With a clinical staff comprised of School Social Workers and School Counselors, students are provided with a strong therapeutic environment, which utilizes both individual and group interaction in an effort to promote the development of positive and effective coping skills. Responsibilities of the clinical staff is to provide case management services, individual and group counseling (as indicated in the student’s IEP), and coordination of communication between the school, sending district, as well as the family and support agencies that the students may be involved with outside of school. Included within the individual and group sessions are activities which promote the development of appropriate social skills. Each clinician assists in the monitoring of the school’s Problem Solving Room, an out-of-class “time out” space where students who are experiencing difficulties can be given the opportunity to regain self-control, explore more appropriate and productive responses to stress, increased anxiety and anger in an attempt to rejoin their classes and participate in the educational process.
