Senior BIMAS2 author, Dr. James McDougal, was recently selected to serve as a consultant on a federally funded research project studying intervention effects of early mental health supports provided to elementary students in the schools. The leading national expert on school mental health programming, Dr. Mark Weist, (University of South Carolina) will serve as the PI for the project assisted by Co-PI, Dr. Brandon Schultz, (East Carolina University) and McDougal is honored to have been included. The project, Early Supports for Student Success (ESSS), will be implemented and studied over the next 3 years in 16 elementary schools across North and South Carolina. McDougal’s contribution will be focused on the use of the BIMAS2 (among other measures) for student screening, informing program design, and measuring intervention effects and associated student outcomes.
The project is funded by the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES)
