Mental Health
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Ed. Art. §7-1502(g)(2) directs MCSS to develop a website, which includes searchable school safety resources. Content on this page is reviewed and refreshed throughout the calendar year to remain current and responsive.
Resources & Support
The following resources are intended to supplement information in support of a comprehensive approach to school safety.
State and Federal Resources
Mental Health Association of Maryland
Maryland’s only volunteer nonprofit citizens organization brings together consumers, families, professionals, advocates, and concerned citizens for unified action in all aspects of behavioral health. The association envisions a just, humane, and healthy society where each individual is accorded respect, dignity, and the opportunity to achieve their full potential—free from stigma and prejudice.
Mental Health Association of Maryland
Maryland Department of Health Suicide Prevention
The Office of Suicide Prevention works with communities, organizations, and stakeholders to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and strengthen a culture that prioritizes mental health and well-being. Through education, collaboration, and open dialogue, people are empowered to recognize warning signs, offer support, and help ensure no one faces their challenges alone.
Maryland Department of Health Office of Suicide Prevention resources
Substance Use & Mental Health Services Administration
This website offers ways for educators to assist students and their families with mental health substance use problems.
National Organizations
National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement
Since 1990, this organization's experts have assisted hundreds of schools and communities in the U.S. and abroad to cope in the aftermath of tragedy, playing a vital role in helping to foster resilience after a crisis. This resource is dedicated to helping schools support their students through crisis and loss.
National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement
National Association of School Psychologists
The National Association of School Psychologists is committed to supporting accessible, high-quality education that prepares our children for college, work, and citizenship. Creating safe and supportive schools that are free from bullying, discrimination, harassment, aggression, violence, and abuse is essential to this mission. This resource can assist families and educators in bullying prevention.
National Association of School Psychologists
National Alliance on Mental Illness
NAMI provides advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives. Undiagnosed, untreated, and inadequately treated mental illnesses significantly interfere with a student’s ability to learn, to grow, and to develop.
National Alliance on Mental Illness
National Center for School Mental Health
Housed at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH) is a technical assistance and training center with a focus on advancing research, training, policy, and practice in school mental health. School mental health has, at its foundation, strong family-school-community partnerships with a shared goal of promoting positive academic and social-emotional-behavioral outcomes for all students.
National Center for School Mental Health
Maryland Nonprofit
Maryland Coalition of Families
The coalition works with caregivers and other loved ones to help them access needed support and services for their families, support and amplify the youth voice, and empower family members to advocate for improving services in all systems of care for children, youth, adults, and families.