Project BASIC

Evidence Step: Outputs

Department: Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

Program Description

Project BASIC (Better Attitudes and Skills in Children) is a school-based mental health early intervention and prevention program. The program targets students from kindergarten to third grade, providing early identification and intervention, teacher consultation and classroom programming to promote positive attitudes and mental health wellness concepts. Families with students at high risk of emotional disturbances are linked to community services and treatment services.

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Details

Program Demographic: Children, Adults

Delivery Setting: School

Current Participants: 2,539

Outputs

Number of classroom presentations

2025: 11,394

2024: 10,633

2022: 6,534

Number of individual unduplicated students served

2025: 2,539

2024: 2,389

2022: 1,058

Number of teachers receiving classroom coaching

2025: 2,143

2024: 2,867

2022: 788

Number students at risk of a serious emotional disturbance

2025: 474

2024: 378

2022: 188

Logic Model

If we provide school-based early intervention, prevention, and evidenced-based teacher consultation and classroom programming for elementary aged students, then we will increase students’ social emotional competencies, and be able to identify, refer, and link families with students at high risk of serious emotional disturbances to community mental health service providers, which will improve the well-being of the student, overall classroom culture, and establish effective coping skills throughout the student’s life.