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Abstract: 

School-based mental health service delivery systems are critical to the success and healthy development of students. Oftentimes, these systems need to be continuously refined in order to meet the needs of the changing student population being served. This paper highlights one school district’s efforts to enhance and refine its school-based mental health service delivery system to address both academic and non-academic barriers to student success, create key partnerships with the local county systems, facilitate the blending and braiding of funding to support the hiring of new mental health workers within the district, utilize data to make strategic decisions about enhancing the current system, and build the capacity of teachers and staff around the service delivery process.

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Affiliations:  1: College of Social Work, Ohio State University; 2: Fostoria Community Schools; 3: College of Social Work, Ohio State University.