About Student Support Services
The goal of the NCESD Student Support Services Department is to assist our school personnel to build supportive learning environments through the continuous development of age-appropriate prevention and intervention services. As the use of substances and involvement with violence have been linked in research to academic failure, our mission is to remove non-academic barriers to learning in order to become productive, secure, and self-sufficient members of their communities.
Areas of focus include:
- Student Assistance Prevention & Intervention Services Program (for students at-risk of substance use or impacted by others’ use)
- Healthy Youth Survey support & data training
- Educational Advocates (for students at-risk of juvenile justice involvement)
- Student Threat Assessment (for school-based teams to assess, monitor, and support students at-risk for violent behaviors)
- Readiness To Learn early intervention staffing cooperative (via Title 1/LAP funding, for at-risk students experiencing non-academic barriers to learning)
- Suicide Prevention & Intervention training & technical assistance to schools
- Signs of Suicide prevention program trainer for school implementation
- Check & Connect (Tier 3 intervention) program trainer for school administrators, coordinators, & mentors
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) training & technical support for school response
- Youth Mental Health First Aid trainer for school staff
- Mental Health in High Schools health curriculum trainer for school teachers and/or school counselors
- Improvement Science
Currently Funded Programs
- CPWI SAPISP sites
- Educational Advocate sites
- Highly Capable cooperative
- Calendar of annual HiCap activities
- WaKIDS teacher training
- Readiness To Learn cooperative
- Equity & Measures
Resources
Staff Training Menu
- ACEs 101 – what is it?
- ACEs 201 – what can we do about it?
- Check & Connect, evidence-based Tier 3 student engagement model, NREPP best practice
- Suicide Prevention, Intervention, & Postvention (including 3-hour required for school counselors – link to OSPI cert info)
- Youth Mental Health First Aid
- Root Cause Analysis of Disciplinary Disproportionality
- Community Truancy Boards training (in development)
Areas of Initiative
- CHI/ACH/Opioid Workgroup
- SAPISP/CPWI
1. Healthy Youth Survey - Education Advocate, Title I Part D
- Highly Capable
- Early Childhood
- Equity & Measures
1. HB 1541 - Adverse Childhood Experiences/School-Based Response to Trauma
- Social-Emotional Learning/Washington State K-12 SEL Standards
- McKinney-Vento Homeless TA support
- School-based Mental Health
- School Counselor support