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SEL director emphasizes crisis response partnerships and tracking as part of three-year plan
Summary
The district—social-emotional learning director reviewed year-one achievements (Project Aware training, counselor referral forms) and proposed expanding partnerships with community mental-health providers, monthly mental-health events, and Synergy-based referral and tracking to shorten response times.
Miss Anna Cordon, the district—director of social and emotional learning, opened her presentation with a brief mindfulness exercise and described the SEL office—roles in linking school-based supports with external mental-health services.
Cordon summarized year-one work under Project Aware: a suicide-prevention walk and staff trainings that reached most staff and bus transportation employees. She described a Google-based anonymous bullying-report form now linked on the district website and a counselor referral form that feeds alerts to site administrators and counselors when key search terms are flagged.
To build on that foundation, Cordon said the district will expand partnerships with Arizona Complete Health (crisis mobile team), Intermountain Center for Human Development (counseling provider), Spectrum, the Cook Foundation and other providers. She proposed piloting "Ask a Therapist" live Q&A events, reintroducing the monthly mental-health series and using Synergy to capture referral and service data for better trends and response times.
Board members thanked Cordon for the work and urged ongoing staff training to scale classroom-level practices such as mindfulness and teacher-led self-regulation strategies.
Ending: Directors and board members agreed to continue collaboration and track state reporting obligations tied to these services.
