Description

School safety takes a “village” of adults and students with varied interests, perspectives, and abilities collaborating to create safe, supportive, and academically productive schools. American schools today are the unofficial mental health care providers for a growing number of children and youth who are placed at risk by social and economic circumstances and whose un- and under addressed needs can compromise teaching and learning. This set helps to draw the needed “village” together by showing educators, administrators, policy makers, mental health and community organizations, families, parents, and students how to join forces to initiate and retain greater school safety and student mental health.

Chapters provide an in-depth understanding of the issues at hand, interventions and preventions, strategies and tools for change, methods of collaboration, and guidance for policy and practice. Case studies of successful and promising cross-system collaborations that have realized school safety and mental health goals are included. This set will interest students, scholars, faculty, and researchers in education, counseling, and psychology; administrators in human services; experts in public policy, juvenile justice, and law enforcement; and activists at student and community organizations.

Author: Wolfe, Elizabeth C

Topic: Sociology
Media: Book
ISBN: 1440859566
Language: English
Pages: 286