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We partner with Heritage University

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to develop and support pathways for masters-level students

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to become school social workers and mental health counselors.

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We received a Department of Education grant

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that allowed us to partner with Heritage University.

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Heritage University is building a Masters of Social Work program

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and in partnership, we will be placing all of their interns

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for a school-based social work internship program.

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Grow Your Own is an approach adopted by many educators
facing a shortage of teachers and/or providers.

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That's what we've been lacking

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and that's why it's so hard to maintain our
behavioral health workforce, right?

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Because if we don't have education accessible to people

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and we don't have internship opportunities available to people

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and we expect that people are not employed
while they're accessing internships

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or they don't have access to paid internships or things like that,

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it creates barriers to people actually being able to

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pursue the education that they want

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and grow into the profession that they want.

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Schools will have social workers and mental health
providers as a part of their integrated teams

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who identify and address both educational and
social-emotional barriers to successful school outcomes.

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I think the importance here will be making sure
that all our social workers, mental health clinicians,

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have a good, not just a foundation, but a deep understanding
of what early childhood development looks like

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and how early adversity or different situations
might interrupt that typical development,

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you know, and what we can do around that.

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Again, it's that idea of like, you know, what am I looking at?

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Like what do I see right here?

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You know, and so we can stay curious, we can stay compassionate,
but we have, you know, science to back us up.

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We have years of research and understanding
now to back up. This is what I'm seeing.

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ESD 105 also holds a certificate from the
Washington State Department of Health

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licensing them as a behavioral health agency.

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This certification allows Together 105 to bill insurance
companies for clinical services provided to students

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and ensures the sustainability of these services
past any grant funding timelines.

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Because we're a licensed behavioral health agency as well,

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we have access to accredited training programs.

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So they are going to walk away with quite a few
certificates that they can put in their portfolio.

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The Yakima G.Y.O. Consortium Triad is focused on increasing access
to behavioral health services by addressing barriers

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to higher education and practicum requirements.

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The outcome will be more than just an increase
in local mental health providers.

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The behavioral health internship program strives
to support the continued efforts

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to integrate the MTSS model into each learning
environment to increase equity for every student.

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Part of the work is like, as we bring in interns and
different folks into school systems,

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how are we helping them understand the systems they're stepping into?

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Especially in the behavioral health world,

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we have folks who have worked heavily in behavioral health
who do not understand school systems.

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And if they don't understand school systems,
we can't properly provide integrated services.

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So working with staff at schools to understand
what's their system look like,

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and then how does our staff integrate into that system.

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And that includes our intern program.

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So part of the intern program is us going out and listening to teams
and understanding what system do they have in place

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and what would they hope from a school social work intern.

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And then us coming back and strategically thinking through

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the requirements of the internship program,

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and then how we're actually going to properly
place students based off of their desires too.

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We have students who have desires,

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things they want to learn and do in the schools,

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and we want to properly match them to schools
that are also looking for the same thing.

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These two programs have the potential to place over 50 student interns

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into the local primary and secondary schools each year.

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Local educational agencies have identified the gaps in their abilities to
provide mental health services for their families in need.

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They have committed to supporting the development of
future social workers and mental health professionals

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by becoming placement agencies for student practicums,

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with the goal of hiring individual post-graduation.

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Not only do we want to grow our workforce,
but we also want to grow a workforce

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where students can relate to the people that they're seeing.

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A student wants to be able to

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look at a practitioner and say like, oh, they look like me.

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I can do that in my future.

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And also be able to open up and be more
comfortable and clear with them.

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So it's really this great idea of how we're
growing our own in our own community.

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Heritage University empowers a multi-cultural and inclusive
student body to overcome the social, cultural, economic

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and geographic barriers that limit access to higher education.

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HU's multi-cultural student community is
11% Native American and 73% Hispanic.

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85% of Heritage students are first-time college attenders.

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That's really cool.

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ESD 105's commitment to equitable educational experience

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focuses on supportive solutions for students,

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families and communities.

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ESD will leverage their strong working relationships with the LEAs
in their region to ensure successful experiences

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for both the practicum student and the host school.

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In addition, they will provide the clinical supervision required

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for graduate students working on their practicum hours.

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When we offer all of this training and support within our own
communities, we're able to let people access education

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and let people access the supervision and support that they need

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to actually develop as professionals in their communities.

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What we wind up seeing if we don't do that is

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people staying in our communities for a little while,

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while they go to school or do an internship, and then leaving.

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This model helps us build a workforce

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that is more invested in staying in our communities
because they are from our communities

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and we've made that accessible to them to
become professionals right here.

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So, other things I'm really excited about.

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