The Mental Health Planning and Evaluation Template (MHPET)

The Mental Health Planning and Evaluation Template (MHPET) was developed by NASBHC in partnership with the Center for School Mental Health. The MHPET can be used in planning or evaluating new or established school mental health (SMH) programs and can be used in a school-based health center or in any school setting.

The MHPET is a 34-indicator online assessment tool that targets areas of strength and improvement in school-based mental health. It is organized into the following eight dimensions:

  • Operations
  • Stakeholder involvement
  • Staff and trainin
  • Identification, referral, and assessment
  • Service delivery
  • School coordination and collaboration
  • Community coordination and collaboration
  • Quality assessment and improvement

The MHPET is intended to be used as part of a quality assessment and improvement process. In determining whether to use the MHPET, please consider these three assumptions:

  1. SMH activities and services have the support of the sponsoring organization and the school and community being served.
  2. It is a shared responsibility of the providers, sponsoring organization, school, family, community, and youth partners to achieve the MHPET indicators, not the sole responsibility of the mental health service providers.
  3. If providing mental health services within a school-based health center (SBHC), the SBHC has adopted the NASBHC Principles and Goals of School-Based Health Care.
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