Screenshot (34).png School Social Workers are trained mental health professionals who facilitate activities and interventions that increase students’ availability to learn and provide them a connection to their school environment. School Social Workers provide direct service to students and families for immediate and emergency needs, offer services to support the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act such as attending intervention meetings, preparing sociocultural assessments, attending eligibility meetings, providing IEP counseling, and participate in the drafting of Functional Behavioral Assessments and Behaviors Intervention Plans. School Social Workers also provide Tier II and Tier III interventions such as individual counseling, small group counseling, and assist with interventions for students with chronic attendance concerns. School Social Workers work with school staff to provide crisis interventions, suicide assessments, threat assessments, re-entry meetings following a crisis, participate in Best Interest Determination meetings for students in foster care, and Child Protective Services referrals. School Social Workers also partner with outside agencies for families that have multiple needs, often through a referral to Comprehensive Child Study.