NASHVILLE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE RESOURCE GUIDE

Social Emotional Learning and Mental/Behavioral Health

Invitation to ParticipateTM from the Behavioral Health and Healthy Eating/Active Living Alignment Teams

TACTIC OUTCOMES TACTIC OUTCOMES

Alignment Team tactics focus on systemic change. As such, this Invitation to ParticipateTM will support the following outcomes:

SHORT TERM

  • 10,000 unique visits to resource guide in first 12 months (measured by web analytics)
  • Marketing materials or emails go out to at least 100 community organizations, clinics, social service agencies in Nashville (measured by materials/emails sent)

MID TERM

  • Unique visits go up by at least 20% during second year (measured by web analytics)
  • At least 75% of users report having either learned something new from guide or found what they were looking for (measured by team-conducted survey data)

LONG TERM

  • Increased graduation rate (measured by MNPS)
  • Improved children's health (measured by Coordinated School Health BMI data)

In support of Objective 5.3 of MPHD's Community Health Improvement Plan as well as MNPS' Education 2018 goals for student growth, Alignment Nashville's HEAL (Healthy Eating/Active Living) and Behavioral Health Teams have come together to produce a whole health-focused, entirely online resource guide for children and families in Nashville: The Nashville Wellness Collaborative Resource Guide, nashvillewellness.org.

This guide will gather new resources around mental/emotional and physical wellbeing areas, to support whole health. The Behavioral Health Alignment Team will handle mental and emotional health resources, while the HEAL Alignment Team will gather resources around physical health [see HEAL's Invitation to Participate here]. The correlation of good nutrition and physical activity with improved mental wellbeing will also be highlighted in this guide.

Additionally, the Behavioral Health Team seeks to update information in the existing Social Emotional Learning Resource Guide that the team produced and printed in 2011-12, for inclusion in the new Nashville Wellness guide. Any agencies who had entries in the original Social Emotional Learning Resource Guide are welcomed and encouraged to update their information from that guide via this ITP.

The Nashville Wellness Collaborative Resource Guide will be comprised of the following sections and agencies will be asked to indicate section in which their entry belongs (bold indicates Behavioral Health areas):

  • Health Education & Services
  • Nutrition
  • Physical Education & Activity
  • Healthy School Environment
  • Student, Family & Community Involvement
  • Adult Wellness
  • Psychological Social Services

As the guide will be hosted entirely online, agency entries will be easy to update when offerings, personnel, contact info or other items have changed.

Do you work in mental and emotional health or SEL? Submit your organization's listing now!