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Project AWARE

Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resilience in Education) is a SAMHSA-funded initiative focused on the mental health of youth in schools, aged 12-17. Project AWARE funds state, tribal, territorial, and local education agencies to increase awareness of youth mental health; provide mental health training to school personnel and other adults who interact with youth; and connect youth and their families to mental health services.

Below are a few of the resources that were developed to support Project AWARE grantees. To watch the many Project AWARE webinars, visit SAMHSA’s Now Is The Time (NITT) Technical Assistance Center YouTube playlist.

For more on Project AWARE topics, visit our Resources page to find information and tools from our School-based Services Transformation Team.

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School Employee Wellness: Strategies for System Transformation

This Project AWARE webinar provides participants with strategies for successfully cultivating climates that prioritize the ongoing wellbeing of staff. Staff wellbeing is essential to systems transformation.

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Well-Being: A Multi-System Framework

This Project AWARE webinar explores Casey Family Programs’s “Investing to Improve the Well-Being of Vulnerable Youth and Young Adults,” a new framework for well-being for young people across six domains.

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Microaggressions, Bias, and School Climate

This Project AWARE webinar is intended to help school staff understand what microaggressions are, how they are connected to school climate and student safety, and how to recognize and interrupt microaggressions on campus

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Suicide Prevention in Schools

This Project AWARE issue brief offers school leaders ways to take action, collaborate with communities, and empower youth and families for suicide prevention.

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Adolescent Depression in the Schools: Evidence-Based Prevention and Intervention Programs

This Project AWARE brief covers key considerations for schools to assess and treat major depression in adolescents. It also describes the costs and benefits of several best-practice, school-based depression strategies appropriate for different MTSS tiers.

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Trauma-Informed Practices in Schools

This Project AWARE resource is a brief introduction to trauma-informed practice and a list of evidence-based and promising interventions that can be implemented in schools to support resilience and healing.

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First Episode Psychosis: How Schools can Support Students

While schools are a natural place for early intervention of First Episode Psychosis, school personnel are often not resourced to effectively support students with FEP. This Project AWARE issue brief explores identification, intervention, and support strategies.

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School Mental Health Referral Pathways Toolkit

This Project AWARE Toolkit provides best-practice guidance and practical tools and strategies to improve coordination and collaboration, both within schools and between schools and other youth-serving agencies.

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Implementation Science and Practice in the Educator Sector

This Project AWARE issue brief is written for education agency leadership, school administrators, and school mental health staff who are involved in driving the implementation of evidence-based practices and innovative practices within schools.

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New Approaches to Youth Violence Prevention in Schools

This Project AWARE issue brief offers school leaders ways to take action, collaborate with communities, and empower youth and families for suicide prevention.

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