Sharing – How schools can support mental health in high-needs areas
This is an important caveat to the idea of having mental health resources in schools. Not all schools are the same, and within a school, not every student is the same. Schools in poor areas where students are likely to be dealing with instability at home and poverty all around them have different mental health needs than kids living in a wealthy suburb. Programs designed to help families in poverty should be part of school mental health programs. As I’ve said many times, you can’t meditate or exercise your way out of poverty. A full-service mental health program would recognize the impact that something like poverty has on kids.
The deputy head of a school in the London Borough of Newham explains how efforts to improve mental health should be aligned with initiatives to address poverty and instability
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