Research conducted by the University of Iowa's Scanlan Center for School Mental Health found that faculty and staff at Iowa community colleges feel a sense of responsibility to support their students’ mental health; however, many feel underprepared to do so.

2022-2023 Scanlan Center for School Mental Health Annual Report | August 1, 2022 – September 31, 2023 Last year at this time, I was reflecting (in exhaustion) how we had spent our first year building a center while simultaneously trying to deliver on our mission to serve the entire state of Iowa. I mentioned how […]

Increasing access to pediatric mental health services in Iowa—especially in the state’s medically underserved and rural communities—is the goal of a program led by child health experts in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and in collaboration with colleagues in the UI College of Education's Scanlan Center for School Mental Health and primary care and mental health providers around the state.

The University of Iowa College of Education's Scanlan Center for School Mental Health and three other universities have been awarded a four-year, $10.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to launch the Mental Health Evaluation, Training, Research, and Innovation Center for Schools (METRICS), a national center to scale up the school-based mental health workforce of PK-12 school psychologists, social workers, school counselors, and other practitioners.

A cohort of 100 Iowa paraeducators was recently selected for a new mental health training fellowship offered by the Scanlan Center for School Mental Health. The first-ever of its kind in Iowa, the fellowship will equip paraeducators with skills in mental health literacy, relationship-building, suicide screening, immediate crisis response, and restorative practices, all of which help […]

Chuck Xander, Iowa’s new embedded counselor focusing on Veterans and military-connected students, brings a great blend of empathy and expertise to the role because of his own military service and educational background.

Today, the Scanlan Center for School Mental Health, the state’s hub for school-based mental health research, training, professional development, and clinical services, announced the 2023 Iowa School Mental Health Awardees at the Iowa BEST (Behavioral, Equitable, Social-Emotional, Trauma-Informed Health in Schools) Summit in Des Moines, Iowa. The awards program recognizes individuals who have made significant […]

Counselor Education and Supervision doctoral student Tevin Middleton is working to increase the number of minority students who pursue higher education and the counselor profession by addressing mental health services in schools.