The UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools & Student/Learning Supports is stressing the importance of re-opening schools with a different perspective on mental health concerns. The COVID-19 pandemic and protests across our nation regarding racial injustice ensure there will be a growing number of mental health concerns at schools (along with more learning and behavior problems). Schools will need to address all this at a time when budgets are tightening. To do so, they will need to expand their approach beyond current multi‑tiered (MTSS) thinking.
According to UCLA’s Howard Adelman and Linda Taylor, “We are at a societal turning point. It must be a turning point for how schools work with families and communities to address the problems and well-being of children and youth. In particular, schools must transform how they work to prevent and ameliorate the many problems experienced by too many students. There is much work to be done as public schools across the country strive to enhance equity of opportunity by meeting the needs of the many as well as the few.”
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