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Based Behavioral Health (SBBH)
The Children’s Bureau has been working with the Department
of Education in working to ensuring that schools are caring and
supportive places that maximize learning as well as social, emotional,
and behavioral development. SBBH will bring together schools, county
mental health programs, and community resources to develop a continuum
of services that enable children to have their educational and mental
health needs met within their school districts. The Children’s
Bureau is moving forward in several areas of the state to support
school-based mental health initiatives.
Student
Assistance Program (SAP)
The Student Assistance Program (SAP) is a collaborative effort between
the Pennsylvania Departments of Education, Health and Welfare that
is comprised of school personnel and behavioral health professionals.
The primary goal of the program is to address barriers to learning
and to enhance student success. SAP is operating in all 501 school
districts throughout the Commonwealth.
School-Wide
Positive Behavior Support: A Plan for Pennsylvania
The Education Law Center recently released a report on School-Wide
Positive Behavior Support, which is a research-based, highly effective,
approach to creating, teaching, and reinforcing students’
social, emotional, and academic learning skills that improves and
sustains academic achievement and mental and emotional wellbeing
of all students. Other states that have implemented PBS have reduced
disciplinary referrals, increased students’ academic achievement,
and improved school climate and safety. Pennsylvania has already
started to implement PBS through a small pilot project. A workgroup
of the OMHSAS Children's Advisory Committee is developing a white
paper on positive behavior support that will recommend its implementation
in all 501 school districts in Pennsylvania.
National
Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavior and Intervention
Supports
Funded by the Office of Special Education Programs in the US Department
of Education, the National Technical Assistance Center on Positive
Behavior and Intervention Supports was established to address the
behavioral and discipline systems needed for successful learning
and social development of students. The Center provides capacity-building
information and technical support about behavioral systems to assist
states.
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