National Institute for Urban Schools Improvement

National Institute for Urban Schools Improvement. (2004). Mental Health in Urban Schools (Award No. H326B020002). Denver, CO: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs.

This article is part of a collection issued by the National Institute for Urban School Improvement for the advancement of inner city schools. The authors emphasize the need of mental health services in urban schools. This series addresses how mental health services in urban schools is about providing programs to promote social-emotional development, supporting the mental health of families, addressing systemic matters at schools that affect mental health, such as high stakes testing, and providing services to intervene as early after the onset of behavioral and emotional problems.

Adelman and Taylor argue that in order for positive promotion of these services to take place, fully integrating a mental health agenda into an urban school’s efforts to provide students with learning support would be required. The major systemic changes that will have to take place are the collaboration between school-owned resources and community-owned resources together to develop comprehensive and cohesive approaches for addressing barriers of learning and enhancing healthy development.

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