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EPIC Blended Learning Charter counseling team says teacher referrals and family requests account for most of 6,000+ contacts
Summary
A counseling staff member at EPIC Blended Learning Charter told meeting participants that more than 6,000 individual referral contacts have come to the school's counseling team, primarily via teacher referrals, enrollment opt-ins and direct family emails.
A counseling staff member at EPIC Blended Learning Charter said the school's counseling team has received a little over 6,000 individual referral contacts and that the largest pathway is teacher referrals.
“I would say the largest number is coming from teacher referrals. Teacher has spoken with the, spoken with the family, has spoken with the student, and they would like to be contacted by a counselor. So that's 1 pathway that's coming into us,” the staff member said during the meeting.
The staff member described two other common referral routes: families who request counseling when they enroll and families who email or request direct services. “During enrollment, students and families can also say, yes. I would like for a school counselor to reach out to me, and that directly comes to our team to make contact,” the staff member said. The staff member added that parent-initiated referrals are growing.
A questioner asked for clarification about the roughly 6,000 contacts, whether that figure represents unique families or multiple contacts per family. “Okay. The other question was, you'd mentioned that there were, I believe, a little over 6,000 families that you had been in contact with. Are those individual families, or are they maybe multiple contacts of the same family? How does that work?” the questioner asked.
The counseling staff member responded that the figure refers to individual referrals that have come in and acknowledged the possibility that some families appear more than once in the referral list. “So that those are individual referrals that have come in. There could be some that have, 2,” the staff member said.
No formal actions, votes or policy decisions on counseling staffing or funding were recorded in the transcript excerpt provided. The discussion in the meeting focused on how referrals reach the counseling team and on the count of referrals received.
