MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLS & PBIS Elsa Velez, Ph.D. PBIS Coordinator Charles County Public Schools

 Grant funded by Charles County Public Schools  Director of Student Services  Part of the School Improvement Plan  Main Focus: Counseling services for all middle schools and the Alternative School  Extension of elementary school program  Proposals reviewed

Tri County Youth Services Bureau  Qualified master’s level clinicians  Interventions coordinated with those services provided by guidance counselors and school psychologists  SST and administrators to identify students to be referred  Clinicians usually part of SST and PBIS teams

Five components:  Individual  Peer  Family  School  Community

Program Goals and Objectives:  Reduce disruptive classroom behavior and discipline referrals  Increase parental engagement in school  Provide support to school psychologists to increase classroom management  Improve student academic achievement  Improve attendance

Evaluation  Individual-Beck Youth Inventories TM, Academic Grades, School Attendance, # of referrals and suspensions  Family-Parent Satisfaction Survey & the North Carolina Family Assessment Scale  School-Satisfaction Survey