Abstract
[...]to be able to provide a true continuum of mental health care, it is essential that (a) schools be given the resources they need to promote mental health and address mental illness and (b) the school- and community-based mental health services sectors do a much better job of providing integrated and coordinated care. Doing so will serve to reduce the number of new cases of mental illness. [...]these efforts have been well documented to improve academic achievement (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1999).