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Student services highlights safety drills, mental-health partnerships and anonymous tip tools
Summary
The district’s student services leader described counseling, social-work capacity, the See Something Say Something tip system, Rave and monitoring tools and plans for an all-staff active-shooter drill this summer.
Deacon Ward, director of Student Services for Burke County Public Schools, told the board the department oversees counselors, social workers, nurses, school resource officers and other student-support functions that address academic, social, emotional and mental-health needs.
Ward said the district currently employs 41 student-services staff (nine social workers and the remainder counselors), and described roles including foster-care coordination, McKinney-Vento services…
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