Each year, the NASP Social Justice Committee selects a theme to help focus efforts and increase awareness within the school psychology community. This year's theme is alternative education programs, which can include a wide range of placements with varied goals and purposes. Alternative programs are educational placements that serve youth whose…

Traumatic stress has long been a source of interest for researchers and practitioners, and recently there has been an increase in federal and state legislative support for trauma-informed care (Maul, 2017). Globally, the need for trauma services has been pushed to the foreground as the myriad of negative outcomes associated with the COVID-19…

This fifth article of the Social Justice Committee's series on health disparities expands on previous articles (i.e., Tan et al., 2020; Ormiston et al., 2021) to discuss applications of advocacy by school psychologists to improve health parity for youth. As previously outlined in Proctor et al. (2020), health disparities are restricted…