CASCWA 2018 State Conference

Supporting students dealing with homelessness, students in foster care, students with mental illness and at-risk youth requires a comprehensive school based prevention and intervention program that fosters connectedness across multiple levels of the education system. It also requires the promotion of coordination across multiple sectors of society, such as health, social services, law enforcement and others. The social-ecological model recognizes the relationship between the individual and systems he/she interacts with every day. This model helps in understanding the need to develop programs that include teachers, parents, community and the students as allies in promoting wellbeing, prevention and intervention.