Developing Comprehensive School Safety and Mental Health Programs: An Integrated Approach

Developing Comprehensive School Safety and Mental Health Programs offers an integrated, long-term plan to create safe and supportive learning environments.

This user-friendly guide illustrates how to develop, implement, evaluate, and sustain multiple evidence-based programs that work. This book informs school mental health professionals, administrators, and teachers about multi-tiered service delivery, organizational development, and facilitating the implementation process. It describes the complementary roles of school administrators, counselors, and school psychologists, providing school staff with time, resources, and ongoing support to strengthen their skills and sustain programs they have embraced. It expresses empathy and appreciation for teachers, advocating for their personal growth, professional collaboration, and stress management.

School leaders, facilitators, and teams are provided the knowledge, skills, and long-term plans to effectively advocate, assess needs, select programs, train and encourage staff, provide resources, and implement, evaluate, and sustain desired goals.

Jeffrey C. Roth, PhD, NCSP, has initiated and led a school-wide conflict resolution program, positive behavioral supports, crisis response team, social skills curriculum, and professional development programs. He has served as an adjunct professor at Wilmington University and a Red Cross Disaster Mental Health volunteer, and was awarded Delaware’s School Psychologist of the Year.

Terri A. Erbacher, PhD, has served as a school psychologist for over 20 years, was a professor at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine for over 13 years, and has a private practice at erbacherconsulting.com. Dr. Erbacher has won numerous awards for crisis-based community service, including Pennsylvania’s School Psychologist of the Year.