Behavioral Health Suspension Expulsion Coalition

• Team towards a common goal set forth by Riley Children’s Health and the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE)
  • To ensure Indiana youth receive the mental and behavioral health support they need to thrive and to make our state a national model in response to the youth behavioral health crisis
• Share dialogue around general and special education students that are suspended or expelled, have chronic absenteeism, and/or other factors grossly limiting their instructional time
• Development of decision-making pathways unique to or individualized by district needs with contribution to collective resource sharing around common precipitating factors surrounding mental and behavioral health
• Facilitation of a coalition as an evidence-based, community-informed strategy to support the initial installation and sustainability of efforts for founding coalition members and further expansion inclusive of interested districts

As a Coalition, we have mutually developed core values that are at the foundation of our collective work. Coalition partners come to the table ready to engage in:

• Teamwork/team-oriented
• Thinking outside the box/thinking of alternatives
• Student-centered/student-first mentality

Within the Coalition, partners mutually agreed to foster the following:

• Respectfulness
• Open-minded
• Foster learning environment
• Attentiveness
• Engagement
• Willing to give suggestions and make contributions
• Willingness to collaborate and provide feedback
• Judgment-free zone
• Be positive