Inspired by Dr.’s Howard Adelman & Linda Taylor, Co-directors of UCLA’s Center for Mental Health in Schools, Comprehensive System of Learning Supports framework and Gallaudet University Dr. Francis Duffy, author, and professor of how to create and sustain large-scale change in organizations.

The CHES method improves the school planning process for community stakeholders presenting a systematic approach to build community capacity to address the underlying causes of poor health and academic underperformance. CHES delineates a whole-system approach to influence a series of cause and effect interventions whereas overtime replaces fragmented and piecemeal processes in education, mental health, and healthcare marginalized by obsolete policies with systemic policy’s consistent with delivering community-based and led culturally proficient Behavioral Healthcare.

The CHES method aims to institute a Behavioral Healthcare component within the current K-12 education infrastructure to establish a system of preventive care within elementary and secondary education. The effects of this paradigm shift from fragmented health services and low education outcomes into an effectively coordinated community-led system of preventive Behavioral Healthcare aims to transform K-12 education into a student-centered system.