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Leader in Me

Leader in Me, offered by Franklin Covey Education, provides lesson-based, teaching practices, and organizational strategies approaches to SEL. Leader in Me offers programming for grades K-12. A CASEL-approved evaluation demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades K-5. Resources are accessed via an online portal that offers structured lessons, extension activities, and professional development modules.

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

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Learning to Breathe

Learning to Breathe provides a lesson-based approach to SEL with a focus on intrapersonal competence through mindfulness. It includes programming at grades 9-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 10-12. Translated materials for Learning to Breathe are available in Chinese.

Grades
High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide
Program Outcomes
  • Improved SEL Skills and Attitudes

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Lifelines

Lifelines Prevention®: Building Knowledge and Skills to Prevent Suicide is a comprehensive, whole-school suicide prevention curriculum that educates school faculty, parents, and students on the facts about suicide and their respective roles as suicide “preventers”. This newly revised edition uses updated language and new topics to reflect today’s best practices and youth culture, and now also covers grades 5-6 and 11-12, in addition to grades 7-10.

Additional outcomes:

Increased awareness of suicide and risk factors, increased suicide knowledge, improvement in attitudes about referring a friend in distress

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home
Program Components
  • Understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
Program Outcomes
  • Improved attitude/behavior related to suicide
  • Increased help-seeking behavior

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Lifeskills

Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST) is a research-validated substance abuse prevention program proven to reduce the risks of alcohol, tobacco, drug abuse, and violence by targeting the major social and psychological factors that promote the initiation of substance use and other risky behaviors. This comprehensive and exciting program provides adolescents and young teens with the confidence and skills necessary to successfully handle challenging situations.

Program-specific outcomes:

  • Decreased alcohol use
  • Decreased substance use (e-cigarettes, marijuana, pills)
  • Increased student knowledge of health and risk
Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Community
Program Outcomes
  • Decreased substance use
  • Improved attitude/behavior related to substance use
  • Improved Identity Development/ Agency
  • Improved SEL Skills and Attitudes
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

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LivingWorks: safeTALK

This more in-depth training allows learners to practice skills and helps address myths and barriers around suicide. Learn to talk openly about suicide, reach out to someone with thoughts of suicide, and connect them with further support in a half-day, face-to-face workshop.

Additional outcomes:

Increased willingness to intervene, increased knowledge of suicide, increased confidence/willingness talking about suicide

Grades
High School (9-12)
Settings
Schoolwide Community
Program Components
  • Understanding common mental health disorders, signs and symptoms, and treatments
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
Program Outcomes
  • Improved attitude/behavior related to suicide
  • Increased help-seeking behavior

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LivingWorks: Start

A 90-minute online training that helps learners develop foundational skills to recognize when someone may be thinking of suicide and connect them to further help.

Grades
High School (9-12)

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Mental Health Essentials Student Curriculum

This course has been designed and is best suited for educators working with students in grades 7 to 10.

This is a non-credit, online curriculum that consists of 6 modules designed to be taught sequentially in 6-12 hours of classroom time. This sustainable, Train-the-Trainer model teaches educators how to implement the curriculum in their classrooms year after year. Modules include all course materials including learning objectives, lesson plans and all materials needed to deliver the curriculum in perpetuity. All student-facing materials are also translated into Spanish and Portuguese. Also includes one year of data collection and analysis via Osprey Research Group (pre/post surveys). After analysis, lifetime access to curriculum updates and quarterly Community of Practice Meeting access.

Learn more about this course, including program background and learning objectives, at Mental Health Collaborative.

Mental health literacy is the foundation for mental health promotion, prevention, and care and can be developed through classroom based curriculum implementation that has been scientifically shown to improve mental health related outcomes for students and also for their teachers. Curriculum aligns with National Health Education Standards and CASEL competencies.

In this course, educators will learn how to apply this classroom-ready, web-based, modular mental health curriculum resource as well as develop their own mental health literacy. Educators can then use this resource designed to be delivered to regular classrooms to successfully address mental health-related curriculum outcomes designed to be delivered by classroom teachers to students in grades 7 to 10.

Grades
Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom
Program Components
  • Understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
  • Understanding common mental health disorders, signs and symptoms, and treatments
  • Understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction
Program Outcomes
  • Advocate for reducing stigma associated with emotional and mental and behavioral health
  • Compare & contrast emotional, mental-behavioral illness, mental well-being and concurrent disorders
  • Explain how to help someone who is thinking about attempting suicide
  • Identify school and community resources that can help a person with emotional, mental and behavioral health concerns
  • Improved SEL Skills and Attitudes

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Mental Health Essentials: Beyond High School

Through these seminars, high school juniors and seniors will learn to :

– Recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illnesses

– Identify when, where, and how to access professional support

– Explore ways to design a fulfilling life as they transition to independence

– Apply strategies for healthy coping and self-care

Grades
High School (9-12)
Settings
Schoolwide Community
Program Components
  • Understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction
  • Understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
  • Understanding common mental health disorders, signs and symptoms, and treatments

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Mental Health Essentials: Foundations for Teens

In this seminar, middle & high school students will learn to:

  • Develop an understanding of mental health and mental illnesses
  • Examine stigma and its impact on seeking help
  • Identify when, where, and how to access professional support
  • Strengthen skills for maintaining their own mental health and supporting peers
Grades
Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Schoolwide Community
Program Components
  • Understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction
  • Understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
  • Understanding common mental health disorders, signs and symptoms, and treatments

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Merrells’s Strong Kids

Merrell’s Strong Kids provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades K-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness in grades 1-6. Translated materials for Merrell’s Strong Kids are available in Korean.

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home
Program Outcomes
  • Reduced Emotional Distress

The Mental Health Instruction library has recently added 100 new programs! As more come available, we will continue to grow.