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Steven B. Harrod; Sayward E. Harrison; Samuel D. McQuillin; Mark D. Weist – American Journal of Health Education, 2024
Background: The opioid epidemic has created unprecedented challenges in the United States (US), including hundreds of thousands of lives lost to overdose in the past five years. Expansion of prevention and treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) is urgently needed, as evidence-based strategies exist but many remain unable to access life-saving…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Schools, Drug Abuse, Addictive Behavior
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Mark D. Weist; Andy Garbacz; Brandon Schultz; Catherine P. Bradshaw; Kathleen Lynne Lane – Prevention Science, 2024
As the public health framework has been implemented in schools through multi-tiered systems of support, as in Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), a prominent interpretation has been that 80% of students will benefit from universal or Tier 1 schoolwide behavior support, around 15% will require added selective or Tier 2 targeted…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Positive Behavior Supports, Multi Tiered Systems of Support
Anna Grace Coates; Hannah Knott; Darien Collins; Lori Parrish; Samuel D. McQuillin; Mark D. Weist – Communique, 2024
Anyone who works in a school setting keenly feels the impact of COVID-19 on youth and families. They can remember the exhaustion and dysfunction that rippled out during the pandemic, and they can still see it today. The School Behavioral Health Academy (SBHA) responded to the youth mental health crisis by creating an online learning management…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Mental Health Programs, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Student Welfare
Joni W. Splett; Nicholas A. Gage; Kelly L. Perales; Colleen Halliday; Mark D. Weist – Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, 2024
School climate encompasses student and school staff's experience of life at school, including the norms, goals, values, interpersonal relationships, safety, teaching and learning practices, social and physical environments, and organizational structures. Its positive influence on student academic performance, school completion, disruptive…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Positive Behavior Supports, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Learner Engagement