by Effective School Solutions — by Effective School Solutions Literary scholars can debate about the layers of meaning associated with the opening lines of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land that refers to April as the “cruelest month”. …

By Effective School Solutions — By Effective School Solutions In recent months there’s been a lot of attention on the mental health crisis affecting our country’s young people. We’ve heard from the President and the U.S. …

by Coleen Vanderbeek, Psy.D, LPC., Lucille Carr-Kaffashan, Ph.D. — by Coleen Vanderbeek, Psy.D, LPC., Lucille Carr-Kaffashan, Ph.D. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the lives of students across the United States and around the world. …

By Effective School Solutions — By Effective School Solutions As the COVID-19 pandemic descended on the country in early spring of 2020 school districts everywhere turned on a dime to completely reconfigure the school day. The abrupt and unprecedented transition to remote learning was a move no one was ready for, yet teachers and staff…

by Effective School Solutions — by Effective School Solutions “The COVID era is forcing school administrators to grapple with a very difficult task — how best to respond to a vulnerable student population who are acting out behaviorally, more now than ever before.” – Effective School Solutions staff member Heading into the current school year…

By Duncan Young, CEO, Effective School Solutions & Amy Kennedy, Education Director, The Kennedy Forum — By Duncan Young, CEO, Effective School Solutions & Amy Kennedy, Education Director, The Kennedy Forum There is no greater issue facing our education system today than the degradation in student mental health outcomes, including both higher numbers of students presenting with mental health challenges, as well as increased acuity levels…

by Lucille Carr-Kaffashan, Ph.D., Coleen Vanderbeek, Psy.D, LPC., Melissa Tooles, LPCMH, M.Ed — by Lucille Carr-Kaffashan, Ph.D., Coleen Vanderbeek, Psy.D, LPC., Melissa Tooles, LPCMH, M.Ed In recent years, especially since the surge in child/adolescent mental health concerns, schools have moved steadily in the direction of providing onsite mental health services for students. Perhaps the COVID-19 crisis will be recognized in years to come…

by Lucille Carr-Kaffashan, Ph.D. Jordan Katz, LSW, Gerard Barone, LCSW — by Lucille Carr-Kaffashan, Ph.D. Jordan Katz, LSW, Gerard Barone, LCSW Much has been written about the youth mental health crisis and how it has been both accelerated and intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the resumption of full-day in-person learning this past fall, everyone had high hopes that the new…

by Amy Kennedy, Education Director, The Kennedy Forum, and Duncan Young, CEO, Effective School Solutions — by Amy Kennedy, Education Director, The Kennedy Forum, and Duncan Young, CEO, Effective School Solutions Our nation is at a critical inflection point when it comes to school-based mental health. Just this past December, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an official advisory, “Protecting Youth Mental Health,” warning that America’s…