Data Form A2 - Mental Health and Wellness

Mental Health and Wellness

The entire Mental Health and Wellness Allocation (Section 3D) is limited to expenses related to student mental health.

• The Mental Health Workers (MHW) Staff Component (Section 3D, item 1) is individually enveloped only for spending on MHW salary and benefits. Any remaining amounts will carry forward in deferred revenue to future years, and are restricted for spending on future MHW salary and benefits.

• The Mental Health Leaders Component (Section 3D, item 3) is also individually enveloped. Because it is funded at the lesser of a maximum amount each year and the actual spending on the Mental Health Leader’s salary, benefits, PD, and travel expenses, the restriction occurs automatically in the calculation on Section 3D.

• The Student Mental Health Component (Section 3D, item 2), while also enveloped for specific uses, may be used to cover overspending on MHW staffing and Mental Health Leaders.

Mental Health Workers Envelope

This amount must be used to support the direct hiring or continued employment of regulated mental health professionals, to support students in secondary schools. Regulated mental health professionals may include social workers, psychologists, and psychotherapists. This funding cannot be used to support service contracts for third parties; only school board FTEs may be funded from this envelope.

This envelope appears in column 1 on Data Form A2.

• Item 1 (Enveloping Total Deferred Revenue Available) calculates the available deferred revenue in this envelope as the sum of amounts remaining from the previous year, the current year allocation (Section 3D, item 1), and any earnings on deferred revenue and adjustment from Schedule 5.1 (item 1.5, col. 2.1 + 3).

• Item 2 (FTEs Funded by Component): Input the FTEs of directly employed mental health workers funded by the MHW Staff Component.

• Items 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 (Enveloping - Salary, Enveloping - Benefits, Enveloping - Labour Provision): Input the salary and benefits expenses (and labour provision, if applicable) for mental health workers funded by the MHW Staff Component.

• Item 4 (Net Strike Savings): Input any net strike savings in the year attributable to this envelope.

• Item 5.1 (Base Transfer to Revenue): This is calculated as the lower of available deferred revenues (item 1) and spending in the year plus strike savings (items 3 + 4). Because this component is individually enveloped, this is also the total transfer to revenue (item 5) that is loaded to Schedule 5.1, item 1.5, col. 6.

• Item 5.2 (Overspending on Sub-Envelopes): This is calculated as the total expenses plus strike savings (items 3 + 4) minus the transfer to revenue (item 5.1). It may be covered by the Student Mental Health Envelope in column 2, if remaining deferred revenue exists.

Mental Health Leaders

This envelope appears in column 3 on Data Form A2. The full revenue and expense details for the Mental Health Leaders Component are not loaded to Data Form A2 because the funding on Section 3 is already limited to the lower of generated funding and actual expenses, so there will never be an amount recorded in deferred revenue. However, the following items are loaded to this form:

• Item 2 (FTEs Funded by Component): The Mental Health Leaders FTE is loaded from school board input on Section 3D, item 3.9.

• Item 5.2 (Overspending on Sub-Envelopes): This is calculated as the total expenses (Section 3D, item 3.8) minus funded amount (Section 3D, item 3). It may be covered by the Student Mental Health Envelope in column 2, if remaining deferred revenue exists.

Student Mental Health Envelope

The envelope is intended for one or more of the following purposes:

• directly employing mental health professionals (i.e. for salary, wages, and benefits; not third party contracts) to directly support students

• providing professional learning and training for educators, school-based mental health professionals, and system leaders for mental health

• collaborating with community mental health providers to plan for pathways to care for those students requiring more intensive supports outside of mental health services provided by the school/school board (i.e. for collaborative planning purposes and not for supporting service contracts for third parties)

• student engagement opportunities regarding mental health

• the collection, analysis and reporting of student mental health related information

As mentioned above, remaining amounts in this envelope may be used for underspending on mental health workers and mental health leaders.

This envelope appears in column 2 on Data Form A2.

• Item 1 (Enveloping Total Deferred Revenue Available) calculates the available deferred revenue in this envelope as the sum of amounts remaining from the previous year, the current year allocation (Section 3D, item 2), and any earnings on deferred revenue and adjustment from Schedule 5.1 (item 1.6, col. 2.1 + 3).

• Item 2 (FTEs Funded by Component): Input the FTEs of directly employed staff funded by this component.

• Items 3.1 to 3.8 (Enveloping - Expenses): Input the expenses funded by this component.

• Item 4 (Net Strike Savings): Input any net strike savings in the year attributable to this envelope.

• Item 5.1 (Base Transfer to Revenue): This is calculated as the lower of available deferred revenues (item 1) and spending in the year plus strike savings (items 3 + 4).

• Item 5.3 (Additional Transfer to Revenue): If remaining deferred revenue exists in this column (item 1 less item 5.1 is positive), then an additional transfer to revenue is calculated to cover overspending on MH Staff and Mental Health Leaders (item 5.2).