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The addition of mental health screening, along with other on-campus heath screenings, would provide students with frequent mental health checkups ensuring that students are mentally healthy, while also de-stigmatizing mental illnesses as a whole.

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"In studies of school-based mental health screenings, researchers found that mental health screening played an important role in reducing barriers to learning, provided youth with access to services for mental health care, and resulted in positive educational and behavioral outcomes."

"Engaging in efforts to provide mental health screenings in schools is an extremely important initial step in the fight against mental illness, and will result in the ability to improve the mental health care of children and families everywhere."

"They would not only ensure kids don’t fall behind because of a delay in treatment, but also would help erase the stigma of mental illness that stops people in need from reaching out."

"For adolescents already experiencing depression, early identification and appropriate intervention can result in relief from depressive symptoms, a reduced number of recurrences, and improvement in academic performance "

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https://www.healthline.com/health-news/should-schools-screen-kids-for-mental-health-problems-082915

http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/policyissues/mhscreeningissues.pdf

https://www.schoolhealth.com/media/pdf/handout_mental_health_screening_JD.pdf

https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2014/01/24/schools-experiment-with-universal-mental-health-screenings/

http://csmh.umaryland.edu/media/SOM/Microsites/CSMH/docs/Reports/School-Mental-Health-Screening-Playbook.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4594945/

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"According to the National Institute of Mental Health, one in five children meet criteria for a mental health diagnosis during their lifetime."

"Unfortunately, research tells us that less than one-third of children who may be in need of mental health services actually receive treatment."

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- funding:

- parent permission: "Universal screenings may make perfect sense to mental health professionals, but many people have never heard of them. That can make securing parent permission a thorny problem for school districts. There also may be concerns about the validity of screening tools, that kids will be unfairly stigmatized, or that schools have no business evaluating mental health in the first place."

solution: "Conduct parent education sessions on risk factors, signs, symptoms, outcomes, and methods of referral for students exhibiting depressed behavior. Discuss the benefits of mental health screening, how it is to be conducted, and how the results are to be used. Dispel any misunderstandings about mental health screening. "

- false diagnosis:
" Any normal child at one point or another, if observed by a mental health professional, may demonstrate a symptom related to a particular diagnosis.

For this reason, it is important that there be a second confirmed opinion by a senior observer before further clinical evaluation is conducted and/or brought to the parents’ attention."