Module 1	Background	Unit 1 Introduction	Unit 2 How to use this playbook
Module 2	Partnerships	Unit 1 What is the role of partnerships in information sharing?	Unit 2 What strategies can be used to identify and engage partners?	Unit 3 Talking points for engaging partners and identifying champions
Module 3	Proposed indicators	Unit 1 Indicator summary
Module 4	School attendance	Unit 1 Definition	Unit 2 Domains to assess school attendance	Unit 3 Data on school attendance	Unit 4 Examples of school attendance to monitor trends
Module 5	School disciplinary actions	Unit 1 Definition	Unit 2 Domains to assess school disciplinary actions	Unit 3 Data on school disciplinary actions
Module 6	School readiness	Unit 1 Definition	Unit 2 Domains to assess school readiness	Unit 3 Data on school readiness
Module 7	Next steps	Unit 1 Next steps
Module 8	Appendices	Unit 1 Appendix A: Key terms	Unit 2 Appendix B. School disciplinary action scenario workflows	Unit 3 Appendix C: School readiness assessment tools	Unit 4 Appendix D: Legal considerations	Unit 5 Appendix E. Additional data sharing information, resources and considerations	Unit 6 Appendix F. User stories	Unit 7 Feedback survey
Module 9	References	Unit 1 References

Overview

The Child Development Studies team within the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collaborated with the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) to create this playbook as a resource for state, territorial, local, and tribal (STLT) health departments to assess and improve child and adolescent mental health (CAMH). To this end, the playbook highlights the rationale for public health engagement in CAMH, suggests ways that health departments can form partnerships to assess and improve CAMH, and proposes three indicators – data that schools generally have available or can make available, such as attendance, disciplinary actions, and school readiness – that can be used to begin assessing CAMH at the population-level. The playbook also includes information and resources related to legal considerations, terminologies, and data standards related to the collection and use of CAMH data.

This playbook is organized around “Three Truths” related to gathering and using data to assess and improve CAMH:

Disclosure Statement: This project was supported by cooperative agreement number U38OT000316, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC or Department of Health and Human Services.