Supporting the SEL and Mental Health Needs of Students and Educators in the COVID-19 Era

DESE partnered with Education Development Center (EDC), Transforming Education, and Walker Cares to offer an optional 90-minute webinar about how districts can address the mental health needs of students and support their social and emotional learning (SEL) needs during the COVID-19 school closures. The partners followed up with a webinar focused on district-systems to support student and educator mental health during COVID-19. In addition to the webinars, the partners organized a set of resources, ideas, and supports for schools and districts.

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Webinars:

Supporting Students’ SEL and Mental Health Needs During COVID-19: Webinar Slides

• Webinar slides with speaker notes

• Watch the webinar recording

Establishing District-Wide Systems to Support the Mental Health Needs of Students and Educators during COVID-19

• Webinar recording on 4/17/20

• Webinar recording on 4/24/20

Massachusetts Resources:

• Mental Health and Wellbeing: Resources from School Districts across the Commonwealth

• Network of Care Massachusetts: Finding Behavioral Health Services

National COVID-19 School Resources:

• Information and Resources for Schools and School Personnel: US Department of Education: COVID-19 (“Coronavirus”)

• Health Crisis Resources: National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)

• COVID-19 Resources: National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH)

• Talking to kids about Coronavirus: Child Mind Institute

• Creating a PBIS Behavior Teaching Matrix for Remote Instruction: Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions (PBIS)

• 4 Resources to Support Students During the Pandemic through PBIS

• Behavioral Health Care Resources COVID-19: Resources from behavioral health care practitioners across the country

• The Training and Access Project (TAP) is an initiative within Boston Children’s Hospital Neighborhood Partnerships (BCHNP) that offers free online training modules related to addressing students’ social, emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs.

Crisis Support Resources:

• Samaritans: 1-877-870-4673 | https://samaritanshope.org/

• Crisis Text Line – Text “HOME” to 741741

• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 | https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

• National Sexual Assault Hotline": 1-800-656-4673 | https://www.rainn.org/

• National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 | https://www.thehotline.org/

• The Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386 | https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

• Trans Lifeline: 1-877-565-8860 | https://www.translifeline.org/

Telehealth Resources:

• OCR Issues Bulletin on Civil Rights Laws and HIPAA Flexibilities That Apply During the COVID-19 Emergency

• FERPA and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

• HIPAA, Civil Rights, and COVID-19 

Source

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Education Development Center (EDC), Transforming Education, and Walker Cares