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School Mental Health Capacity Building Partnership (SMH-CBP)

In May of 2006, NASBHC received a five-year cooperative agreement with the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) Division of Adolescent Health (DASH) to build capacity of state and local education agencies to provide effective and sustainable school mental health services to young people. Developed in collaboration with its partner organizations, steering committee, and workgroup members, NASBHC’s School Mental Health Capacity Building Partnership (SMH-CBP) is an initiative designed to disseminate model mental health policies, programs, and services to education agencies in order to improve access to high quality, school-based mental health services.

As part of this initiative, SMH-CBP conducted site visits to four early adopter states, Maryland , Missouri,, Ohio, and Oregon,  to learn about best practices related to school mental health at both the state and local levels. Summaries of lessons learned from discussion groups in each state and state-specific descriptions of programs and activities can be found by clicking on each state.


In addition, the SMH-CBP developed two documents that summarize common themes and strategies that emerged across the four early adopter states. These include

• "Top Ten Critical Factors to School Mental Health: What Early Adopters Say" (and one pager) a web-based document summarizing common themes and strategies related to advancing school mental health at the state level.A document and brochure 
• "What Students Have to Say about Mental Health" a web-based and print brochure communicating, directly from the perspective of youth, how schools can support students. The print brochure is available by contacting anewell@nasbhc.org.

• A matrix of national organizations  that provide school mental health capacity building assistance
• A list of capacity building assessment tools  that builds the capacities in five key areas: planning, collaboration cultural competence, quality improvement, and surveillance

NASBHC is currently developing professional development and training resources in the following four core knowledge areas:

1. School Mental Health Overview and Fundamentals
2. Marketing School Mental Health to School Administrators
3. School Mental Health Quality Assessment and Improvement
4. Statewide School Mental Health Planning