Teachers Leading the Front Lines - North Carolina (Tealeaf-NC)

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL · Sep 4, 2024

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ClinConnect Summary

Addressing children's mental health is a critically important health challenge. Twenty percent of all children suffer from significant mental health concerns, most of whom will remain unrecognized, unsupported, and affected throughout their lives. Such wide differences between mental health needs and care access are often called the "care gap". More recently, a youth mental health crisis emerged alongside the COVID-19 pandemic. The adverse impact of the pandemic has led to youth mental health prevalence increasing up to 40% in some global regions, which is double the pre-pandemic rate, whil...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• Schools:
• • Have been trained in either Tealeaf or RE-SEED in June 2024 after being randomized programmatically
• • Be a school in the State of North Carolina
• • Have an eligible principal
• Principals:
• • \>18 years old
• • Employed at an enrolled school
• • Not suspected or convicted of child-related misconduct or maltreatment
• Teachers:
• • \>18 years old
• • Employed at an enrolled school
• • Primary teaching responsibility for a single academic class (for a minimum of 1 hour per day and a minimum of 4 days per week) in any grade level Kindergarten to Grade 8
• • Not suspected or convicted of child-related misconduct or maltreatment
• Counselors:
• • \>18 years old
• • Employed at an enrolled school
• • Hold a school counselor position at an enrolled school for at least 10 hours per week
• • Not suspected or convicted of child-related misconduct or maltreatment
• Students:
• • Enrolled in Kindergarten-Grade 8
• • Student of an enrolled teacher
• • Has a parent or guardian who can provide consent
• • Positive/Clinical-level score on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
• Guardians:
• • \>18 years old
• • Guardian of enrolled student
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Exclusion criteria will be set as each participant does not meet the inclusion criteria as set for their group.