Protect and Prioritize Students with Higher Needs

Based on the U.S. Surgeon General’s Protecting Youth Mental Health advisory, this Protect and prioritize students with higher needs and those at higher risk of mental health challenges (from our What Educators, School Staff, and School Districts Can Do series) highlights 7 important steps that educators, school staff, and school districts can take to protect children and young people especially those with higher risks of mental health challenges.

1. Recognize signs of needs.

2. Advocate for and support students.

3. Students with disabilities.

4. Students with mental health challenges.

5. Mental health challenges in their family.

6. Adverse childhood experiences.

7. Ecological issues, like poverty.

To read the full Protecting Youth Mental Health advisory, please visit: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-youth-mental-health-advisory.pdf