Supporting the Social/Emotional Needs of Our Students:
An Integrated Approach
Jessica Bucklin & Janelle Buchler
Step 1: Inform Parents
Step 2: Universal Screening
Step 3: Identify Need
Step 4: Additional Screening and/or Low Risk Support
Step 5: Additional Moderate or High Risk Support or Service Referral
MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING AND SUPPORT
Next Steps
Form a team or use a pre-existing team that will meet at least monthly to review Universal Screening Data
As a Team…..
Select the screeners you will use
Decide who will collect & organize the data
Train staff (if needed) and implement screeners
The team reviews data at least monthly and places students into the proper interventions
Step One: A Solid Team
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Step Two:
Inform Parents/Guardians About Screening
Active consent is not required to implement universal screening.
It is always best practice for districts inform parents about any tools they are using to make decisions and how the data will be used.
Step Three:
Universal Screening Process
Grades K-12
Teacher completes SRSS- Team enters in EWI Tracker
Early Warning Indicator (EWI) Reports from PowerSchool
Student or Parent completes the Student Questionnaire
Teachers complete Relationship Mapping- Team enters in EWI Tracker
Students complete the Daily Check-in
School teams use findings from one or more of the universal screeners above in conjunction with other data below to identify students in need of further screening or interventions.
Parent and/or student
self referral
Screening Calendar
Daily Check-in
Helpful Links:
What is it? A universal screener that individual students complete to self-assess their emotional state. The screener helps to identify how students are feeling and provides information to teachers and school staff in order to best support students.
Cost? Free
Who completes or administers it? Each student answers a short series of questions.
Time Required: 3-5 minutes
How often? Daily
Daily Check-in Tool (High Tech)
Daily Check In Tool (Low Tech)
Using Your
Daily Check-In Data
Low Tech Mood Thermometer Data
Student Questionnaire
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What is it? A universal survey tool that identifies student strengths, challenges, hopes, and needs. This tool also identifies adults that a student is connected to both in the school and outside of school.
Cost? Free
Who completes or administers it? Each student completes the survey
Time Required: 10-15 minutes
How often? At the beginning of the school year
Student Questionnaire Electronic Version
Student Questionnaire: Paper Version
Student Questionnaire:Parent Version
Student Risk Screening Scale (SRSS)
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What is it? What is it? A universal screening checklist that is completed by teachers on each student. It identifies students who are at risk for externalizing and internalizing problem behaviors and helps to determine those students who may need more targeted mental health screening. The screener is scored as high risk, medium risk, low risk and is often used in conjunction with early warning indicator (attendance, behavior, and academics) data and/or other universal screeners to identify the need for additional support. This tool allows the opportunity for teachers to provide their voice in a consistent manner for all students. Because implicit bias can be present when administering the SRSS, it is not a stand-alone screener. It is also not a diagnostic tool.
Cost? Free
Who completes or administers it? Teachers complete the screener and assess various risk factors for each student in their classroom to determine who is at-risk for challenging or anti-social behavior
Time Required: 2-3 minutes per student/screening
How often? 3 times/year
Student Risk Screening Scale (SRSS)
Using Early Warning Indicator (EWI’s) Data
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What is it?
EWIs are data points that district and school staff use to determine which students (grade 5-12) are at risk for dropping out of school and how well the school system is supporting students to stay engaged in school. The risk indicators are organized into the ABCs: Attendance, Behavior and Course Performance. Early Warning Indicators are the specific data points used within an Early Warning Intervention and Monitoring System (EWIMS).
Cost? Free, report pulled from PowerSchool and exported into Google Sheets Document
Who completes or administers it? Designated team member from the Tier 2/3 Intervention Team.
Time Required: a maximum of 1 hour for the entire school building
How often? EWI’s are pulled and measured at the first 20 days and at the end of each term
Example of EWI’s Pulled From PowerSchool Custom Report
Early Warning Indicator Tracker
Relationship Mapping
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What is it? A Relationship Map allows adults in a school to have a quick and visual snapshot of students who are well supported and connected as well as those who most need support. Knowing this, adults can then strategize about how to best reach out to students who most need positive and supportive relationships with adults. *Best results when accompanied with the Student Questionnaire or Student Connection Survey
Cost? Free
Who completes or administers it? All School Personnel
Time Required: Depending on the size of your school or grade-level team, it may require only:
How often? At least 1 time a year
Relationship Mapping
A team of individuals….
**It is best practice to implement additional targeted screening or interventions within 72 hours of identification of need.
