Your school has the power to help students overcome barriers to well-being and academic achievement--from mental health issues to substance abuse to trauma. With this timely guide, you will learn how to launch and sustain high-quality wraparound services embedded within your school that meet the needs of every learner. Use the book's actionable steps to amplify student voice, establish community partnerships, and design programming that fully supports the whole child.
Use this resource to establish processes that address the what, how, where, and who of the wraparound center.
- Recognize the impact of outside influences on students and how they affect their classroom learning.
- Design processes to hear student voices and identify their needs.
- Forge relationships with students and establish community partnerships.
- Design and fund services and programs that meet student needs.
- Connect students and families with the support they need to enable learning, wellness, and healthy relationships.
Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Laying the Foundation
Chapter 1: Understand Core Concepts
Part II: Gathering Student Voice
Chapter 2: Identify Needs
Chapter 3: Establish Priorities
Part III: Building Your Infrastructure
Chapter 4: Identify Resources
Chapter 5: Establish Partnerships
Chapter 6: Secure Funding
Chapter 7: Create Your Structure
Part IV: Launching and Sustaining Wraparound Services
Chapter 8: Connect Students and Families With Services
Chapter 9: Sustain Wraparound Programming
Epilogue
Appendix: Pull It All Together
References
Index
Leigh Colburn is a career educator, community leader, and educational consultant working with school districts that wish to create wraparound service opportunities for their students and families. For ten years, Leigh proudly served as the principal of Marietta High School (Marietta, Georgia) until founding the Graduate Marietta Student Success Center on July 1, 2015.
As director of the Success Center, she established dynamic partnerships with the Marietta Board of Education, the city council, public safety departments, and community groups to improve the quality of life for Marietta's teens. During her career with Marietta City Schools, Leigh garnered many awards. She was recognized as one of seventy-five notable women in the history of Cobb County, Georgia; she received the Cobb County Creating Community Award; and she was named Marietta High School's Distinguished Alumna of the Year, Marietta City Schools' Employee of the Year, Marietta's Citizen of the Year, and liveSAFE Resources' Woman of the Year.
Leigh earned degrees from Kennesaw State University, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Alabama.
Linda Beggs is a veteran facilitator focused on helping organizations and individuals work better together to produce results. Linda's extensive work in schools and nonprofits, paired with her background in corporate culture and change management, prepared her to engage schools in creating the high-trust culture essential to implementing wraparound resource centers.
Linda is certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) and worked for over ten years as a consultant with FranklinCovey. Her client list includes Chattahoochee Tech, Cobb County School System, liveSAFE Resources, the Arthur Blank Family of Businesses, Cobb EMC, Honda, Pepsi, Duracell, WellStar, Lockheed Martin, and the Southern Company.
Linda is active in her community, having served on various boards and committees, including Marietta High School's College and Career Academy Steering Committee and boards and committees for Leadership Engaged, Mentoring for Leadership, and liveSAFE Resources' Women of Achievement. She is a graduate and past chair of Leadership Cobb. She enjoys studying with the Anne Hudgins Shakespeare Class.
Linda is a proud graduate of the University of Georgia s Terry College of Business.
