Psychological Services

Provides consultation and direct services to students, which may include individual or group counseling, direct instruction in emotional regulation skills, whole-class lessons, and progress monitoring as part of MTSS. Provide psychological evaluations for students receiving special education services or referred for evaluation to help determine eligibility status. Consultation is also provided to school staff and parents regarding adjustment concerns, crisis intervention, and social emotional and mental health issues.

Personnel

• There are no changes other than annual contractual salary adjustments.

Services, Supplies, Other and Capital

• There are no changes other than reallocation among accounts

FY20 Objectives

• Develop and disseminate best practices in school psychology to support the work of excellence and equity.

• Greater involvement in school-based interventions, that are proactive and preventative in nature to enhance the wellbeing of students.

• Work with special education teams, collaborating in both program decisions and recommended support services.

FY21 Objectives

• Provide ongoing training and supervision to support student assessment services and ensure currency in practice.

• Develop guiding questions to share with special education eligibility teams to help minimize disproportionate identification of culturally,

linguistically, and racially diverse students within certain disability categories.

• Continue partnerships with graduate school psychology programs to develop interns working within the schools.

• Continued focus on early identification and response to escalating learning, emotional, and behavioral concerns and increased

collaboration with students, families and outside providers to meet student needs in the school setting.

FY19 Accomplishments

• Provided support as required to student teams in school settings as well as collaboration with outside providers as needed for student

monitoring.

• Provided and completed full-time internships for graduate students in school psychology. 

FY20 Accomplishments

• Piloted Social Emotional Learning (SEL) screenings and interventions in three elementary schools.

• Continued to provide clinical consultation and training to ensure the currency of staff service delivery models and methods.

• Continued working collaboratively to review special education eligibility criteria and establish guidelines for best practices in assessment

and service provision.