Results of the study showed that with a modest investment of time, help seeking for mental health difficulties could be increased substantially and the number of individuals who were referred for mental health services could be increased. The results indicate that help seeking behavior could be facilitated with a modest investment of resources and that the intervention increases the identification of the number of individuals with difficulties that warrant referral for treatment. An added finding was the consistency with previous studies showing that help seeking was greater in girls than in boys. Although the need for early intervention for mental health difficulties was widely acknowledged, few studies had attempted to explicitly increase actual help seeking behavior for mental health difficulties. In this study, students in intervention classrooms received two, 1 hour, in class workshops on distress and help seeking and were compared to students in non-intervention classrooms in a two-level hierarchical model. Tables, references