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Building Bridges for Student Mental Health
Building Bridges for Student Mental Health is a joint initiative of the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) with the goal of establishing and enhancing productive, collaborative, and trustworthy relationships between state education leaders, medical experts, and families to improve student mental health. The COVID-19 pandemic […]
read moreHealthy School Facilities Network
The National Association of State Boards of Education has created the Healthy School Facilities Network (HSFN) to build and enhance the capacity of states to provide healthy school facilities. A 2021 NASBE landscape analysis of state-level programs for testing lead in school drinking water found states encounter challenges in the areas of outreach and coordination, transparent communication, […]
read moreStates Ramp Up Efforts to Combat Student Substance Abuse
Added concerns about the pandemic’s impact on youth mental and physical health and recent spikes in adolescent mortality rates due to illicit fentanyl use have spurred some states to reexamine how they approach substance abuse education and prevention in schools, according to a new NASBE policy update.
read moreSupporting School Efforts to Combat Substance Abuse
Mortality rates from overdose in adolescents rose by 94 percent in 2020, largely due to illicit fentanyl.
read moreStates Can Do More to Leverage Federal Funding to Support School Based Health Services
NASBE analysis finds school-based health services are a powerful, yet underused strategy to expand equitable healthcare to students.
read moreEnhancing School-Based Health Services
School-based health services (SBHS) are a powerful, yet underused strategy to expand equitable healthcare to students.
read moreInvesting Equitably in School Facilities
With newly available federal infrastructure funding, states can direct resources toward school facilities with the most need.
read moreNASBE Recruits Five States for Healthy School Facilities Network
NASBE is launching a new Healthy School Facilities (HSF) Network! We will select 5 states to participate, and each state will receive a grant of $10,000 to support staff work time and to convene in-state stakeholder meetings.
read moreStates Adopt Trauma-Informed Teacher Training, Few Consider Secondary Traumatic Stress
Embed trauma-informed practices in mandated teacher training can ensure that schools reduce the risks to teachers from STS, according to NASBE analysis.
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