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This brief provides resources that can be used by school-based health centers (SBHCs), comprehensive school mental health systems (CSMHSs), and school health and mental health providers. It serves as a “pathway” guide, with tools and practical strategies, for identifying root causes of identified or emerging problems. It also can assist with planning effective interventions to reduce social and environmental barriers to learning as well as enhance home and community strengths. It uses a public health approach to identify collective solutions to address community and population-based health and mental health challenges.
Developed by the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, the School-Based Health Alliance, and the National Center for School Mental Health, it is part of a series of publications to support the advancement of tools to understand and address SIHE.