PARAMETERS YES NO Does this have an impact on their relationships, behavior and/or learning? 10. Risk Do you hold concerns for their safety or the safety of others? Activity 3. What to Do? Purpose: To identify the different levels of support according to the Multitiered System of Support (MTSS) framework Materials: Powerpoint, projector Time: 25 minutes Instruction: Discuss the 3 tiers of support and give examples of activities per tier. According to the School Mental Health Referral Pathways’ (SMHRP) toolkit, funded by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the multitiered system of support (MTSS) framework serves as the guiding conceptual model used among educators and mental health practitioners. Applied to mental health needs, MTSS supports are best thought of as a continuum of supports defined by (a) the precision and intensity of assessment involved in assigning students to intervention conditions; (b) the dosage of intervention provided to match the presenting mental health need; and (c) the number of students targeted by the intervention. Based on these defining characteristics, the MTSS framework is organized into three tiers: Training Module on the Right to Mental Health in the Academe 9. Impact Fig.1. Multitiered System of Support (MTSS) Framework Tier3 Tier2 Tier1 NumberofStudentReceivingServices 16