The Wraparound Guide

"Out-of-school factors heavily affect learning. Mental illness, familial issues, social pressure, and more all impact how students perform in the classroom, and few schools have built the infrastructure necessary to offer full-spectrum (wraparound) services necessary to address the needs of the Whole Child. The Centergy Cycle by Leigh Colburn and Linda Beggs supplies a step-by-step process for providing high-quality wraparound services for students, beginning with student voice. Colburn and Beggs-backed up by their own experience-have built a system for helping students by listening to them. Through this approach, they offer schools the knowledge and processes necessary to establish wraparound centers with programming designed to meet the needs of both students and families to ensure students can focus on what matters most in the classroom-learning"--