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Student Support is one of many departments within ESD 105.

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It can be broken up into six general areas

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that all involve some level of crossover
between programs, supports, and services.

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The Student Support department oversees student
support-related resources throughout the region.

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That's everything from school counselors and school social workers

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to supporting licensed treatment that we provide
in school districts for mental health and substance abuse.

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We're really oftentimes looking for the students
who are the farthest from resources,

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the farthest from justice, the most historically underrepresented,

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and seeking ways to support school districts

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and bringing in support staff to be able to

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find those kids and find those families

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and bring them the resources that they need

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with the ultimate goal of their overall success.

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Through an MTSS model,

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we support districts in developing frameworks,

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systems, policies, and procedures

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to help fully integrate support services
for students, staff and families.

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It's really how we design systems within a school

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to align with one another to be able to
provide kids the support they need.

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We believe that MTSS is the pathway
to truly supporting all students

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and seeing the needs and strengths of the whole child.

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It takes all of us working together collaboratively

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and strategically to serve all students.

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We work hard within our department to
break out of siloed work and thinking

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and look for active opportunities to best offer
wraparound comprehensive support to those that we serve.

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Whatever that kid's needs are,

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whether it's mental health, whether it's substance use,

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whether it's criminal justice involvement,

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whether it's just basic social emotional 
needs that they have as an individual,

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or even if it's just general Tier 1 supports into districts that

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reaches and impacts every kid and gives
them the training and tools that they need.

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It's really exciting and cool to see how
it all begins to blend together.

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In the Student Support department, we believe firmly in the importance
of ongoing learning in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion.

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We are training social workers to

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essentially grow our own in our community.

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And ESD's responsibility and role in that will be,

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in turn, taking those MSW, or Masters in Social Work, interns

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and placing them in school settings for their internship.

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We really want to focus on

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traditionally underrepresented individuals entering that program.

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Look around at professionals in our valley.

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It often times doesn't reflect our valley.

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And so even in our school systems,
we really think it's important that kids look around

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and see adults in the workforce who
are serving them who look like them,

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who come from similar cultural backgrounds that they have.

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We've developed and grown in Student Support over the last few years.

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It's really important that even our workforce here
within our department at the agency

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is also diverse and reflects our community.

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And so we're hopeful as years go on,
there's more interns and more people getting trained

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that we will continue to see an increase
in the diversity and inclusion in our workforces.

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