SBDI Overview
- SBDI Information Sheet (Updated January 2025)
- SBDI Overview Videos
Related Resources
SBDI Toolkit and Resources
- School Based Diversion Initiative Toolkit (Sept 2013)
- MOAs between Schools and Mobile Crisis Intervention Services
- CHDI's Comprehensive School Mental Health web pages: School Health Assessment and Performance Evaluation (SHAPE) System and Trauma Care in Schools: CBITS and Bounce Back
- Trauma ScreenTIME Schools Course: Free online course developed by CHDI to train school staff how to screen children for trauma, what to do with screening results, and how to develop a screening process.
School Responder Model (SRM) Resources
- School Responder Model Virtual Toolbox (National Center for Youth Opportunity and Justice, 2022)
- Model: Tip Sheet Series for Educators (CHDI & NCYOJ, June 2021)
- Strengthening School-Family-Community Partnerships Through the School Responder Model, research-to-practice brief (CHDI & NCYOJ, November 2021)
- Children’s Behavioral Health and Implementation of the School Responder Model provides guidance on implementing a School Responder Model as part of a Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (CHDI & NCYOJ, December 2020)
Related Publications
- Issue Brief 82: Supporting Student Wellness and Success: Use of ESSER Funds for Building a Comprehensive School Mental Health System (November 2021)
Media Coverage of SBDI
"Connecticut schools respond to behavioral issues with a restorative approach." (VIDEO). Fox 61 CT, 1/9/25
"Why some Connecticut schools are turning away from discipline with behavioral issues." CT Insider, 12/26/24
"Strained juvenile justice systems get relief from mobile behavioral health programs." Route Fifty, 9/11/23