The Dallas (Texas) Public Schools established the first school‐based health center in the
United States in 1969. In 1993 a partnership between two school principals, a school mental …

Nancy D. Brener, Jim Martindale, Mark D. Weist istorically, school-based mental health
services have H focused on students in special education and typically have been …

Background: Schools are in a unique position not only to identify mental health problems
among children and adolescents but also to provide links to appropriate services. This …

This article describes the first national survey of mental health services in a representative
sample of the 83,000 United States (US) public elementary, middle, and high schools and …

The United States federal government has a vested interest in the mental health of children
and adolescents. It considers the current state of mental health care for children a public …

Through a variety of state and local funding and administrative arrangements, expanded
school mental health (ESMH) programs have been developed in nearly half of the 176 …

In response to psychosocial problems that affect schooling, school-based mental health
programs have proliferated. Available evidence, however, suggests such programs often are …

BACKGROUND: National policy statements increasingly espouse the delivery of
comprehensive mental health services in schools. In response to the limited evidence …

This review examines the history and contemporary landscape of school mental health,
describing evidence that schools are an essential component of the system of child and …

We surveyed 62 school administrators from three midatlantic (MD, VA, WV) and one
northeastern (CT) state on factors relevant to developing school-based mental health …