The School Connectedness - Improving Students' Lives monograph is the first in a planned series of monographs highlighting the best and promising practices for schools developed by the Military Child Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The report identifies and explores successful approaches for improving "school connectedness" - the belief by students that they are a valued and integral part of their school. Added 7/5/06

• School Mental Health Project Clearinghouse
• School Psychology Resources Online

Fact Sheets, Articles and Reports

• APA - Childhood Disorders
• Breaking The Silence - anti-stigma curricula for schools
• CMHS - A Glossary of Terms in Children's and Adolescents' Mental Health
• Legal strategies for challenging custody relinquishments
• Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders in Children and Adolescents (CMHS)
• Mood Disorders in Children and Adolescents
• Relinquishing custody to get mental health care - Read the Press release on the Bazelon Center's new publication
• Staying Together, a family advocate's handbook for preventing custody relinquishment

Mental Health Organizations

• The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)
• American Psychiatric Association (APA)
• At Health, Inc.
• Center for School Mental Health Assistance
• Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (CHADD)
• Children's Mental Health TA Center at Georgetown Univ. Child Development Center
• The Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
• Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of Florida
• Internet Mental Health
• National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
• National Association of School Psychologists
• National Mental Health Association
• National Mental Health Association Information Center
• National Mental Health Association Affiliate Directory
• National Mental Health & Education Center for Children and Families (NASP)
• Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health
• School Mental Health Project
• Search Institute

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
• Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
• Caring For Every Child's Mental Health: Communities Together Campaign
• Frontier Mental Health Services Network (CMHS)
• Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN)
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• National Institute of Mental Health
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB)

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