Promoting Mental Health and Well-Being in Schools: CDC’s New Action Guide
Event Details
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new action guide for school and district leaders shares six strategies schools can use to promote student mental health and well-being. The new guide, Promoting Mental Health and Well-Being in Schools: An Action Guide for School and District Leaders, can help schools build on what they are already doing to promote students’ mental health and find new strategies to fill in gaps. Recent data from CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary and Trends Report: 2011–2021 showed that adolescent mental health has been worsening for more than a decade and that key indicators of poor mental health have reached alarming levels. This action guide describes in-school strategies proven to promote and support mental health and well-being. It also details specific approaches to put each strategy into action and provides examples of evidence-based policies, programs and practices. These strategies can help improve students’ mental health and well-being and also helps ensure young people’s mental health and well-being doesn’t continue to worsen during the next decade.
Learning Objectives:
After viewing this webinar, you will be able to:
- Discuss the latest CDC data on adolescent health and well-being
- Identify six strategies for promoting mental health and well-being in schools
- Identify considerations to implement approaches with a focus on equitable outcomes for all students
Presenters:
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Kathleen Ethier, Ph.D., Director, Division of Adolescent and School Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Kathleen Ethier is a social psychologist and the Director of CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. She has served as a leader at CDC in adolescent health as well as other capacities since 1999. Prior to joining CDC, Dr. Ethier spent six years on the research faculty at Yale University studying HIV, STDs, and unplanned pregnancy prevention among women and adolescents. Her research has primarily focused on psychosocial, behavioral, and environmental factors related to adolescent mental and physical health. Dr. Ethier earned her PhD in social psychology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Jan. 11, 2024, 1-2 p.m. Eastern
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