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Virginia Beach schools report expanded short-term counseling, after-hours alerts and Care Solace use
Summary
School staff updated the school board on expanded partnerships with CHKD and City child-and-youth behavioral health, after-hours Securly alerts and Care Solace usage; officials said brief counseling, bridge services and rapid response referrals have increased and staff will add social-service coordination next year.
Robert Jamieson, executive director of the Office of Student Support Services, told the Virginia Beach City School Board on May 20 that the division has expanded in-school mental health supports and after-hours response systems.
Jamieson said the division has processed 22 rapid-response referrals this school year, expanded brief counseling (41 referrals since launch at Renaissance Academy), and received 95 bridge referrals for students at risk of psychiatric hospitalization or recently discharged. He said Securly internet filters generate after-hours alerts that are routed to security, emergency management and, when appropriate, CHKD clinicians; CHPD responded to 54 such cases this year compared with 41 after-hours alerts all of last year. "I cannot stress enough the importance and impact of these proactive and…
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