Below are progress updates on Goal 4 of the 2022-2027 Strategic Plan
March 6, 2023 • Strategy 4 Update
The Strategy 4 committee has 48 individuals that have met three times to focus on the goals of the Mental Health & Wellness Supports. The large group committee established that this group will work towards the final recommendations with group consensus, with three subcommittees focused on the actual tasks at hand. The Staffing Ratios subcommittee is focused on collecting data from the district, area districts, similar sized districts, with the inclusion of state and national recommendations for school counselors, social workers, and school psychologists. The Mental Health Resources and Supports subcommittee is focused on learning about local resources, mental health supports, providers, and services available in the community and surrounding areas for district and parent use. The State of Mental Health Supports, Services, and Curriculum subcommittee is working on defining the current state of mental health supports through the lens of curriculum, education, school supports and services for students and staff in the district. The committee is working on applying information and data through a tiered model of mental health services and supports that will be inclusive of curriculum, services, support services onsite, and resources. The tiered model will provide a breakdown by elementary, middle and high school levels. All of the committees are actively collecting information, creating frameworks for putting information together and sharing out as a whole group for input, questions, clarification, and communication.
November 28, 2022 • Strategy 4 Update
Strategy 4 convened for the first meeting with robust attendance as 30 individuals reviewed the Strategic Plan for 2022-2027. Following a brief overview of the six subcommittees, the committee dissected Strategy 4-Student and Staff Mental Health & Wellness Supports through reviewing the Belief Statement, Goal, Action Steps, and Accountability/Success measures. The committee split into smaller groups for discussion of the Year 1 goals of establishing a Mental Health Committee to collect, review and submit a report on the current ratios of staff who provide mental health supports in comparison to state and national staffing standards, identify potential supplemental mental health support and support providers for students and staff, create a report on current social emotional curriculum being used in the district and methods for evaluating stakeholder satisfaction in the area of mental health.