Social-Emotional Learning & Student Wellness
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The Behavior and Mental Health Support Systems division of Goose Creek CISD operates within the Social-Emotional Learning and Student Wellness Department. This team includes seven Student Wellness Interventionists, each assigned to a high school and its feeder junior school.

 

Student Wellness Interventionists provide specialized casework services to help students overcome personal, emotional, and social challenges that may affect their school adjustment and overall educational experience.

 

These professionals are graduate-level school social workers and counselors trained in school system operations, student learning, and the impact of behavior and mental health on academic success. 

Their areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, education law, curriculum and instruction, classroom and behavior management, individual and group counseling, learning disabilities, school safety and crisis response, effective discipline, cultural competence, and collaboration with educators, families, and community providers.

 

As part of the educational team, Student Wellness Interventionists develop strategies and interventions to improve students’ academic, social, and behavioral performance. By working closely with families and the community, they help remove barriers to success, ensuring students reach their full potential and actively participate in all educational programs.

As a member of the educational team, GCCISD Student Wellness Interventionists work collaboratively with members of the educational team to promote and support students' academic and social/emotional well-being through:
  1. Consultation
  2. Prevention/Intervention Strategies
  3. Crisis Intervention and Behavior Support through School-Based Counseling Sessions
  4. Conduct Social/Academic Instructional Groups and Individual Counseling sessions to enhance social development of students and provide peer support in accepting responsibility for their actions, overcoming crisis, trauma/grief, resolving conflict, improving attendance, decision-making skills, etc.
  5. Provide 6-9 weeks of documented intervention services utilizing evidenced based school counseling practices
  6. Support students transitioning from DAEP and residential placement
  7. Perform casework service with parents to increase the parents’ understanding, their constructive participation regarding their children’s academic performance, behavior, and basic needs, and their knowledge and use of available and appropriate resources
  8. Identification, development and coordination of resources/services
  9. Provide school staff and parents with community resources; coordinate and integrate school and community resources 10. School-Community
  10. Liaison
  11. Facilitate communication between school personnel and students, parents, and the community
  12. Provide workshops, and trainings to schools, parents and the community
  13. Serve on Crisis Response Team
Junior
Campus
Student Wellness Interventionist
Phone Number
Baytown & EF Green Junior School
LaShonda Sloan
281-420-4560
Cedar Bayou & Gentry Junior School
Carla Compton
281-420-4570
Highlands & Horace Mann Junior School
Crystal English
281-420-4695
High School
Campus
Student Wellness Interventionist
Phone Number
Goose Creek Memorial High School
Larneka Lavalais
281-421-4400
IMPACT Early College High School
LaPorche Gillum
281-420-4802
Robert E. Lee High School
Melinda Crawford
281-420-4535
Ross S. Sterling High School
Diane Slack
281-420-4500
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The philosophy of the Goose Creek CISD Social-Emotional & Student Wellness Department is to provide a comprehensive school counseling program that promotes and enhances student success.  Approximately one in five school-aged youth experiences impairments in life functioning, including impacts on academic achievement, due to behavioral health issues/mental illness.

 

Outside of the student’s home, schools are the most likely place where mental health concerns will be detected. Fortunately, the earlier mental health concerns are detected and addressed, the more likely a student is to avoid the onset and/or progression of mental illness.

 

Texas school districts provide services to improve students' mental, emotional, and social health. These services include a wide range of trauma-informed behavioral and mental health prevention and intervention programs.

 

Because a significant portion of a child’s time is spent at school, schools provide a “captive” audience for the initiation of these interventions. Organizational assessment and consultation skills of counselors, social workers, and psychologists contribute to the health of students and the health of the school environment.
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