- American Psychological Association, which has published special guidance on youth mental health during Covid-19.
- Black School Psychologists and the Association of Black Psychologists, which have challenged the disproportionate number of Blacks students in special education, the treatment they may or may not get while there and their rates of expulsions/suspensions.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has published reports, including recent ones, on child and adolescent mental health.
- Children & Schools journal, which, among other research, has explored trauma-informed mental health care and care outcomes for, among others, at-risk urban and rural youth, suicide prevention, etc.
- National Association of School Psychologists, which, among other analysis, has explored the costs of providing mental health services to students and the link between mental health and learning.
- National Center for School Mental Health at The University of Maryland School of Medicine.
- National PTA’s webinar Caring for Every Child’s Mental Health: The Signs, Strategies, and Services Families and Schools Need, done in collaboration with the National Association of School Psychologists.
- National School Boards Association, which has issued guidelines on what public schools are legally bound to provide for mentally ill students. (It recently weighed in on risks of depression, a driver of suicide and suicidal ideation, among all students, not just those in special education.)
- Pew Research Center, which has gauged the adverse impact of distance learning, amid Covid-19, on students with mental and other disabilities. (Here’s a November 2020 NPR piece on that topic.)
