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Evergreen Park student support services outlines SEL curriculum, resource hub, neurodiversity week and Special Olympics
Summary
Rebecca Terrell, director of student support services at Evergreen Park ESD 124, described the department’s work on a community resource directory, social-emotional learning programs, a partnership with parentguidance.org, a neurodiversity spirit week and the district’s second annual Special Olympics.
In a district webinar, Rebecca Terrell, director of student support services for Evergreen Park ESD 124, summarized current programs and next steps for the department, including a community resource mapping project, expanded social-emotional learning (SEL) work and plans for a neurodiversity spirit week and Special Olympics culminating event.
Terrell said the department is organizing a district community leadership team that now includes school and community partners and is finishing a needs assessment to produce a centralized resource directory for families. “We put that needs assessment out there... we’re doing what’s called resource mapping,” Terrell said, describing work to list academic supports, parenting-education classes, mental-health resources, housing assistance and food assistance and to determine where that information will be hosted and how it will be kept current.
The resource guide is in draft form; Terrell said…
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