Initiatives

CSBMHP director Cricket Meehan (second from left) works with some students on a project.

School Mental Health Communities of Practice

Miami University's Center for School-Based Mental Health Programs (CSBMHP) would like to offer you the opportunity to become a member of a virtual/online Community of Practice (COP) to support the social, emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs of your K-12 students…

Ohio School Wellness Initiative

The Ohio School Wellness Initiative was designed to explore, implement, and sustain a full continuum of care including prevention, early intervention, and treatment practices for K-12 students within local districts who adopt student assistance programs, Tier II/III supports, and staff wellness frameworks…

Youth Aid Ohio: Mental Health Training, Resources, Referrals

Funded by a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Mental Health Awareness Training (MHAT) grant, the Center for School-Based Mental Health Programs (CSBMHP), the Ohio Mental Health Network for School Success (OMHNSS), a cadre of Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) instructors, referral agencies throughout Ohio, and the Discovery Center for Evaluation, Research, and Professional Learning are partnering in this proposed initiative…

Miami University SUD Highly Qualified Practitioner Training and Preparation Project

Funded by a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Substance Use Disorder (SUD) training grant The SUD Highly Qualified Practitioner Training and Preparation Project will ensure that graduates of Miami University will undertake cutting edge SUD training, and will be certified to use the training to provide high quality SUD services in Ohio and elsewhere…

Epidemiologist and Evaluation Team for Butler County's Strategic Prevention Framework-Partnership for Success (SPF-PFS) Prevention+ initiative

The Center for School-Based Mental Health Programs (CSBMHP) will serve as the epidemiology and evaluation team for Butler County’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) - Partnerships for Success (PFS) initiative…

An Evaluation of the Efficacy and Effectiveness of the Online FLIP IT Parent Training Model within Foster Families

The primary goal of our proposed empirical evaluation is to determine the efficacy and effectiveness of the online FLIP IT Parent Training to decrease negative social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes and increase positive social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes among children of foster parents…

Mental Health First Aid: Connecting MHFA Statewide to Benefit all Ohioans

The Center for School-Based Mental Health Programs is collaborating with Mental Health America of Northern Kentucky and Southwest Ohio, Inc. and their partners to support first aiders trained as part of the Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) and Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training initiative…

Evaluation of Butler County's Family Treatment Drug Court (FTDC)

Miami University is providing Butler County Juvenile Court with an in-depth evaluation of their Family Drug Court services in order to objectively demonstrate measurable value…

Butler County K-12 Prevention Initiative

The Center for School-Based Mental Health Programs (CSBMHP) is convening interested Butler County school districts and independent community schools for the purpose of guiding them through the process of creating an individualized comprehensive prevention plan…

Action Research Partner for Butler Countys Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program (COAP)/Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP) initiative

Miami is the "action research" partner for Butler County's COAP/COSSAP grant focused on developing and evaluating training and prevention strategies targeted towards children impacted by the opiate epidemic…

Evaluation of the Fairfield County Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program (COAP)

The Center for School-Based Mental Health Programs (CSBMHP) is providing evaluation services for the Fairfield County Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program (COAP)…