School-based Practices Advancing Resilience in Kids Laboratory

University of South Carolina’s

SPARK Lab

Advancing School Behavioral Health

This lab studies the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based mental and behavioral health services for youth and families in school and community settings, and more specifically, the delivery of culturally responsive and trauma-informed multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS).

The SPARK Lab is directed by Malena A. Nygaard, PhD, NCSP, LP and is situated within the University of South Carolina’s School Psychology program and Center for School Behavioral Health.