Special Education
FAPE
What is Free Appropriate Public Education?
(A basic right for all students.)
The first step in the referral process to homeless education services.
What is a Completed housing survey?
ILP
What is the Independent Living Program?
This term refers to students missing 10 percent or more of school days during a school year for any reason.
What is "chronic absence"?
The 3 traditional tiers of social work practice.
What is micro, mezzo and macro practice?
A meeting to identify students who need more academic support.
What is an SST (Student Study Team) meeting?
The Federal law that addresses educational barriers for families experiencing homelessness.
What is the McKinney-Vento Act?
Name one of the three other programs foster youth services oversees.
What are:
ALCOHOL, TOBACCO & OTHER DRUGS (ATOD) Program
Pregnant & Parenting Teens Program
Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC)
SCUSD's office that aims to foster strong relationships, ensure every student feels welcomed, and address obstacles to consistent school attendance.
What is the "Student Attendance and Engagement Office"?
The guiding document that Social Workers use to guide our practice, no matter the setting.
What is the NASW Code of Ethics?
A student's educational plan developed by guardians, teacher, school psychologist and other school staff.
What is an Individualized Education Program/ Plan?
Immediate enrollment, school choice, transportation assistance are all part of this.
What are the Unhoused Student Rights?
Provides foster youth educational rights dictated by the best interests of the youth and allows foster youth to remain in their school of origin when their placement changes for the duration of the school year.
What is AB 490 ~ Ensuring Educational Rights for Foster Youth?
In California, it's when a student has three unexcused absences, three tardies of over 30 minutes each time or a combination thereof.
What is "truancy"?
Speaking for/on behalf of clients or client populations; empowering clients to advocate for their needs.
What is Social Work Advocacy?
The amount of time between the guardian's signing the assessment plan and the IEP meeting to go over assessments?
What is sixty days?
A student living outside of their schools attendance area qualifies for this.
What is a transportation referral?
District Graduation Requirement Waiver for Foster Youth
What is AB 167~ Exempts foster youth from local graduation requirements under certain conditions if they have experienced a school placement change during the 11th or 12th grade.
An acronym representing a board at Public School Districts in California that intervenes with truant or chronically absent students to support regular attendance.
What is "SARB" (School Attendance Review Board)?
NASW, NASW-CA, CASSW are examples
What are professional social work organizations?
ERMHS
What is Educationally Related Mental Health Services?
A licensed School Social Worker may fill this role for SCUSD Special Education students who qualify.
This support available to ALL students is accessed through the Homeless Education Services Office.
What are the clothing and supply closets?
Name two services that Foster Youth Services provides to elementary students.
What is
Academic Support ● In-Class Behavioral Support ● Mentoring ● Advocacy ● Case Management ● Referral to Community Resources ?
An acronym representing a school based meeting that intervenes with chronically absent students to support regular attendance by creating an Agreement with parents and families
What is an ESP or Engagement Support Team?
These funds target specific groups of students in our district with additional funding to support student academic progress.
What is the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)?