Policy
This needs to be created with the student, family, and school team after conducting a threat screen or threat assessment.
What is a Response Management Support Plan (or RMS plan)?
What are one or more of the names of interventions that WPSD offers as alternatives to suspension practices for substance use infractions.
What are the Second Chance Program, the Marijuana Infraction Response, Restorative Practices, and in some cases, Teen Court?
This is a five-year grant that puts an additional counselor in each building for the duration of the grant and has building-specific objectives that must be met yearly in order to keep the funding.
What is the School Counseling Corps Grant Program (CDE)?
ASCA standards state that a minimum of 80% of counselor time should be spent in _____________ and no more than 20% should be spent in _____________.
What are (part 1) direct and indirect services (part 2) program planning and school support activities?
A teacher reports that a student has cuts on his wrist. These are the steps I would take.
What is notify building admin of the situation, meet with the student to learn more, if the student endorses self-harm without suicidal ideation, complete the NSSI screener (with or without a second person)? If the student endorses suicidality, immediately locate another approved secondary staff member to the conversation and complete the NSSI and SI screeners.
You need this document to be signed by a parent or guardian in order to share any information outside of the school system.
What is a Release of Information (ROI)?
In MTSS, Tier 1 services are targeting which students?
What are all students?
This is a five-year grant with 2 .5 FTE positions in secondary education with prevention-specific objectives.
What is the Substance Abuse Block Grant (OBH/SAMHSA)?
Social worker licensure with DORA expires every _____ years.
What are two years?
The student I am working with displays failing grades and presents with depression along with low school attachment. He does not have evident connections with staff members. After contacting the family, I learned that the family is currently staying in a friend's home, the adults are struggling with job loss, marital stress, and previous DHS engagement. Additionally, there are other children in the home, one of which is at risk for dropping out and another who is not connected to early childhood programming but is eligible. Multiple referrals need to be made for this family system. This is the name of the team process that would offer comprehensive referrals to provide support to the entire family.
What is ISST (Individualized Service and Support Team)?
HIPAA privacy policies must be followed in community mental health organizations. This is the name of the policy that school mental health professionals are guided by.
What is FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)?
Mental Health Teams need time to do this regularly in order to work most effectively together?
What is collaboration?
This is a three-year grant that places an additional master's level Social Worker, Counselor, or Nurse in each building in an effort to provide community resources, family support, substance use interventions, and to implement an evidence-based social-emotional learning curriculum.
What is the School Health Professional Grant (CDE)?
This endorsement is required for all counselors, social workers, and psychologists to be employable in a school.
What is the Special Services Provider endorsement (CDE)?
I suspect a student is under the influence of a substance. These are the steps I would take.
What is notify administrator, have the student checked out by the nurse, decide next steps with your admin (may include: MAP intervention, SRO or campus security intervention, backpack/locker search, referral for resources and treatment, parent/guardian discussion, or other)
This act came into legislation after significant mass violence occurred in schools.
What is the Claire Davis Act?
When community funding is spent on prevention, this happens to community costs for interventions.
What is decrease?
This is a grant that has provided multiple positions in secondary education to address connection through community building, opportunities to resolve conflict restoratively, and engage in ongoing relationship building?
What is the Restorative Practices Grant (EARSS)?
Social Workers are guided and expected to first operate within this code.
What is the Code of Ethics?
I have been informed that a student needs to be screened for suicidality and I have another commitment that would prevent me from doing the screener immediately.
What is cancel your commitment or find another colleague who can handle the situation immediately?
__________ need to be notified after any conversation with a student about self-harm and or/suicidality, and threats to others regardless of the level of concern.
Who are parents and guardians?
This is an efficient and effective way to meet with more students for academic, career, and social/emotional needs rather than meeting in a one-on-one setting.
What is a psychoeducational, SEL, or skills group?
This is a grant that requires all WPSD employees, partner agencies, and some community members to receive the Question Persuade Refer training.
What is the Suicide Prevention Grant?
The ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors are organized in these three broad domains.
What are academic, career, and social/emotional development?
I feel conflicted about making a DHS report because it may escalate the situation, but it meets the criteria for reporting.
What is make a report to DHS and let them know about your concerns for potential escalation?