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Healthy Children Through Healthy Schools: A Family, School, Community, and MUSC Partnership
Scott W. Henggeler, PhD
College of Medicine
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Specific Aims:
- Develop a prevention and treatment model in middle schools to decrease antisocial behavior and improve mental functioning and school performance
- Develop manuals to apply the program in other schools
- Evaluate cost-effectiveness
- Develop a model of neighborhood collaboration
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| Criminal violence, drug use and abuse, and other antisocial behaviors of inner-city youth are costly to society. A new community partnership among Charleston City Schools, neighborhood residents, the mayor's office, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, South Carolina Department of Mental Health, South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice, South Carolina Department of Social Services, and the Medical University of South Carolina will address mental health problems of inner city youth. The Family Services Research Center of MUSC will serve as the lead agency for this project which will develop programs for middle schools to prevent and treat these problems in order to decrease antisocial behavior and improve mental functioning and school performance among inner-city youth. Dr. Henggeler and his colleagues will work to change the school climate to do away with bullying, for example, and decrease tobacco and marijuana use. They will develop manuals so that similar programs can be reproduced in other places. The partnership itself will be a model of neighborhood collaboration with state agencies and the health care delivery system. Finally, the project will estimate the cost effectiveness of the prevention and treatment model. |
For more information contact
Phillippe Cunningham, PhD
College of Medicine
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