campuses can…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Disabilities
Hodges, Kay; Leaf, Phillip J.; Behar, Lenore B.; Hersch, Phyllis; Irvin, Elizabeth; Lemoine, Randall L.; Stelle, Lynn; Speier, Tony; Ellzey, Sally; Pine, Jo; Schwartz, Aimee; Perkins, Stephen – 1996
These four symposium papers provide examples of different states that have experimented with various criteria and approaches in developing youth mental health services. The four states profiled, North Carolina, Arizona, Louisiana, and Massachusetts, are using the Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale (CAFAS) to assess impairment in…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adolescents, Children, Eligibility
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Altaffer, Fred; Fisher, William – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1992
Issues involved in applying the needs assessment model of the Colorado Social Health Survey to planning and management in Massachusetts are reviewed. The methodology in this special issue provides a new paradigm for mental health needs assessment in general and will be valuable in the Massachusetts plan specifically. (SLD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Health Needs, Mental Health Programs, Models
Goodman, Lillian Rachel – 1969
The purpose of this study was (1) to develop a model of required functions and effective behaviors of psychiatric nurses in mental health programs in Massachusetts and (2) to construct a model of objectives of a continuing education program for them. Perceptual data concerning functions of nurses were gathered by interviews with authorities,…
Descriptors: Activities, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Objectives, Interviews