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The Connecting School Mental Health with Juvenile Justice and Dropout Prevention (JJDOP) Practice Group, in collaboration with the Center for School Mental Health and the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, invites you to join a free webinar – "The School Responder Model: Tools to Prevent Suspension and Arrests of Students with Behavioral Health Needs".
Thursday, September 14, 2017 3:00-4:00 pm Eastern Dial: 1-800-832-0736 Access code: 7331009 |
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| This presentation will feature practical tools and guidance on how to establish a School Responder Model (SRM), a school-based strategy to identify and address student behavioral health needs in place of suspending and/or arresting these students. Developed by four geographically diverse teams of state and local stakeholders that recently developed and implemented SRMs, these resources are freely available, easy to access, and provide concrete supports to develop an SRM in any community. The webinar will focus on the tools available to support forming a cross-systems collaborative team, engaging families and youth, implementing a behavioral health response, and solidifying the SRM process into formal structures. Tools include sample consent forms, information on behavioral health screening instruments, maps that align the many competing initiatives that may be in place, and many other resources that can help you jump start development of your own SRM.
This webinar is relevant to a wide range of stakeholder groups, including administrators, researchers, policymakers, advocates, providers, and local and state agency staff. See below for call in information as well as for more information about the webinar and the presenters.
Presenter: Jacqui Greene, Program Area Director at Policy Research Associates (PRA) and a Co-facilitator of the JJDOP Practice Group.
Ms. Greene’s work largely focuses on breaking the school-to-prison pipeline for youth with behavioral health needs. She provides technical assistance to a range of state and local partners to support efforts to identify and address behavioral health needs that may result in school infractions, with an emphasis on providing youth the community-based services and supports they need to be successful in school and remain outside the justice system. Her work also includes supporting child welfare system improvement efforts and addressing the needs of homeless youth. Prior to joining PRA, Ms. Greene served in the Executive branch of New York State government, first as the legislative counsel to the Office of Children and Family Services and then as the Director of Juvenile Justice Policy at the Division of Criminal Justice Services where she also served as the Executive Director of the Governor’s Commission on Youth, Public Safety, and Justice. She began her career running a legal services project out of shelters for runaway and homeless youth in Newark and Atlantic City, New Jersey and has also been an attorney for children in Family Court.
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