Schools are safe.
This is not a simple issue. Still, says Betty Hamburg, a psychiatrist and president of the William T. Grant Foundation which funded the guide, it s clear that mental health is an issue for some students, including perpetrators of the recent shootings. The study, which has been under development for two years, was reviewed by a panel of nine experts. The project working group included six experts, none of whom had a financial interest in school-based violence prevention programs.