Your Health System Wants to Support Youth Mental Health. Schools Are How You Do It.
There is no institution more embedded in a community than its schools.
Their halls are full of the next generation's leaders. Their parking lots, fields, and bleachers are filled with families and fans. Schools are ecosystems of learning, celebration, sports, arts, and values, whose veins stretch into every corner of the community they serve.
For a health system trying to reach and support that community, there is no better front door.
And yet, despite the resources health systems pour into community wellness every year, there's never been an easy way to bring real mental health support into schools at scale.
Youth Mental Health, A Problem No One Can Solve Alone
Youth mental health keeps surfacing as the top concern in Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA) nationwide, and the data backs it up. Nearly 40% of high schoolers report persistent sadness or hopelessness. One in five have seriously considered suicide. Meanwhile, 52% of schools say they can't adequately support students' mental health due to budget, staffing, and access constraints. (Sources: Learning Policy Institute, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Institute of Education Sciences)
Schools are asking for more resources, and healthcare systems want to help, but trying to reach every district and zip code requires building a curriculum team, an outreach function, and a distribution operation from scratch. That's a lot to ask of a marketing or community health department already stretched thin, not to mention extremely expensive.
We have seen that same disconnect play out across every industry trying to impact schools for the better, not just healthcare. So we built the infrastructure to close it.
The Content: Kids Mental Health Foundation
The Kids Mental Health Foundation has already created what most health systems would spend a year and a budget line developing: an evidence-informed mental wellness curriculum for grades 1–5, tested and already proven to be well loved by teachers and students.
Each monthly Mental Wellness Classroom Kit includes:
An in-class mental wellness activity
A teacher booklet with background, instructions, and conversation starters
A caregiver letter in English and Spanish
Student or teacher giveaways
It covers the most important issues impacting student mental health: bullying, big emotions, test anxiety, kindness, all before unhealthy patterns solidify in high school, packaged in an easy-to-use classroom kit that fits perfectly into a day's curriculum.
The Reach: Campus Multimedia
Great content still needs to find its way through fragmented districts, individual schools, and classrooms. That's the part of community initiatives that eats up health organizations' time, staff, and budget.
Campus Multimedia has relationships with more than 99,000 schools nationwide, and we handle complete fulfillment of the Kids Mental Health Foundation curriculum: school outreach, distribution, and ongoing relationship management. A healthcare system doesn't need to hire for any of it.
When you license these resources from the Kids Mental Health Foundation, the kits can be customized to your brand: your organization's name, your community impact, backed by research and a delivery infrastructure that's proven, trusted, and already working.
Why We Built This
We partner with the Kids Mental Health Foundation because schools deserve more support. When students have the tools to manage their mental health, those skills follow them home, into their families, and out into the community they'll grow up to lead. That ripple effect, healthier kids building healthier communities, is everyone's ultimate goal.
Ready to move? Contact Jacquelyn Moore, Director of Partnerships at Campus Multimedia, to bring a white-labeled Kids Mental Health Foundation initiative to your community.