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CUSD reports counseling, social work and Hope Institute activity; board questions third-party campus services
Summary
District director Natasha Davis and counseling/social-services staff presented staffing levels, prevention/intervention programming and Hope Institute referral outcomes at the Dec. 11 study session; board members raised concerns about off-campus providers operating on school sites
Natasha Davis, director of counseling and social services for Chandler Unified School District, briefed the governing board Dec. 11 on counseling and social-work staffing, prevention programs, crisis response and partnerships that provide on-campus or near-campus behavioral health services.
Davis said the district employs 122 school counselors and social workers and that the district has at least one counselor or social worker at every campus. The presentation framed services on a prevention—intervention—postvention continuum and described classroom lessons, districtwide Teen Mental Health First Aid training for 11th graders and partnerships that deliver clinical services on campus under memoranda of understanding.
District prevention staff described use of a statewide youth survey administered locally to inform programming. Dr. Robert Ramos, prevention coordinator, summarized the Arizona survey participation by grade and said the district used the data to…
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