Mental Health Support for Students With Disabilities
Help me give my students resources to support mental health, learning disabilities sensory needs such as flexible seating support to succeed in high school and learn life skills, coping strategies and awareness for the importance of mental health.
$476 goal
This project expired on March 7, 2025.
This project expired on March 7, 2025.
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Project
As a school psychologist, I play a multi-faceted role that is crucial to the emotional, mental, behavioral, and academic functioning of students. Having a role that spans many different areas allows me to reach a wide population of students who demonstrate different cultural, linguistic, socioeconomic, and neurological learning differences. This is such an important contribution to school environments, however, requires many resources and continued education to keep up with current evidence-based practices and the evolving needs of our students.
Teens in our current society face a multitude of different stressors, traumas, and expectations that were not present when many of us educators were adolescents.
This has led to an increase in mental health concerns like anxiety, depression, and acts of self-harm, especially within our special education population. Therefore, it is important to use continued learning, evidence-based interventions, and a bio-psycho-social approach to address the current needs of our students. With the materials I am requesting, I can utilize current, evidence-based interventions such as coping skills for anxiety to help support the mental health of high school students. Further, it will provide tools to empower students with disabilities such as ADHD, Autism, or learning disabilities to advocate for themselves and learn about their personal learning styles as well as books.
Oftentimes, students at this age are expected to be independent and don't prioritize basic needs such as food, so having access to snacks is not only important but is a reinforcement for students who require more behavioral support. Older students also struggle with advocating for sensory needs like flexible seating so having access to an adjustable footstand while testing can make a difference in their overall performance on assessments. My goal is to use these resources to best support the evolving needs of our students to lead them to success.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$30.97
3rd party payment processing fee
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Total project cost
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Total project goal
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