This project is a novel and systematic multi-tiered approach to service delivery and applied experiences. It will utilize a tele-outreach strategy to REL recruit students from San Juan, Utah into psychology majors. There is an immense need to address the mental health workforce and stigma in San Juan. The proposed project will also provide participants with a training in mental and behavioral health as a bridge to a career in the mental health workforce.

This grant funded project involves evaluating the effectiveness of a multi-tiered school mental health program on rural student wellbeing.  The school mental health program will provide technical assistance in developing and setting up social-emotional curriculum and as well as aligning services within schools and between schools and community supports (including community mental health, physicians, psychiatrists). If found to be effective, the procedures investigated may provide a model for addressing student wellbeing in rural areas, and promote an effective model for setting up school mental health systems across Utah.

School well-being screening is the process to identify the strengths and needs of a child. We screen all children three times across an academic year. Just like hearing and vision screeners completed with the school nurse, well being screeners are done by the school’s Well-Being Team (WBT).