Policy
This needs to be created with the student, family, and school team after conducting a threat assessment.
What is a Response Management Support Plan (or RMS plan)?
One or more of the names of interventions that WPSD offers as alternatives to suspension 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 focuses on building a strong career and college readiness strand K-12.
What is the School Counseling Corps Grant (CDE)?
The ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors are organized in these three broad domains.
What are academic, career, and social/emotional development?
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, Universal Tier 1 services are targeting which students?
What are all students?
This is a five-year grant with 2 half time allocations in the Middle School and High School with prevention-specific objectives.
What is the Substance Abuse Block Grant (OBH/SAMHSA)?
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)?
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 professionals are guided by.
What is FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)?
Mental Health Teams need time to do this at least weekly in order to work most effectively together.
What is collaborate?
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)?
Social worker licensure with DORA expires every _____ years.
What is two years?
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. This Act imposes a limited waiver of sovereign immunity for schools if a school fails to exercise "reasonable care" to protect all students, faculty and staff from "reasonably foreseeable" acts of violence that occurs at school or a school-sponsored activity.
What is the Claire Davis Act?
When community funding is spent on prevention, this happens to community costs for interventions.
What is costs decrease?
This is a grant that has provided multiple positions in secondary education over the years to address connection through community building, opportunities to resolve conflict restoratively, and engagement in ongoing relationship building.
What is the Restorative Practices Grant (EARSS)?
Name at least one of the WPSD Evaluation Standards for Counselors/Social Workers.
What is (1) Mastery of and expertise in the domain, (2) Support and establishment of safe, inclusive, and respectful learning environments for a diverse population of students, (3) Plan and deliver effective services in an environment that facilitates learning for students, (4) Demonstrate professionalism through ethical conduct, reflection, and leadership?
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 trained colleague (either in my building or at another school) who can handle the situation immediately?
__________ need to be notified after any conversation with a student about self-harm and/or suicidality, and well as 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 facilitate a small group or class lesson?
This is an expired 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?
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?
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?