A step-by-step guide, for regional or county teams, through the stages it takes to implement an initiative. Specifically, this includes creating a plan, formalizing agreements through contracts, and creating high level strategies. (Alameda County Center for Healthy Schools and Communities)
A guide, for school district or school site teams, with background information on teaming, best practices, possible action steps, examples from the field, and resources. (National Center for School Mental Health)
Descriptions of how local entities in seven counties are partnering to advance school-based mental health services. Information is provided about what services are included in the initiatives, who the lead partners are and how the partnerships evolved, how coordination is supported, and what funding is leveraged. (California School-Based Health Alliance)
Summaries of grants awarded to establish mental health partnerships between County Mental Health or Behavioral Health Departments and educational entities. (Mental Health Oversight and Accountability Commission)
A resource for understanding the types of regional partner organizations for delivering school mental health services and programs. (California School-Based Health Alliance)
Where should your team start? Do you provide services to schools throughout the county, district, and/or SELPA? Or should you focus on a subset first? How do you decide where to start? This resource highlights examples of scope from a couple counties and identifies some key questions to consider when planning where to start. (California School-Based Health Alliance)
This guide provides a framework to connect school mental health services with PBIS. It includes many resources and tools for developing the systems, collaborations, and practices to do this work. Some helpful tools for partnerships include:
- Appendix B, Building an Inclusive Community of Practice – Four Simple Questions (page 144)
- Appendix E, Implementation Guide: District and Community Cross Systems Team (page 150)
(Center on PBIS)
An online learning environment for use by any stakeholder involved in active implementation and scaling up of programs and innovation. Some specific tools:
(National Implementation Research Network)
MOUs
A template illustrating the components of an MOU that school-community partnerships may include. You will also need to consider relevant state law in any contract development in California. (National Center for School Mental Health)
Sample MOUs/Other Agreements
An LOA between an LEA and school-based mental health provider. (Alameda County)
A working agreement between a participating school district, county office of education, and county behavioral health department. (Monterey County)
Boilerplate contract between county behavioral health department and school district for the provision of therapeutic services for students in the district. (Monterey County)
An MOU for a county-level partnership across various youth-serving agencies and entities. (Placer County)
Example of Team Agendas
An example of the discussion topics and content covered at monthly leadership team meetings. This is a helpful resource for considering how to onboard members and build a monthly calendar of coordination meetings.