The Wraparound Guide How to Gather Student Voice, Build Community (a Wraparound Service Delivery Handbook for Helping Students Overcome Barriers to Wellness and Learning)Partnerships, and Cultivate Hope

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 "Out-of-school factors heavily affect learning. Mental illness, familial issues, social pressure, and more all impact how students perform in the classroom, and few schools have built the infrastructure necessary to offer full-spectrum (wraparound) services necessary to address the needs of the Whole Child. The Centergy Cycle by Leigh Colburn and Linda Beggs supplies a step-by-step process for providing high-quality wraparound services for students, beginning with student voice. Colburn and Beggs-backed up by their own experience-have built a system for helping students by listening to them. Through this approach, they offer schools the knowledge and processes necessary to establish wraparound centers with programming designed to meet the needs of both students and families to ensure students can focus on what matters most in the classroom-learning"-- Provided by publisher