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North Ridgeville reports expanded student-wellness services, identifies homelessness and 2,944 annual touch points
Summary
At the July 1 North Ridgeville City Board of Education meeting, staff summarized the district's student-wellness grants, partner providers, programs for students and families, counts of students experiencing homelessness, and a plan to use Panorama surveys for needs assessment.
Jackie Vance, a district staff member, told the North Ridgeville City Board of Education on July 1 that the district uses state Student Wellness and Success funds to pay three staff who deliver mental-health and family support services districtwide.
Vance said the program partners with Ohio Guidestone and the Lorain County Educational Service Center to place three staff members in schools: social workers Tanya Conlin and Rachel Laieth and Liz Wilansky, who Vance identified as an LISW and the district's coordinator of wellness and prevention. "We do receive funds from the state, and we have been annually for the last, I believe, 4 to 5 years that that has been in place," Vance said.
The district reported several measures of service delivery. Vance said social workers provided services to 75…
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