Moving prevention from the fringes into the fabric of school improvement

If prevention initiatives are to get beyond their current marginalized and fragmented status, they must be framed in a comprehensive context. This art icle places primary prevention at one end of a comprehensive continuum of i nterventions and explores the continuum in terms of a component for address ing barriers to development and learning. Such a component is conceptualize d as primary and essential to successful school reform. Current concerns an d emerging trends related to policy, research, practice, and training are h ighlighted, and general implications for systemic changes are suggested.