Behavioral Health Team
The Behavioral Health Team works with regional offices and field-based staff to ensure that schools have the resources to respond in a timely manner to students experiencing barriers to learning. This team:
- Oversees the Comprehensive Student Assistance Process (CSAP), a K-12, state mandated process to ensure access to educational supports
- Provides comprehensive professional development and technical assistance to improve the District’s capacity to proactively build effective learning environments
- Collaborates with other District offices to provide effective emergency/crisis response
- Collaborates with the City’s child-serving systems to ensure coordination of behavioral health resources for children and families
Social and Emotional Learning
Social emotional learning is a
research-based educational process designed to assist students in
acquiring skills, attitudes and beliefs to help them recognize and
manage their behavior and emotions. This educational process also helps
students improve their decision making ability; students learn to care
about the feelings of others and how their behavior impacts others;
helps students learn to behave ethically and responsibly; and teaches
them how to develop positive relationships and avoid negative
behaviors. The skills learned by staff and students through social
emotional programming help children succeed both socially and
academically.
Prevention and Intervention Services
In addressing the complex needs of our children, the School District of
Philadelphia has partnered with the City of Philadelphia‘s Community
Behavioral Health, The Department of Human Services, and other
organizations to provide a comprehensive continuum of care in our
schools to remove barriers to learning and increase academic success.
These school-linked behavioral health initiatives span from prevention
to early intervention, and finally, to targeted support for students
identified with needs.
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