On behalf of all of us at Effective School Solutions, Happy Mental Health Awareness Month! We have compiled this guide to serve as a toolkit and collection of resources to help you use this period of time as a way to stimulate dialogue and conversation in your school districts and communities about how we can all work together to support mental health, particularly the mental health of students, their parents, and the educators who serve them.

Mental health is essential to everyone’s overall health and well-being, and it is critical to reduce the stigma associated with mental health struggles. Our guide provides a few practical tools that everyone can use to improve mental health and increase resiliency.

I hope that you find this toolkit helpful, and thanks for all that you do to support students, parents, and educators.

— Duncan F. Young, CEO