The education system plays an important role in contributing to enhanced positive mental health in children and youth. Promoting and supporting positive mental health and welcoming, caring, respectful, and safe learning environments is vital to ensuring children and youth are resilient better able to learn, achieve success and build healthy relationships. This is the shared responsibility of parents, educators, community and government. Alberta Education website https://www.alberta.ca/mental-health-in-schools#jumplinks-0
How will you show that students’ mental health has improved?
What evidence will you use?
Referrals for service decreasing? Referrals for service rising as more students ask for help? A decrease in suspensions, absenteeism rates. Develop a self reflection tool to have students report their current mental state (perhaps a scale 1-10), Discussed the How do feel? which is for adults. Decrease in suicide ideation. Involve practitioners in developing metrics and seek detailed information from them.