Literature review
School-based interventions
While the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children would benefit from mental health services delivered in education alsettings, such support is not always offered to them. Forinstance, according to a review of school-based mental health andbehavioural programmes conducted by Farahmand, Grant, Poloand Duffy (2011), few effective programmes do exist that aredesigned especially for low-income urban youth. Indeed, severalof the school-based assessed interventions are intended for immi-grant and refugee children. This could be explained by the fact thatthis population’s utilization rate of mental healthcare is usually low(DesMeules, Gold, Payne, & Vissandjée, 2004), making refugee andimmigrant children hard to reach in typical clinical settings. Havingaccess to mental health professionals inside the school grounds isthus an alternative that needs to be considered when wanting toget to the most vulnerable.Community-wide traumatic events can also call for mentalhealth services offered in school settings, where access to suchsupport can be more convenient for those in need. When a disasterstrikes, for example, typical intervention channels or infrastruc-tures might be weakened, even destroyed. In circumstances like