Baltimore, MD — The Montgomery County Intermediate Unit #23 (MCIU) in Norristown, Pa., has been awarded a 4-year federal grant to work on reducing youth suicide in three designated regions by having their K-12 school districts, as a core grant component, use comprehensive software called bhworks. It contains research-based mental health assessment and screening tools,…
CARSON CITY, Nev. – A pilot program launched by the Nevada Department of Education (NDE) provides schools and parents with new tools to support student mental health. Nevada Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education) includes the use of a technology-based system that allows schools taking part in the pilot to confidentially screen students for…
Through a statewide grant agreement called 31n, the Michigan Department of Education (MDE)selected bhworks in spring 2021 to allow K-12 schools statewide to gain consent, confidentially screen students, assess, refer, monitor behavioral and mental health treatment, collect real-time data, and streamline communication with families and school staff. From October 2021 – September 2022, a rapid…
Arizona Project Aware Districts Will Use bhworks Software Platform To Improve K-12 Student Behavioral And Mental Health Outcomes Phoenix, AZ & Baltimore, MD — Arizona Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education) districts now have the opportunity to use bhworks, the student mental health software system from mdlogix, that allows school districts to work…
Baltimore, MD — Allen Tien, MD, MHS, founder, president, and chief science officer of mdlogix, has been awarded a one-year, $499,000 federal grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how machine learning (ML) can improve capabilities of underserved populations, specifically Native and African American communities, to prevent suicides. The Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning…
Six Years of Using the Behavioral Health Screen in bhworks for NJ School District Jennifer DiStefano, MA, SAC, has been helping students in the Cherry Hill School District for 21 years now. Cherry Hill is a township within Camden County, N.J., and just 10 miles east of Philadelphia, Pa. The district has almost 11,000 students…
It was July 2020, four months into the COVID pandemic, when the Bradford County Human Services Agency in Towanda joined Pennsylvania’s Garrett Lee Smith (GLS) grant project. The funding has been used in 41 counties through the Student Assistance Program (SAP) to establish and implement policies and procedures that support statewide youth suicide prevention efforts…
Organized by mdlogix, home of the bhworks student mental health software system The Multi State Collaborative was established in spring 2022 to enable those working to prevent, treat and solve youth behavioral and mental health issues to collectively share best practices across states. Participants, including presenters, are from Pennsylvania, Michigan, California, Maryland, Delaware, Kansas, and more. …
California’s Solano County Office of Education (SCOE) began using bhworks software platform from mdlogix in 2019. SCOE is a partner to Solano County’s six school districts, providing services and oversight that help them serve approximately 64,000 students. As this previous article notes, SCOE began using the platform to manage the behavioral health issues of students…
Solano County Office of Education (SCOE) works hard to maximize behavioral health support to students in the county’s six independent school districts. Through a partnership with the county’s behavioral health department – which has been continuously expanded and strengthened over the past 11 years – SCOE has been able to support a variety of suicide…
