The Student Support Team may be known as The Child Study Team or the Student Assistance Team. While the primary functions of these two teams are different, both teams are necessary to create safe, educationally sound learning environments. The teams have different responsibilities, but coordination is necessary. To facilitate this coordination, the teams should have a number of members in common, such as the principal, a teacher, and the school's mental health professional. A dynamic, collaborative relationship, in which knowledge and information are continuously shared, will help ensure that the schoolwide, early, and intensive interventions are aligned to meet the goals of a safe and effective school.
Safe schools are strategic and smart.
They identify and assess their needs and strengths, determine their safe school goals and objectives, align their efforts with other school reform and community initiatives, select and implement evidence-based approaches to realize these goals and objectives, coordinate and monitor their implementation, and evaluate the effect of their interventions. These responsibilities require team members who have the appropriate expertise, credibility with relevant stakeholders, access to resources, and authority to act. Prevention, early intervention, and intensive intervention. Chapter 5 describes the role of this team. Safe schools have Student Support Teams to assess the needs of children who exhibit early warning signs.