Participants,in collaboration with others, demonstrate skills to promote services that enhance learning, mental and behavioral health, safety, and physical well-being through protective and adaptive factors and to implement effective crisis preparation, response, and recovery.

Examples of professional practices include:

Using knowledge of risk and protective factors to address problems such as school completion, truancy, bullying, youth suicide, and school violence.
Developing, implementing, and evaluating prevention and intervention programs that address precursors to severe learning and behavioral problems.
Participating in school crisis prevention and response teams.
Participating and evaluating programs that promote safe and violence-free schools and communities.