Student Mental Health Programs and Services

The Vendor is required to provide ideas from people and organizations to answer the question of “what are the investments needed to shift how our schools and places of learning partner across the community to incorporate mental health and wellness into everyday
- We are interested in high-impact ideas that meet one or more of the following criteria: 
•    Expands, scales, or replicates a successful existing education-based program with developed metrics and measurable impact on mental health and wellbeing
•    Uses evidence-based practices to improve mental health at a particular developmental stage
•    Develops infrastructure for sustainability of mental health supports, including coaching and support for systems navigation and success planning
•    Supports the development of metrics in each of the educational settings 
•    Deploys innovative tools or approaches including “proof of concept” projects for promising practices or technology to break down silos and integrate services
- Projects including those that: 
•    Cover the whole state through an existing statewide entity or mechanism; or are locally focused, providing an opportunity to identify a strategy or intervention that could be scaled with additional resources
•    Are specific to a developmental stage, such as the emerging field of infant and toddler mental health; or address needs across the lifespan such as the cumulative impact of trauma over a lifetime and across generations 
•    Focus on high-impact, scalable direct services; or create a mechanism or technology that impacts the broader system.