Student Support Services

Each school in the district is staffed with a licensed social worker, a trained mental health professional to assist with:

• Mental health
• Positive behavioral support
• Academic and classroom support
• Attendance concerns
• Consultation with teachers, parents and administrators
• Provide individual and group counseling

In addition to these supports, the role of the school social worker is to connect students and families to various resources in the community. The social workers also serve as their designated building homeless liaison to help students and families who are experiencing homelessness.

The district support services include equity & inclusion specialists. The role of the equity specialists is to support students and their families by providing information, educational services and intervention services. Equity specialists work to empower students to achieve to the best of their ability by helping with issues both at school and at home. The specialists also serve as a link between diverse and cultural differences among students and school personnel.

Our school counselors support our students by assisting students, their parents, the staff and community members in their involvement in the educational process.  He/she functions in the areas of human development, educational theory, group process, evaluation, career development, counseling, intervention, referral, and in‐service growth.

Our Health Service is available to enhance and support the educational process by modifying, treating, and removing health related barriers that affect the student's learning. Our goal is to develop and maintain each student's optimal health, thereby increasing their learning potential.

Health Services provides care that promotes students' academic success by:

• Managing chronic health care conditions.
• Providing interventions that return students to class.
• Intervening to lessen the number of students sent home.
• Identifying health related barriers and referring for appropriate care.
• Providing health screenings such as hearing and vision.
• Promoting a safe and healthy school environment.
• Encouraging independence in managing own health care.
• Promoting student and staff wellness.

Our deans work collaboratively with students, families, teachers, building staff and community resources to foster students' academic success, post-secondary planning, career exploration and personal/social development.  

School psychologists help to provide assessment, diagnosis, counseling, and consultation to improve the educational progress and adjustment of students in ability, achievement, behavior, and social‐emotional relationships.