School Mental Health Assessment, Research, & Training Center

In The News

We are thrilled to announce that the University of Washington School Mental Health Assessment, Research, and Training Center (UW SMART Center) has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to support our project, “Testing the Efficacy of the Helping Educational Leaders Mobilize Evidence (HELM) Implementation Strategy.”

Project Highlights

The Preparing Teachers and Paraeducators for the Successful Inclusion of Autistic Children project is currently underway and now recruiting school districts. Learn more about the status of this research project and others here.

Recent Publications

SMART has confirmed via a meta-analysis that schools are where the highest rate of youth get their mental health services. Come check out this publication and others by SMART center faculty!

Mission

The overarching mission of the School Mental Health Assessment, Research, and Training (SMART) Center is to promote high-quality, culturally-responsive programs, practices, and policies to meet the full range of social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) needs of students in both general and special education contexts.

The Center represents a transdisciplinary collaboration between faculty in the College of Education (CoE) and the School of Medicine (SoM; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) at the University of Washington. (more)