School Safety and Behavioral Health
Ensuring that our schools nurture the physical, mental, and social health of all students and staff is more important than ever. Whether you’re exploring where to begin or how to continually enhance your efforts, there’s no need to “go it alone.”
IU13 provides a range of consulting, training, and technical assistance in the areas of behavioral health, school climate, and equity. Please see below for a variety of resources in these areas.
To learn more or to explore how IU13 can support your efforts in these areas, please contact us:
Behavioral Health & School Safety:
Susan Billy (susan_billy@iu13.org, 717-606-1622)
School Climate & Equity:
Dr. Lauren Beal (lauren_beal@iu13.org, 717-947-1417)
Behavioral Health and School Safety Resources
Crisis Lifelines:
- Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, dial or text 988 or visit the website – https://988lifeline.org/
- Crisis Text Line: TEXT 741-741 or visit the website – http://www.crisistextline.org/
General Behavioral Health/School Safety Resources
- Pennsylvania Network for Student Assistance Services – www.pnsas.org
- Pennsylvania Department of Education Office for Safe Schools – https://www.education.pa.gov/Schools/safeschools
- Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency – www.pccd.pa.gov
Bullying Prevention
Mental Health
- Mental Health Resources/PDE – https://www.education.pa.gov/Schools/safeschools/MentalHealth
- Trauma
- Grief and Loss
- Crisis Intervention
- Alcohol and Other Drugs
- Equitable Practices Toolkit – https://www.education.pa.gov/EIB/Pages/default.aspx
- Mental Health America –
https://mhanational.org/
School Climate
- Pennsylvania Department of Education – https://www.education.pa.gov/Schools/safeschools/SchoolClimate
- National School Climate Center – https://www.schoolclimate.org
Social Emotional Learning
- Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning – https://casel.org/
Suicide Prevention
Pennsylvania Resources:
- Crisis Intervention by County – https://www.dhs.pa.gov/Services/Mental-Health-In-PA/Pages/Crisis-Intervention.aspx
- County CASSP and Children’s Mental Health Coordinators: https://www.dhs.pa.gov/Services/Mental-Health-In-PA/Pages/CASSP.aspx
- County Suicide Prevention Task Forces – https://www.preventsuicidepa.org/task-force-county-init/
- Mental Health in PA – Resources for mental health and substance use disorder: https://www.dhs.pa.gov/Services/Mental-Health-In-PA/Pages/default.aspx
- Prevent Suicide PA: http://www.preventsuicidepa.org/
- Jana Marie Foundation: http://www.janamariefoundation.org/
- Services for Teens at Risk (STAR-Center): https://www.starcenter.pitt.edu/STAR-Center-Home/1/Default.aspx
- Pennsylvania Department of Education https://www.education.pa.gov/Pages/default.aspx
- PA Parent and Family Alliance https://www.paparentandfamilyalliance.org/
National Resources:
- Aevidum: https://aevidum.org/
- American Association of Suicidology (AAS): http://www.suicidology.org/
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP): https://www.afsp.org/
- Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC): http://www.sprc.org/
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools: https://store.samhsa.gov/product/Preventing-Suicide-A-Toolkit-for-High-Schools/SMA12-4669
Flight Team/Crisis Response
- Collaboration with KPETS of Lancaster to deploy therapy dog teams with Flight Team deployment – https://kpets.org/
