Resources to Care for the Whole Child After the Holidays

The holidays can be a joyful time full of loved ones, exciting gifts and relaxation, but it can also be a hard time for those struggling with mental health issues, living in unsafe environments or facing food insecurity. Those already experiencing mental health issues report the holiday season worsens their symptoms.

Students are not immune to this experience – over 50% of secondary students report feeling depressed, stressed and anxious, and over 35% say their school performance is negatively affected by distractions and responsibilities at home. The holiday season will likely exacerbate the challenges these students are already facing.

A recent study highlighted these trends, revealing decreases in student scores for academic self-confidence, engagement and behavior around the holiday season. These trends can be attributed to a number of factors, including an unstable home environment, holiday blues, academic stress and feeling isolated or excluded. The mental and emotional toll of these experiences does not disappear once the holidays are over, and students may need increased support or intervention to successfully reenter the classroom.

Maslow before Bloom teaches that for children to succeed academically, they must have a learning environment that meets their basic safety and wellness needs. As children return from a potentially turbulent winter break, it’s crucial that teachers and school staff have plans in place to keep them on the pathway to success.

Threat Detection & Prevention Solutions

Detect: Detect is the most comprehensive, all-encompassing digital safety solution available. This software helps identify and address a student’s intent to harm themselves or others by scanning digital content in real time and notifying school administrators of harm language found in school-owned email and public social media. It also utilizes a web indexing database of 3 billion URLs to protect students from potentially harmful content.

Behavioral Threat & Suicide Case Management: This single solution will provide your school’s mental health professionals and BTA team members with evidence-based case management software that allows for continuum of care documentation and analytics reporting to proactively improve outcomes for students of concern.

Behavioral Threat Assessment Training: Aligned with the Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines (CSTAG) or National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) threat assessment model, this is a two-part behavioral threat assessment training program that combines online and in-person (available live or virtual) learning to build the confidence needed to identify and properly intervene when a child is showing signs of a mental health crisis.

P3 Anonymous Tip Reporting: P3 serves as a forum for collaboration and accountability between school administrators, peace officers and mental health professionals to ensure every student’s needs are met. Our technology also powers well-known national and state-level tip lines such as Sandy Hook Promise’s Say Something program and Safe2Tell Colorado. As the leading anonymous reporting tool, our software empowers students, teachers and individuals to proactively share information about safety, bullying, self-harm and violence.