Step Four:
IDENTIFY STUDENTS WHO NEED ADDITIONAL SCREENING & SUPPORT
should meet at least monthly
review the schools chosen universal screening data to determine which students needs additional support.
Step Two:
Universal Screening Process
Grades K-12
PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT or INTERVENTIONS
(Students who are low risk)
ADMINISTER TARGETED MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING
OR
Step Five:
PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT OR SCREENING
Step Six:
CONNECT WITH ADDITIONAL SUPPORT AND/OR REFER FOR SERVICES
Moderate Risk
High Risk
For external referrals:
Start with local providers (ie Primary Care, FSCA, A Healing Place, etc) & CMH first
Use telehealth and online crisis management as another alternative
Potential Interventions
Low Risk Interventions
2x10 Relationship Building Strategy
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What is it?
Spend 2 minutes per day for 10 days in a row talking with a student about anything she or he wants to talk about. The adult interacts with the student, not about school, but about hopes, dreams, fears, likes, dislikes, family life, work situations, or just about anything that allows a relationship to develop. Because relationships are reciprocal, the adult needs to share about his or her life and invite the student to do the same.
Cost? Free
Who completes or administers it? Any adult in the building
Time Required: a maximum of 2 minutes
How often? 10 days straight and then report back to the team on the success/struggles
What is it? Strategies that teachers can use help de-escalate or regulate behavior. These strategies can be accessed easily and can be self-implemented by students once taught
Cost? Free
Who completes or administers it? Any adult teaches the strategies, the
Time Required: time to teach the strategies to the students and then time for the student to use the strategies
How often? As often as needed in the classroom
Moderate Risk Interventions
Check in/Check out (CICO)
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What is it?
It is a tier 2, group-oriented intervention, designed for students whose problem behaviors are unresponsive to Tier 1 practices and systems and do not require more immediate individualized interventions. First, a student is identified as needing additional behavioral support. Next, behavioral expectations for the student are defined and documented on a Daily Progress Report (DPR). Third, the student begins to receive a regular cycle of prompts and feedback from teachers and family for meeting behavioral expectations. Finally, student data is generated on a daily basis and is used to monitor progress and make decisions about the intervention effects.
Cost? Because CICO is a group-based, standardized intervention, it is an efficient and cost-effective method for providing additional support to a group of students with similar behavioral needs
Who completes or administers it? The CICO Coordinator and the Classroom Teacher
Time Required: Although more time is required from the coordinator, classroom teachers can usually implement the intervention in less than 5-10 minutes per day.
High Risk Interventions
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US
For More Information:
Jessica Bucklin
School Improvement Consultant
(517) 240-1453
jessica.bucklin@jcisd.org
Janelle Buchler
Whole Child Consultant
(517)914-3030
janelle.buchler@jcisd.org
System Data Calendar
Team Overview within a Tiered System of Support
Team focuses on implementation of processes and protocol and reviews systems level data monthly to look for systems concerns. Make adjustments to the system as evidenced by data
Team reviews the EWI’s, SRSS and Teacher Referrals monthly to determine what students need a Schoolwide Intervention & uses the intervention grids and data to determine the “right fit” intervention; monitors implementation of the interventions
Potential School-Wide Interventions:
- CICO or 2x10
- Social Skills Development
- Sensory Breaks
- Re-Focus Center
- Mental Health Support (Mental Health Screener by the CSES or designee- may lead to outside referral, onsite mental health group or individual services)
Problem Solving Team comprised of all stakeholders for that child plus key members of the Tier 2 Team (may include outside agencies; special education etc..);
Team reviews data and interventions for that child based on the recommendation of the School-wide Student Study Team
Systems Review Team
(Tier 1- All Students)
School-wide Intervention Team (Tier 2- Some students)
Individual Student Study (Tier 3; few students)
Potential Data Sources: Implementation data- TFI, Teaching SEL & Behavior Expectations, Acknowledgements
Student Outcome data- EWI’s (academic, behavior, attendance), SRSS, Climate & Culture, DOT, MiPhy
Focus on an Individual plan for the student which may include but is not limited to:
Universal Screening Process
Early Childhood
Teacher completes Ages & Stages Questionnaire (ASQ-SE)
Early Warning Indicator (EWI) Reports
Parent Completes the Student Questionnaire
Teachers completes Relationship Mapping
Students Completes the Daily Check-in
Child Study Team uses EWI Tracker to identify students in need of further screening or interventions based on the entrance and exit criteria for the interventions