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Social Emotional Learning and Prevention Teams
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The district's social and emotional learning and prevention services teams work collaboratively with the school, family, and community stakeholders to design and deliver customized student prevention and intervention supports. The primary purpose of this team is to prioritize social and emotional learning, school climate, equity and inclusion, trauma-informed practices, and student empowerment. The primary goal is that all students develop the knowledge, skills, and social and emotional intelligence needed to achieve personal success in continuing education, career, and community.
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School Counselors
Visit our K-12 Counselors page here:
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Social Service Managers
Visit our Social Service Managers page here:
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Behavior Intervention Aides
Behavior Intervention Aides develop positive relationships with school staff and families while monitoring and mentoring at-risk students. Behavior Aides may facilitate in the presentation of social skills, anger management, and conflict resolution to individuals, small groups, and classrooms. Behavior Intervention Aides are critical to modeling social and emotional learning skills and are an integral part of school-wide behavior/intervention programs.
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School Safety Assistants
The school safety assistant’s primary duty is to monitor and maintain discipline among students in and around the school campus. School safety assistants are critical in building a positive school culture and role modeling healthy social and emotional learning skills for students and adults. School safety assistants ensure and maintain the security and safety of building, staff, students, and other personnel to ensure learning environments are safe for everyone.
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Prevention Intervention Specialists
The prevention/intervention specialist assists building level and district administration with implementing K-12 substance abuse, behavior management, and violence prevention/intervention, suicide intervention/prevention programs for the district. Specialists manage the daily operation of the Positive Alternative to School Suspension (PASS) and communicate and assist in supporting the Students Making A Right Turn (SMART) alternative program for suspended and/or expelled students.
Prevention Intervention Specialists conduct and facilitate school-wide K-12 suicide intervention/prevention education activities, collaborate and coordinate student suicide intervention/prevention education opportunities with other district and program staff.
Prevention Intervention Specialists provide training to school staff in areas related to chemical dependency, violence prevention, and social service interventions; assists in planning and organizing professional development opportunities in collaboration with building administration. Prevention Intervention Specialists coordinate the student identification process for intervention programs with school administrators, counselors, social service managers, and other appropriate school-based staff.
Contact Information
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Administrative Center
1st Floor, Suite C
Main #: (907) 452-2000 x11231
Fax: (907) 452-3172Helen Clark
Executive Director of Student Support Services
helen.clark@k12northstar.org
(907) 452-2000 x11470Vanessa Shannon
Director of Social and Emotional Learning & Prevention Services
vanessa.shannon@k12northstar.org
(907) 452-2000, x11451Mallory Haddad
Administrative Secretary
mallory.haddad@k12northstar.org
(907) 452-2000 x11272