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School Mental Health Consultant

In participating schools, the School Mental Health Consultant helps children, youth, and their families by providing specialized services that improve student functioning in school and create strong connections between home and school.

School Mental Health Consultant provide a variety of services for children and their families to develop skills that will allow them to better function in all areas of their lives.

Specialized Services

• Psychosocial Assessments
• Substance Use Assessments
• Crisis Intervention
• Individual, group and family counseling regarding a variety of issues Stress Management
  • Anger and conflict management
  • Communication Skills
  • Social Skills training
  • Parenting education and Support
  • Substance use education and treatment
• Case management services including
  • Linking families with community resources and supports
  • Coordinating psychiatric and medical treatment as needed
  • Coordinating services with other involved agencies
• Educating and consulting with schools regarding mental health and substance abuse
• Assisting school staff with handling critical incidents that impact students.

These goals are attained through the combined efforts of school professionals, School Mental Health Consultants, Partnership with Families Care Coordinator, parents, and other involved community representatives.

About the Program
Services are individualized and planned collaboratively with school, family, and other involved agencies and community partners. Treatment goals are reviewed by all parties on an ongoing basis, and intervention ends when goals are met.

Counselors work with children, youth and their families to improve school functioning in a wide variety of areas (attendance, behavior, academic achievement, etc.)

Services are delivered by professionally trained, Masters level therapists.

Children and youth are referred by school counselors, principals, and special education teachers.

The program is available for children and adolescents from preschool through high school in those schools currently under contract to receive services.