Thriving Minds: Building Comprehensive School Mental Health Systems

For many young people, the isolation, uncertainty, and trauma of the past few years have bred anxiety and depression, with potentially long-lasting effects on their success in school and beyond. Schools must respond to this need by providing thoughtful and effective mental health supports.

Thriving Minds is here to help. Through this initiative—a partnership between the Rennie Center, the Massachusetts School Mental Health Consortium, and BRYT—we offer learning opportunities and guidance in building comprehensive mental health systems that allow schools to support all students, now and in the future.

Supporting Students to Navigate School Avoidance

Presented by b ryt
Wednesday, May 31st | 2:30-3:30pm

Surfacing that there are very legitimate and important reasons why young people aren't able to either show up or engage in school, this session hopes to help those that work closely with these students to continue to extend compassion. School avoidance allows a child or teen to escape distressing aspects of the school day, which provides immediate short-term relief. Collectivizing our thinking and discovering ways to navigate supporting these students are key and this session aims to do just that.

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Rethinking Education

April 13, 2023

Our education system is at a crossroads. After years of disruption from the pandemic, there’s an instinct by some to return to “normal." But we can’t go back. The old way wasn’t working. As a state, we have never fulfilled our promise to educate all students. And, for students facing systemic racism or economic hardship, or who are neurodiverse learners, putting back the old system often simply means rebuilding the same barriers that have denied them opportunities. It’s time we acknowledge the shortcomings of our education system and begin to build approaches to learning that match the ways our children and youth understand and navigate their daily lives. It’s time to truly rethink education. And we see this as the new focus of our Condition of Education project. Over the coming year and beyond we will be asking bigger questions about how we rethink when, where, and how students learn.