Practice & Programs

Programs

Baltimore City Mental Health Programs

The School Mental Health Program (SMHP) team is dedicated to removing barriers to learning and creating a safe and nurturing learning environment in which students and families are able to rapidly access a range of culturally sensitive and effective prevention and therapeutic services that promote wellness and academic success. More >

Prince George's School Mental Health Initiative (PGSMHI)

The goal of the PGSMHI is to provide an integrated model of mental health services in the least restrictive setting to students with emotional/behavioral disorders in Prince George’s County Public Schools who are at risk of attending non-public special education programs. More >

Practice

Baltimore's Bounce Back for Classrooms

Bounce Back for Classrooms offers the opportunity to provide core cognitive behavioral trauma-informed strategies to a larger number of students in the classroom. We refer to this as a Tier 1.5 intervention, delivered at the Tier 1 level, but offering Tier 2 strategies and skills. More >

Expanding the SMHP FAMILY

This project seeks to enhance the capacities of school-based stakeholders for supporting the growing mental health needs of youth by providing family education programming, implementing educator training, and bolstering universal interventions provided to youth and families during and after school hours. More >

Mental Health Literacy in Baltimore City Public Schools

With higher rates of mental health challenges resulting from the pandemic, psychoeducational and skill-building curriculums in classrooms offer the opportunity to reach a larger number of students and to equip them with critical coping and problem-solving skills. The Baltimore City School Mental Health Program will implement a mental health literacy (MHL) curriculum to reduce stigma, increase mental health knowledge, and enhance students' coping capacities. More >

Telemental Health in Schools

The integration of telepsychiatry into school-based mental health has the potential to increase access to services and improve efficiency of service delivery. However, very few programs that focus on school-based telepsychiatry exist. The University of Maryland School Mental Health Program (SMHP) began providing mental health services in 1989. The SMHP currently provides universal mental health promotion, early identification, prevention and intervention services in 27 Baltimore City Public Schools. More >