Health: Physical and Mental Health and Children, Youth, and Families Experiencing Homelessness
Resources
California School-Based Health Alliance (CSBHA) resources webpage
This CSBHA webpage links to a variety of resources related to the provision of school-based health services, including information on consent and confidentiality, electronic health records, telehealth, youth engagement, and more.
The Crisis Text Line provides free crisis support 24/7 via text, web-based chat, or WhatsApp. The Crisis Text Line website also links to a variety of resources specific to supporting student mental health, including back-to-school mental health resources, summer mental health activities for kids (student and parent resources), and teacher tools for student mental health.
National Center for Youth Law (NCYL): TeenHealthLaw.org website
The TeenHealthLaw website, a NCYL project, provides information intended to help health care and other service providers understand the many laws that may impact their work with adolescents. Website resources include Minor Consent and Confidentiality: A Compendium of State and Federal Laws(also available as a PDF file) and resources and information specific to California, including information on state minor consent laws and using the California Caregiver Consent Affidavit.
This NHLC report provides a survey of state laws related to access to mental health treatment for youth experiencing homelessness.
This SHC webpage shares information on the prevalence of mental health issues among children and youth experiencing homelessness and recommended practices for ensuring that these children and youth receive the mental health services they need.
SchoolHouse Connection: Youth Risk Behavior Survey: Research, Practice, and Advocacy Tools webpage
This SHC webpage compiles information related to the administration of the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). The webpage links to YRBS research, practice, and advocacy tools in one place to help practitioners understand YRBS findings related specifically to students experiencing homelessness and how to use these findings in their own work.