Promoting Family Centered Support Assessment and Intervention

This paper describes a new paradigm for addressing threats of school violence. We advance a family-centered approach to supporting students to address the contextual characteristics of school violence and promote collaboration among families, school personnel, and students. We present a case study that demonstrate the utility of this family-centered approach. We conclude by articulating practice and research implications for using this family-centered approach as a primary avenue to increase school and community safety and to improve social-emotional outcomes for students.