Brevard Public Schools School Climate and Safety Study, Florida, 2015-2018

The Brevard County (Florida) School Board conducted a school climate and safety study between the years of 2015 and 2018 with students, school personnel, and school resource officers from law enforcement. The purpose of the study was to implement a comprehensive mental health program that involved placing social workers in schools. The intervention involved training personnel on youth mental health and an emotion regulation intervention for high discipline youth. The evaluation of the program involved pretest/posttest assessments of the trainings, and surveys of students and school personnel to assess improvements in the school environment. The evaluation of the program was a nonexperimental, longitudinal study.