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.

 

Behavioral Health Brchure 2010

Behavioral Health Emergency Forms

• Behavioral Health Emergency - Summary of Procedure
• Description of Forms 
• Behavioral Health Emergency Form
• Follow-up letter to Parents
• Counselor Emergency Report
• Report of Parent Emergency Conference