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Safe Schools/Healthy Students initiative: Pinellas County, Florida
Author(s) -
Armstrong Kathleen Hague,
Massey Oliver T.,
Boroughs Michael,
Bailey Ralph,
LaJoie Diane
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/pits.10105
Subject(s) - psychology , intervention (counseling) , medical education , mental health , generalization , plan (archaeology) , steering committee , resource (disambiguation) , medicine , psychiatry , engineering , engineering management , mathematical analysis , computer network , mathematics , archaeology , computer science , history
The Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiative in Pinellas County, FL, emerged as a part of a broader local effort to implement creative educational and mental health programs to support children and families. This initiative focused on capacity building, prevention, and intervention efforts and comprehensive evaluation to address the barriers to learning and enhance healthy development. This article describes Pinellas County's plan, and highlights the instrumental roles played by school psychologists, which included grant writing, program and resource coordination, clinical services, program evaluation, staff training, parent advocacy, and steering committee membership. Promising outcomes and generalization of these findings to other communities is also discussed. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Psychol Schs 40: 489–501, 2003.