1. A Collaborative Approach to School Mental Health
Monica Wightman, DPI, Education Consultant
Scott Strong, RISE, Executive Director

2. Our Focus for Today Identify Key Partners
Creating the Infrastructure for Success
Essential Data Sources
Agenda Setting
Adaptive Leadership Principles

3. Inclusion Activity Who’s in the Room?
Describe the conversations in your community about children’s mental health?

4. Brainstorm: Who Should Be at the Table?
What is currently happening in your community?
Who holds this information?
Who is missing from the conversation?
Who cares about this work?

5. Developing the Collaboration
Individual, agency and community commitment
Shared goals for improving the lives of youth
Shared facilitation between community and school
3 person co-leadership with staggered terms
Work of the Community Collaborative
Workgroup structure: when and what is the function?

6. How to Begin the Work Educate ourselves on the issue
Data (How are we making sense of the data?)
Stakeholder Voice (youth, family, professionals)
Environmental Scan (Resource Mapping)
Now…what is important to us? Why are we here?
Problem Statement is created.
Do we have the right people at the table? (ongoing)

7. Key Data Sources Wisconsin Online Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Wisconsin County Health Rankings
Ann E. Casey Kids Count
Dane County Youth Risk Survey

8. Agenda Setting- A Place to Start

9. Agenda Setting- Digging Deeper
Suggested items:
Mission
Vision
Systems Change Target
Priority Statement
Strategies
Attendance
Welcome and Inclusion
Assign Roles
Check-in/Announcements
Grounding Activity – Revisit the why and purpose for members’ participation
Questions to Answer as We Move Forward
Workgroup Updates
To Do List
Future Meeting Schedule

10. Now, It Gets Interesting…
Then, legitimate, yet competing perspectives emerge. People see the same situation in different ways…..
Change Matrix, 2017

11. Adaptive Leadership

12. Adaptive Leadership Activity

13. Putting the Pieces Together
What is the problem you are trying to solve?
How will you get to root causes?
What solutions are possible?

14. Final Thoughts and Questions