Keeping Students Safe and Helping Them Thrive: A Collaborative Handbook on School Safety, Mental Health, and Wellness [2 volumes]

Details the safety, mental health, and wellness issues in schools today and focuses on the interactions and collaborations needed among students, teachers, families, community members, and other professionals to foster the safety, learning, and well-being of all students.

• Brings together cross-disciplinary and cross-stakeholder teams from education, counseling, psychology, human services, juvenile justice, law, and other fields

• Focuses on promotion, prevention, early and intensive intervention, and treatment for safety and wellness in schools

• Highlights collaborative, culturally competent approaches to family and youth engagement

• Provides strategies for threat assessment as well as crisis preparedness and management

• Focuses on grades K–12 and on the professionals, parents, and community members who can help to create safe, supportive, successful, and equitable schools