Newtown Teachers Are Heading Back To School With Better Mental Health Training [ThinkProgress.org]

Samantha Sangenito 8/28/1412:00 PM

This year, as kids head back to class in the Newtown Public School District, their teachers will be better equipped to respond to their mental health needs. In the aftermath of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which put mental health and gun control issues back in the national spotlight, about 600 teachers and staff members have undergone training in “Youth Mental Health First Aid.”
The training was sponsored by the Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation, an organization that was formed to respond to the 2012 shooting and provide ongoing support to the affected families in the Connecticut community.

[For more of this story, written by Tara Culp-Ressler, go to http://thinkprogress.org/healt...chers-mental-health/]

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