"How to Handle with Care": A fast read on a best practice your community can use to start helping kids ASAP!

BOOK REVIEW

“How to Handle with Care”, a new book by author Wendy Samford, PhD, is  step-by-step instruction manual to create — in your community — a best practice that can help end the racially-motivated school-to-prison pipeline one child at a time, and quickly!

How?

By addressing the trauma of each child individually, with a cross-sector approach to supporting hurting children that has law enforcement working with educators all across the United States. (www.handlewithcarewv.org)

Simply put, if law enforcement comes into contact with a child in the course of duty, the name of the child and the words “Handle With Care” will be sent to the child’s school.

This simple message lets trauma-informed school personnel know that something happened to that child and to treat them with kindness.

"If additional services are needed for the child, the family is then informed and bridges are built from law enforcement to schools, and schools to community service agencies," said Samford.

If administrators, faculty, and staff in the school know a child has had a hard night, they can help protect the child from added stresses the next day. For example, instead of having a child who was up in the middle of the night take a test, give an oral book report, or run the risk of acting out emotionally and getting in trouble for it, the child can be led to a quiet corner to rest.

Samford's fast-read guide will show communities starved for ways to stop systemic trauma in education and juvenile law exactly what to do. Best of all, it's in a book you can read in an afternoon, and follow step-by-step.

Already across the country, there are at least five states that are actively using the program, and it is in development in many more states and counties, and there is active interest in the program in almost every state.

For the full report, find the book on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or any major book retailer.

For more information about the book, please contact Wendy Samford at www.wsamford.com

For more information about the Handle With Care program, contact Andrea Darr at  adarr@jbsinternational.com.