Classroom WISE Resources
Module 2: Teaching Mental Health Literacy and Reducing Stigma
Glossary
This resource includes definitions for key terms used throughout the Classroom WISE course.
Provide Accurate Information
This resource is an article that discusses incorporating mental health literacy into teacher's curricula and provides examples of successful schools.
Developed by Learning for Justice
The Mental Health and High School Curriculum Guide
This resource is a series of online modules that are designed to increase understanding of mental health and disorders, decrease stigma, and enhance help-seeking behaviors of teachers and students.
Developed by teenmentalhealth.org
School-Based Activities Toolkit
This resource is a toolkit that helps schools develop mental health committees made up of teachers, school staff, and students that provide anti-stigma activities.
Developed by Headstrong
Stress Management and Healthy Coping Activities
This resource explains the benefits of teaching mental wellness activities and lists mental wellness activities.
This resource is a training program for youth that teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations.
Developed by Youth Mental Health First Aid
Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Racial and Ethnic Minority Youth: a Guide for Practitioners
This resource is a guide for mental health practitioners that describes factors influencing ethnic and racial minority youth mental health, their use of mental health services and provide concrete strategies for addressing the mental health needs of these youths.
Developed by the American Psychological Association
Strengthening Resilience: Promoting Positive School Mental Health Among Indigenous Youth
This resource is a document that provides tools for K-12 educators, administrators, and mental health treatment providers to better address the learning and behavioral health needs of Indigenous youth in a holistic manner.
Mental Health Research: Latino Community and School Issues
This resource is an article that reviews Latinx mental health and school and community stressors.
Developed by Salud America!
Mental Health Research: Issues Facing Latino Kids
This resource is an article that provides current research on a variety of mental health issues that Latinx adolescents face.
Developed by Salud America!
Talk Openly
Creating Mental Health Bulletin Boards
This resource details ideas for topics to include on mental health bulletin boards that make mental health visible and reduce stigma.
Everyday Mental Health Classroom Resource
This resource contains evidence-informed mental health practices for elementary classrooms.
Developed by SMH Ontario
Be Careful and Intentional with Language
This resource is a factsheet that advocates for the importance of correct language when talking about mental health.
Developed by teenmentalhealth.org
Replacing Stigmatizing Language
This resource provides strategies to replace stigmatizing language.
A Systematic Review of a Common Idiom of Distress
This resource is a journal article that reviews idioms of distress. Idioms of distress communicate suffering via reference to shared ethnopsychologies, and a better understanding of idioms of distress can contribute to effective clinical and public health communication.
Developed by Kaiser, B. N., Haroz, E. E., Kohrt, B. A., Bolton, P. A., Bass, J. K., & Hinton, D. E. (2015)
This resource highlights language that is stigmatizing and offers alternatives for more supportive language to utilize instead.
Developed by the National Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders
Incorporate Lived Experience
This resource is a handout that can be used with students or teachers to think about their various identities.
Developed by Facing History and Ourselves
Raise Awareness
This resource is an organization that has multimedia resources featuring people with mental illness that encourage dialogue about mental health and raise awareness, understanding, and empathy.
Developed by Bring Change 2 Mind
Children’s Mental Health Matters!
This resource is a website for a children's mental health awareness campaign.
Developed by Children’s Mental Health Matters!
This resource is an organization that provides information and strategies to break the stigma around mental health.
Developed by Make It OK
Mental Health Week: “Be Kind to Your Mind”
This resource describes Mental Health Awareness Month and provides suggestions on how to implement a Mental Health Week in your classroom.
9 Truths About Eating Disorders
This resource is an infographic that outlines 9 truths about eating disorders that are commonly misconstrued.
Developed by the National Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders