Linda Taylor

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Linda Taylor
Co-Director, School Mental Health Project and National Center for Mental Health in Schools, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles,
University of California, Los Angeles

Linda Taylor is co-director of the School Mental Health Project and its Center for Mental Health in Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles. A clinical psychologist, she has focused her career on addressing the psychosocial and educational challenges faced by children and adolescents. Taylor previously co-directed the Fernald Laboratory School and Clinic at UCLA and led a project on the mental health facets of school-based health centers funded. She also served as a clinical psychologist for the Los Angeles Unified School District, where she directed the Early Assistance for Students and Families Project, a U.S. Department of Education-funded systemic reform initiative aimed at strengthening school and community efforts to remove barriers to learning and promote healthy development. Her work continues to focus on policies, practices, and large-scale systemic transformation to improve student support systems nationwide.

updated 2025

Contributing topics
Continuous school improvement & support
Educator workforce & effectiveness
Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health
Contributing initiatives
COVID-19 Recovery
Linda Taylor in the Media
: Restructuring California Schools to Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching in the COVID-19 Context and Beyond
Publications by Linda Taylor
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Restructuring California Schools to Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching in the COVID‑19 Context and Beyond
This brief highlights the need and ways to transform—systematically—how schools address the overlapping learning, behavioral, and emotional problems that can