Student Assistance Program
Student Assistance Program
The Student Assistance program addresses non-academic barriers to learning by providing mental health and substance use prevention and intervention counseling support services.
Mission
Through a strength-based, trauma-informed lens, we provide services that positively impact the learning and well-being of children and youth within our schools and communities.
Vision
Children and youth are successful contributing members to their school/community.
Goals
- Help students overcome challenges like mental health issues, substance use, and personal problems that interfere with learning.
- Promote mental wellness by providing resources and counseling to support students’ emotional well-being.
- Offer prevention education and intervention services to reduce substance use among students.
- Create a school environment where students feel safe, supported, and valued.
- Enhance resilience by building students' coping skills to manage personal and social challenges effectively.
About the Education Advocate Program
Youth offenders re-entering the community face a number of systems level and individual barriers that place them at-risk of failing during the re-entry process. To effectively address these obstacles the Education Advocate program is designed to increase the success of youth released from both the County Detention Centers and Juvenile Rehabilitation facilities through the implementation of a comprehensive case management model.
Working with Kitsap County detention center partners and local school districts, Education Advocates provide education case management services to youth involved in the juvenile justice system. The Education Advocate main area of focus is in student re-engagement-reentry into their local school and community and assist youth in connecting with school and/or workforce/vocational opportunities.
See our Institutional Education Page for more information
Student Assistance Prevention – Intervention Services Program
The Student Assistance Prevention-Intervention Services Program (SAPISP) is a comprehensive multi-tiered systems of support school-based behavioral health (including mental health and substance use) model. SAPISP aims to promote social, emotional, and behavioral wellbeing. This program places Student Assistance Professionals in schools to provide Tier 1 universal prevention programs, and Tier 2 & 3 interventions and supports for students experiencing mental health or substance use issues.
Student Assistance Professionals
- Facilitates and coordinates building awareness events and student leadership activities to promote positive school climate of mental health and wellbeing and non-use.
- Provides school-based early prevention and intervention behavioral health counseling support and case management for students and their families.
- Assists in referrals to treatment providers.
- Strengthens the transition back to school for students who are returning from a treatment program
School Improvement Benefits
- Promote the skills and teach coping strategies to related to anxiety and depression and other behavior health issues.Â
- Promote the skills and attitudes resist pressures to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs
- Encourage students to reduce the substance use for which they were referred
- Remove barriers to school success
- Increase student attendance and commitment to school
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