In The News

In The News

SMART Center's Fall 2026 Newsletter Now Available
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Project Highlights

Project Highlights

The BRISC Redesigned In Districts to Grow Evidence (BRIDGE) study aims to test how best to enhance implementation of BRISC, a brief, evidence-based SMH intervention, to ensure it is as user friendly, effective, and feasible as possible.
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Recent Publications

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!
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Welcome

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), School of Social Work (SSW), and the School of Medicine (SoM); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) at the University of Washington. Learn more about SMART Center’s mission and values