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California Mental Health Prevention Effort Is Showing Positive Early Results
An effort to improve mental health prevention and early intervention in California is showing positive early results for programs targeted at reducing stigma and discrimination, educating the public about suicide prevention, and improving the mental health of students.
Feb 3, 2015
Report
Mental Health Trainings in California's Higher Education System Are Associated with Increased Confidence and Likelihood to Intervene with and Refer Students
Reports on an evaluation of California mental health trainings offered to staff and students in California's higher education system.
Feb 2, 2015
Report
Mental Health Trainings in California's K-12 System Are Associated with Increased Confidence and Likelihood to Intervene with and Refer Students
Reports on an evaluation of California mental health trainings offered to staff in California's K-12 system.
Feb 2, 2015
Journal Article
Two Strategies Make the Grade in Helping Kids Get Healthier
Schools use a number of strategies to increase students' physical activity—before- and after-school programs, extended PE classes, and short activity breaks—but does their impact outweigh their costs? Two strategies proved superior in terms of reach and cost per student.
Dec 19, 2014
Journal Article
Early Intervention for Abused Children in the School Setting
This chapter describes the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) program, how it addresses child abuse specifically, the theoretical rationale for the program, and the evidence supporting its effectiveness.
Nov 21, 2014
Blog
How Schools Can Help Students with Traumatic Stress
Schools are in a unique position to recognize traumatic stress in children. But first, adults throughout the school system—teachers, staff, administrators, school resource officers, and parents—must be aware of the issue, know how to detect signs of trauma exposure, and create a supportive environment.
Oct 2, 2014
Report
California K–12 Schools and Communities Collaborate to Support Student Mental Health
Report evaluates the development, quality, and effectiveness of collaboration activities among California K-12 Student Mental Health program partners.
May 27, 2014
Solution
Helping Children Cope with Trauma: A School-Based Intervention
Exposure to violent events or other trauma can inflict lasting emotional damage on children. Yet a high percentage of children affected by trauma never receive treatment.
Dec 20, 2013
Journal Article
Voluntary After-School Program Can Reduce Alcohol Use Among Middle School Children
If prevention researchers build programs with developmentally relevant content, and provide this content in an engaging, confidential, and non-judgmental way, it can help middle school-aged children avoid alcohol.
Aug 1, 2012
Journal Article
Schools Can Be a Powerful Setting for PTSD Interventions
The Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools Program (CBITS) is a targeted intervention for school children who have experienced a traumatic or violent event and have symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder.
Jan 1, 2012
Journal Article
The Role of Teachers in School-Based Suicide Prevention: A Qualitative Study of School Staff Perspectives
This study examined teacher roles in the implementation of a district-wide suicide prevention program through focus groups and interviews with middle school teachers, administrators, and other school personnel.
Dec 1, 2011
Journal Article
Multisite Cost Analysis of a School-Based Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program
The large cross-school variation in the cost of implementing Project CHOICE (a voluntary after-school prevention program for adolescents) highlights the importance of collecting cost information from multiple sites.
Sep 1, 2011
Journal Article
Effects on School Outcomes in Low-Income Minority Youth: Preliminary Findings from a Community-Partnered Study of a School-Based Trauma Intervention
Through a collaborative partnership between school staff and researchers, preliminary evidence suggests that receiving a school trauma intervention soon after screening compared to delaying treatment can result in better school grades.
Jun 1, 2011
Research Brief
Helping Children Cope with Violence and Trauma: A School-Based Program That Works
The Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) reduces symptoms of post-traumatic stress and depression in students exposed to violence. Free web-based training to deliver CBITS is available for mental health professionals.
May 9, 2011
Journal Article
Increasing the Availability and Consumption of Drinking Water in Middle Schools: A Pilot Study
The authors assessed the acceptability, feasibility, and outcomes of a school-based intervention to improve drinking water consumption among adolescents.
May 1, 2011
Journal Article
Evidence-based Mental Health Programs in Schools: Barriers and Facilitators of Successful Implementation
Schools with greater support from administrative leadership and clinician networks are more successful in implementing evidence-based mental health programs to help students deal with the impact of traumatic events.
Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article
Perceptions About Availability and Adequacy of Drinking Water in a Large California School District
This study of perceptions of drinking water in a California school district found that school staff and public health officials have a range of concerns about water quality and availability; as some schools move to replace sugary drinks in schools and develop policies to promote water consumption, they should explore ways of addressing these concerns.
Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article
School Personnel Perspectives on Their School's Implementation of a School-Based Suicide Prevention Program
This study of a district-wide suicide prevention program found that schools whose implementation focused on at-risk students had better results.
Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article
Improving Disaster Mental Health Care in Schools: a Community-Partnered Approach
After events like Hurricane Katrina, school-based counselors need resources to help students with the traumatic experience as well as pre-existing mental health conditions; centralized information to identify services; and support for self-care.
Nov 30, 2009
Journal Article
Recanting of Life-Time Inhalant Use: How Big a Problem and What to Make of It
To establish the prevalence of recanting of life-time inhalant use, the authors identify correlates of recanting to gain insight to its causes and develop a method for distinguishing recanters who truly are versus are not life-time users of inhalants.
Jan 1, 2009

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Gabriela Alvarado

Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND, and Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School

Gabriela Alvarado is an assistant policy researcher at RAND and a Ph.D candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She has a masters in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a masters in anthropology from Georgia State University, and a medical degree from the…
Courtney Ann Kase

Policy Analyst

Courtney Ann Kase is a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. She has experience in program evaluation, qualitative research, and project management. Kase is currently working on evaluation of community-based behavioral health centers' mental health and physical health service integration under…

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