Advance interconnected practice, policy, and research to scale effective school behavioral health (SBH) programming in South Carolina (SC).
The SC School Behavioral Health (SBH) Collaborative is a statewide partnership advancing interconnected practice, policy, and research to scale effective school behavioral health programming across South Carolina. The Collaborative includes leadership from MUSC clinical and telehealth leaders, school behavioral health leaders at USC, the Collaborative SC Departments of Health and Human Services, Mental Health, and Education.
Create a collaborative partnership across SC to enhance mental health services, by advancing access to mental health interventions through technology and provide evidence-based and equitable mental health services to all students through effective SBH programming.
Build a partnership of key state leaders/organizations to scale-up effective SBH across SC and increase equitable access to mental health services for all school children. Through the partnership, expand innovative approaches to better address student/family mental health needs emphasizing strategies such as telemental health integration into schools’ well done and established MTSS frameworks. Convene practice & policy leaders across relevant disciplines (youth and families) to guide the growth of effective SBH in the state, inclusive of technology & other innovations. Develop user friendly, research-based documents on best practices in SBH, making them available to broad and diverse audiences in South Carolina.
Many thanks to all who have attended the SC School Behavioral Health Summits. These one-day summits have involved policy leaders, researchers, practitioners, educators, family members, and other advocates in identifying the strengths, challenges, and areas of innovation for the development of a more coherent and effective statewide approach to school behavioral health (SBH).
Based on suggestions from the Summit workgroups, this year’s areas of focus for the SC School Behavioral Health Collaborative will be:
Email us at boeingcenter@musc.edu for more information or if you would like to be added to our mailing list to receive quarterly newsletters and information on upcoming summits!
Based on your guidance and feedback on creating effective school behavioral health systems, we are connecting intentionally with professional groups to foster cross-agency collaboration.
We will host a planning discussion with professional agency leaders at the 2026 Southeastern School Behavioral Health Conference, and we hope to see you there!
Please follow the links below to view resources created collaboratively during the Fall 2025 Summit:
Resources for schools: Facilitating Civil and Productive Classroom Conversations: Guidance and Lesson Plans
Resources for all: American Academy of Pediatrics: Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Echo Recordings
Book recommendations:
For more information, contact the SC School Behavioral Health Collaborative at advsbh@mailbox.sc.edu.
