Mental Health & Wellness
Connecting Students with Mental Health Support
Helping school staff and families connect students with mental health supports that promote wellness, strengthen school engagement, and reduce barriers to learning.
Mental health and wellness are important parts of student success. Student Services provides resources and guidance to help school staff and families identify appropriate mental health supports and connect students with services when additional support is needed.
Resources on this page include tools for connecting students to mental health services, coordinating with outside providers, supporting students returning to school following mental health-related absences, and responding to the impacts of community violence.
Connect to Services
Find mental health resources and tools for connecting students and families with additional support.
Coordinate Support
Access Release of Information forms and resources that support coordination between schools, families, and outside providers.
Support Student Wellness
Find resources for student transitions, mental health-related absences, community violence, grief, and other needs affecting student wellness.
Connecting Students to Services
Mental Health Resources & Coordination Tools
Use these resources to identify mental health services and support coordination between schools, families, and community providers.
Quick Reference
Mental Health Resources Flowchart
Use this quick-reference resource to explore available mental health services and support options for students and families.
The flowchart includes links to mental health resources, contact information, and hours of operation.
Coordinate Care
Release of Information Forms
Use the appropriate Release of Information form when permission is needed to coordinate information between PPS and an outside provider.
Translated forms: The English version appears first in each translated Release of Information document.
Supporting Student Wellness
BRYT: Bridging Resilient Youth in Transition
BRYT supports students returning to school following prolonged absences connected to their mental health, helping schools and families promote a successful transition back to learning.
Supporting the Transition Back to School
The BRYT model helps schools support students as they return following significant mental health-related absences. The program brings together academic support, student wellness, family partnership, and coordination with school and community-based providers.
Specific criteria for participation may vary by school. The goal is to provide students with individualized support that promotes healing, wellness, school engagement, and academic success during the transition back to school.
Learn About the Model
BRYT Program
Learn more about the BRYT model and its approach to supporting students returning to school following mental health-related interruptions.
Visit the BRYT Program
Supporting Student Wellness
Community Violence Support Resources
Community violence can affect students' sense of safety, well-being, and experiences of grief and loss. These resources can help school staff support students and communities impacted by violence.
PPS Resource
Community Violence Supportive Resources
Access guidance and supportive resources for responding to the impacts of community violence on students and school communities.
View Supportive Resources
Conversation Guidance
Talking with Students About Community Violence
Guidance from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network for talking with and supporting students following exposure to community violence.
View NCTSN Resource
Grief & Community
Beloved Community and Grief
A resource from KairosPDX and The Dougy Center focused on acknowledging grief and actively supporting Black youth and other youth with marginalized identities who are grieving.
View Grief Resource
Community Mental Health Resources
Looking for Community-Based Mental Health Support?
Explore community-based and school-based mental health resources, including partner agencies, culturally responsive supports, coordinated care resources, and information for families using private insurance.