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    This document provides recommendations for schools to end mental health stigma by developing a shared language around mental health, providing education to promote understanding, and removing barriers to access support. It suggests schools work with leadership and a team to establish a normalizing framework and vocabulary, educate all stakeholders, and reinforce the language. It also recommends communicating that mental health exists on a continuum, challenges are normal, and treatments are effective, while building universal prevention supports like nutrition, exercise, and connections to caring adults.

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    Create A Shared Language: (TIP: Use The Shared Language You Developed When You Provide Education)

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    This document provides recommendations for schools to end mental health stigma by developing a shared language around mental health, providing education to promote understanding, and removing barriers to access support. It suggests schools work with leadership and a team to establish a normalizing framework and vocabulary, educate all stakeholders, and reinforce the language. It also recommends communicating that mental health exists on a continuum, challenges are normal, and treatments are effective, while building universal prevention supports like nutrition, exercise, and connections to caring adults.

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    End Mental Health #End

    Mental
    Stigma in Your School 
    Health
    Create a Shared Language
    Stigma
      with school leadership to:
    Work
    Increase awareness of language used in your school around mental health
    Work with a school team to develop the language you want to use to describe mental health in your school.
    (TIP: Using the concepts, language and vocabulary you learn in this course is a great starting place!)
    Ensure the language frames mental health on a continuum and is normalizing, welcoming, and non-
    stigmatizing
    Educate all staff on the frame, language and vocabulary you are building
    Educate all students about your schools’ shared language and why it is important
    Provide opportunities for reinforcing shared language in day to day interactions

    Provide Education
    Help school staff, students, and caregivers understand mental health, its origins, how to build mental
    health and wellbeing, and access supports when needed.
    (TIP: Use the shared language you developed when you provide education)
    Communicate that:
    mental health exists on a continuum and challenges are normal
    there is nothing “wrong” with a person who experiences a mental health challenge
    evidence based treatments are available and effective for youth who struggle with severe mental health
    challenges that interfere with their life functioning
    people with mental health challenges can recover
    there are things everyone can do to build the school community’s health and wellbeing

    Remove Barriers
    Remove both perceptual and concrete barriers
    Perceptual barriers deal with perceptions of mental health (e.g., stigma)
    Concrete barriers are things that get in the way of a person accessing supports (not understanding who to
    ask for help or how the mental health system works)
    Make sure all staff, students and parents
    know how and who to contact at your school if there is a concern
    understand the mental health system at your school

    Universal Supports & Prevention


    Build activities and knowledge about building mental health into existing mental health supports.
    Provide adequate nutrition, opportunities to exercise and to build emotion identification and regulation 
    Ensure that every student is connected to at least one caring adult at school 

    Center for Resilience & Wellbeing in Schools


    nctsn.org

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