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Bringing Into Focus: Tele-Mental Health NCSSLE' s Bringing Into Focus shares carefully selected, high quality resources on timely topics to help educators create safe, supportive learning environments. 

Schools have become the most effective venue for delivery of mental health services and support to children and youth. Wide scale school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have generated a demand for telehealth resources and strategies so that students can continue to depend on mental health services that schools provide.

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This Edutopia article discusses new approaches being developed and deployed by counselors, social workers, teachers and classmates to reach and support students without direct access to school-based services.   It includes links to videos that provide technical guidance and support related to virtual therapy and embedding social and emotional learning practices into distance learning.

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Tele-Mental Health 101 Source: Jennifer Cox, LCSW-C, Director of the University of Maryland School Mental Health Program This training video was developed to help introduce tele-mental health practices to support students and families during the COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 Tele-Health Policy Changes Source: The Center for Connected Health Policy This webpage records state-by-state actions designed to reduce or remove policy barriers to telehealth utilization in existing state laws and policies.

Voices From The Field: Tele-Mental Health Source: National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE) This particular blog entry from Voices in the Field offers users the opportunity to learn more about what experts think of tele-mental health as well as the role it has played during the pandemic. The blog entry also provides information on the range of services that can be provided via tele-mental health. A Virtual Learning Guide for Professional Development  Source: Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network (MHTTC) This guide provides technical and interactive strategies and approaches to virtual learning to support the mental and school mental health workforce.

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National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments | https://safesupportivelearning.ed.gov The contents of the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments' Bringing Into Focus were assembled under a contract from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Supportive Schools to the American Institutes for Research (AIR), Contract Number ED-ESE-16-A-0002. The contents of this product do not necessarily represent the policy or views of the U.S. Department of Education, nor do they imply endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education. ‌ ‌ ‌