Literature review
School-based interventions
While the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children would benefit from mental health services delivered in educational settings, such support is not always offered to them. For instance, according to a review of school-based mental health and behavioural programmes conducted by Farahmand, Grant, Polo and Duffy (2011), few effective programmes do exist that are designed especially for low-income urban youth. Indeed, sever alof the school-based assessed interventions are intended for immigrant and refugee children. This could be explained by the fact that this population’s utilization rate of mental healthcare is usually low(DesMeules, Gold, Payne, & Vissandjée, 2004), making refugee and immigrant children hard to reach in typical clinical settings. Having access to mental health professionals inside the school grounds is thus an alternative that needs to be considered when wanting to get 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