System Education Leaders Practice to Support Student Mental Health

Submitted: Mar 17, 2024 (06:59 pm)

System education leaders have a role in supporting student mental health in order to ensure optimum learning for all students.  Supporting mental health at the system level includes:

  • Promoting positive student mental health throughout the system
  • Ensuring resources and supports are in place to build student mental health capacity
  • Ensuring structures and processes are in place for early identification and intervention for students with mental health concerns
  • Developing partnerships and helping students and their families navigate pathways to access further mental health supports and services  

What system education leader practices are necessary to support student mental health in order to ensure optimum learning for all students throughout your school authority?  

March 27, 2024 (02:37 pm)
aubrey.fletcher says:
I was just at the webinar "A Systematic Approach to Promoting Positive Student Mental Health" and appreciated the notion of disruption presented by St Albert. We have to get uncomfortable in order to grow. Student voice was an essential element for creating change and ensuring optimum learning for ALL students... I think, at times, we focus on the FTE, the human resources but are we leveraging the human resources that are our students enough to create change with them....not just for them?
It was a great look at three different district responses to the need for formalized and thoughtful mental health support.