Resources

Description Presented by Dr. Janis Whitlock, The Cutting Edge: Understanding Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Community Youth Populations, Part One. Self-injury is intentionally hurting the body (e.g. cutting, burning, etc.) but without suicidal intent. Because it often looks like a suicidal gestur...

Found within KSDE TASN ATBS School Mental Health Initiative's School Mental Health Resource, this informational section offers tips for school personnel on working with undocumented students and provides helpful resources.   Updated 2016.07  

Resource Description This facilitation guide is for use when presenting the Trauma, Toxic Stress, and Caregiver Well-Being: Practices for Fostering Resilience in Children/Youth and Caregivers training. The accompanying slide deck can be found here. Overview In recognition of the interest...

The Stress and Early Brain Growth resource provides critical information on the types of trauma young people may face, the toll it can take on a child's mental, physical, social, and emotional health and ways to bring about resilience and healing. This resource is written in simple to understand ...

Description Presented by Dr. Jim Raines, LCSW. Ethical Recordkeeping in School Mental Health - Part 2 addresses the remaining three aspects of ethical documentation according to the new NASW Code of Ethics: How records should be communicated to others; What and how much information fac...