Healing through Equity, Resources, and Orchestration (H.E.R.O) represents an innovative approach to collectively align behavioral supports and mental health services for ALL students. This presentation will detail how to create an interconnected, multi-tiered system of behavioral and social emotional services that supports and cultivates mental health and wellness for ALL students, families and learning communities. Attendees will also be shown a roadmap of how to align and forge partnerships that include the county office of education, behavioral health, district, school, and community partners. In addition, they will learn: 1) How to build increased partnerships between mental health agencies and school-sites through collaboration geared to increase knowledge of trauma, adverse childhood experiences, providing trauma informed education, and expansion of the multi-tiered system service array for students and staff. 2) How to support school-based and community based strategies to improve access to care through increasing the number of school based mental health clinicians available on school sites, thereby supporting students with interventions and supports that directly treat or address the mental health needs of ALL students.
