| The Center approaches mental health and
psychosocial concerns from the broad perspective of
addressing barriers to learning and promoting healthy
development. Specific attention is given to polices and
strategies that can counter fragmentation and enhance
collaboration between school and community programs. Our
Mission
To improve outcomes for young people by
enhancing policies, programs, and practices relevant to
mental health in schools.
Center
Aims
- To advance efforts designed to plan,
implement, and evaluate school-based programs in an
increasingly coordinated and integrated fashion.
- To analyze and discuss current programs and needs in ways
that contribute to the systematic formulation of theory,
research, practice, and policy
- To develop new programmatic models for school-based
interventions and participate in their implementation and
evaluation
- To demonstrate the value of school-university
collaboration in developing and evaluating interventions
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a listing of Center material go to http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/specres.htm Resources See
web site http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/gateway_sites.htm (Support for the Center comes in part from the Office of
Adolescent Health, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Title
V, Social Security Act), Health Resources and Services Adm.
(Project #U93 MC 00175) with co-funding from the Center for
Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration. Both are agencies of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.)
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