Websites

• DCPS Mental Health Website

• The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (Milken Institute of Public Health)

  • DC School Behavioral Health Community of Practice

• Department of Behavioral Health: School Behavioral Health Program

• Office of the State Superintendent of Education: Supporting Mental Health in Schools

Reports and Academic Papers

• Primer: Billing for Behavioral Health Services for DC Students by the DC Consortium for Mental Wellness and Behavioral Health in Schools (DC COMBS) and the Strengthening Families Coalition (2026)

• School Behavioral Health Program Implementation and Funding Analysis Report by the Department of Behavioral Health (2025)

• A Path Forward: Transforming the Public Behavioral Health System for Children, Youth, and their Families in the District of Columbia by Children’s Law Center, Children’s National Hospital, the District of Columbia Behavioral Health Association, Early Childhood Innovation Network, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Parent Watch, and Total Family Care Coalition (2021)

• COVID-19 & Behavioral Health in the District of Columbia: Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security for the Office of the D.C. Auditor (2023)

• Recommendations to Decolonize and Decarcerate School Mental Health by The Akoma Project, DC Child Justice Coalition (2023)

• State of D.C. Schools, 2021-22: In-Person Learning, Measuring Outcomes, and Work on Recovery by DC Policy Center (2023)

• Leveraging the Expertise of the Community: A Case for Expansion of a Peer Workforce in Child, Adolescent, and Family Mental Health Robertson et al (2023)

• Advancing Antiracism in Community-Based Research Practices in Early Childhood and Family Mental Health by Ambrose Lane, Jr. et al (2022)

• Promoting Positive Protective Factors and Trauma-Informed Support: Healthy Together Medical-Legal Partnership to Improve Health in DC by Enhancing Community Resilience by CLC, DC Health, CNH (2022)

• Growing Up Stronger: The Impact of Neighborhood Conditions on Child Opportunity by Children's National Hospital & HSC Health Care System (2022)

• DC Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) 2022 by DC Health Matters Collaborative (2022)

• Strengthening the DC School Behavioral Health System and Enhancing Equity by The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, SLC (2022)

• Using Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation to Facilitate the Social–Emotional Competence and School Readiness of Preschool Children in Marginalized Communities by Mathis et al (2022)

• Community-Based Intervention Services (CBI) and Evidence-Based Practices by Department of Behavioral Health (2022)

• Navigating Behavioral Health in DC Schools by DC CoP, Office of the Student Advocate (2021)

• COVID-19 and Children’s Behavioral Health in the District of Columbia: The Pandemic’s Impact on Child Behavioral Health Outcomes and the Behavioral Health Care System by Community Mental Health CORE (Collaboration, Outreach, Research, Equity) Child Health Advocacy Institute, Children’s National Hospital (2021)

• Behavioral Health Transformation in the District of Columbia: Perspectives and Recommendations from Children’s National Hospital and the Early Childhood Innovation Network by Children’s National Hospital, ECIN (2021)

• Current Landscape of Behavioral Health Services for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Insured by Medicaid in Washington, D.C. by Community Mental Health CORE, Child Health Advocacy Institute, Children’s National Hospital (2021)

• Don’t Cut DC’s Lifeline to Mental Health: Community-Based Services Matter in DC by DC Health Matters Collaborative (2020)

• DC Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) 2019 by DC Health Matters Collaborative (2019)

Other Resources

• Responding to a School Crisis, Office of the State Superintendent of Education

• Mental Health Guidelines, Office of the State Superintendent of Education (March 2022)

• DBH Evidence Based Practice Fact Sheet by Department of Behavioral Health (July 2025)

• DBH Healthy Futures Program Flier by DC Department of Behavioral Health (January 2023)