About Student Support Services
The goal of the NCESD Student Support Services Department is to assist our school personnel to build supportive learning environments through the continuous development of age-appropriate prevention and intervention services. As the use of substances and involvement with violence have been linked in research to academic failure, our mission is to remove non-academic barriers to learning in order to become productive, secure, and self-sufficient members of their communities.
Areas of focus include:
- Student Assistance Prevention & Intervention Services Program (for students at-risk of substance use or impacted by others’ use)
- Healthy Youth Survey support & data training
- Educational Advocates (for students at-risk of juvenile justice involvement)
- Student Threat Assessment (for school-based teams to assess, monitor, and support students at-risk for violent behaviors)
- Readiness To Learn early intervention staffing cooperative (via Title 1/LAP funding, for at-risk students experiencing non-academic barriers to learning)
- Suicide Prevention & Intervention training & technical assistance to schools
- Signs of Suicide prevention program trainer for school implementation
- Check & Connect (Tier 3 intervention) program trainer for school administrators, coordinators, & mentors
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) training & technical support for school response
- Youth Mental Health First Aid trainer for school staff
- Mental Health in High Schools health curriculum trainer for school teachers and/or school counselors
- Improvement Science
Currently Funded Programs
- CPWI SAPISP sites
- Educational Advocate sites
- Highly Capable cooperative
- Calendar of annual HiCap activities
- WaKIDS teacher training
- Readiness To Learn cooperative
- Equity & Measures