Transcript MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLS & PBIS Elsa Velez, Ph.D. PBIS Coordinator Charles County Public Schools.

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR
MIDDLE SCHOOLS & PBIS
Elsa Velez, Ph.D.
PBIS Coordinator
Charles County Public Schools
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Grant funded by Charles County Public Schools
Director of Student Services
Part of the School Improvement Plan
Main Focus: Counseling services for all middle
schools and the Alternative School
 Extension of elementary school program
 Proposals reviewed
Tri County Youth Services
Bureau
 Qualified master’s level clinicians
 Interventions coordinated with those services
provided by guidance counselors and school
psychologists
 SST and administrators to identify students to be
referred
 Clinicians usually part of SST and PBIS teams
Five components:
 Individual
 Peer
 Family
 School
 Community
Program Goals and Objectives:
 Reduce disruptive classroom behavior and
discipline referrals
 Increase parental engagement in school
 Provide support to school psychologists to
increase classroom management
 Improve student academic achievement
 Improve attendance
Evaluation
 Individual-Beck Youth InventoriesTM,
Academic Grades, School Attendance, # of
referrals and suspensions
 Family-Parent Satisfaction Survey & the
North Carolina Family Assessment Scale
 School-Satisfaction Survey