Pre-Con Session

Michael Kane, Ph.D.

Manager, Department of Behavioral and Mental Health
School District of Palm Beach County

Mental Health Support for Student Well-Being: School Counselors Lead

Thursday, November 7, 2024 | 1:00pm-4:00pm

This three-hour, in-depth training focuses on responsive mental health services. Mental health and school success are closely linked with untreated mental health challenges and experiences creating barriers to success. School-based, school counselor-led direct service interventions and mental health teams can remove barriers to mental health support. Based on researched best practices and lessons learned, this session will provide strategies for the implementation of these teams. Leave this training with a deeper understanding of supports for your students.

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

Identify the benefits of school-based mental health care.
Be able to describe the alignment of comprehensive school mental health in a multi-tiered system of supports and in alignment with the ASCA National Model.
Learn strategies to create a model school team of professionals supporting student behavioral and mental health and referral.
Be able to identify school counselor expertise that supports effective school mental health intervention and teaming efforts.

FLDOE Rule, 6A-5.079, Florida School Counseling Standards addressed: #1 thru #6

About the Presenter

Michael Kane, Ph.D. is a certified school counselor and Manager in the Department of Behavioral and Mental Health in the School District of Palm Beach County. Dr. Kane is an educator with over 29 years’ experience as school counselor, school district administrator, and adjunct professor. More recently, his work has focused on creating new and aligning existing systems to expand student access to school-based mental health care. He is the founder of the Annual Student Mental Health and Wellness Conference and is active in local, state, and national organizations; including the Florida School Counselor Association, American School Counselor Association, and Becoming a Trauma Informed Community/Birth to 22 Initiative.

FSCA is Home for Florida School Counselors.
Since 1964, FSCA is a chartered state division of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA)