Mental Health

This tool supports child welfare teams in preparing for and conducting a psychological safety assessment. Teams should debrief the results together and make a collaborative plan for growth. Learn more. 

This resource is designed to help child welfare teams build shared understanding of psychological safety, its connection to safety science, and the conditions associated with psychologically safe teams. Users can engage in individual reflections, team activities, and discussion to explore strategies for fostering psychological safety on their team. Learn more.   ...

Grants.gov Deadline: May 9, 2024, 8:59 pm ET  JustGrants Deadline: May 14, 2024, 8:59 pm ET  Solicitation Webinar: March 19, 2024, 2:00 pm ET. Register to attend.  With this solicitation (PDF, 33 pages), BJA will fund programs that support cross-system collaboration to improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental health ...

The Race Equity Challenge is designed to promote a culture of learning, reflection, and action among child welfare professionals. This Challenge is an opportunity for up to 500 child welfare professionals to participate in an experience that examines their own biases, identifies how these biases show up in child welfare, ...

This map highlights some of the organizations and efforts around the country working in one or more of the following roles to provide students with the academic, social, mental health, and other supports they need to recover from the impacts and disruptions of the pandemic and thrive:  Academic Tutors  Mentor  Post-Secondary Transition Coaches  Student ...

This four-part webinar series seeks to deepen practitioners’ ability to provide healing care to transitional-aged young people who access mental health and community-based services. Through generative conversation, expert panel discussions, active learning experiences, and the exploration of tangible action steps, participants will expand their existing orientation to their work with ...

ACF invites young people to get involved with We Think Twice™ by becoming a We Think Twice Insider. We Think Twice™ is a movement designed with teens, for teens, to help young people make healthy decisions, set goals, manage money, improve leadership skills, look out for their mental health, and ...

This publication (PDF, 5 pages) provides policy considerations to help states improve mental health service delivery for youth with marginalized racial identities through cultural responsiveness, health care access, and workforce supports. These considerations were drawn from a virtual roundtable on improving mental health service delivery for youth and young adults ...

May is National Adolescent Health Month (NAHM). NAHM emphasizes the importance of building on young people’s strengths and potential, encouraging meaningful youth engagement in adolescent health activities, and highlighting key topics in adolescent health. Weekly themes for the 2024 NAHM will be announced early Spring. Learn more. ...

This guide (PDF, 7 pages) introduces programs that are using intergenerational engagement to address social isolation and loneliness. The guide shares tips to help organizations build their own intergenerational programing. Learn more (PDF, 7 pages).