Charles County Public Schools Department of Student Services

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Charles County Public SchoolsDepartment of
Student Services
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Student Services
Interagency Liaison HSP(LMB)
Grant Acquisition/ Administration
School Psychologists
Pupil Personnel Workers
School Counselors
School Nurses
Student Data Accounting
Juvenile Resource Officers
School Safety and Security
Safe and Drug-Free Schools
Hearing Officers
Student Transfers And Special Exceptions Office
PBIS
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Psychological Services
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Credentials

• Entry Level
• 3 year Graduate Level Program
• Masters/Advanced Graduate Specialist Level
• Minimum of 60 Graduate Credits
• Minimum of 1,200 hour internship in a school
  setting

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Current Staff

• 30 School Psychologists
• All certified by MSDE
• 5 have Doctoral Degrees
• 3 additional in progress
• 19 are Nationally Certified School Psychologists

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Current Assignments

• 9 assigned exclusively to therapeutic programs
• A full-time psychologist assigned to the Stethem
  Center
• A full-time Positive Behavioral Interventions and
  Supports (PBIS) Coordinator
• A full-time Supervisor
• 18 assigned to 34 schools

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Ratio of Psychologists to Students
National Association of School Psychologists
recommends a ratio of one school psychologist per
1,000 students
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Roles

• Consultation
• Prevention
• Crisis Response
• Assessment
• Intervention
• Training/In-service

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School Psychologists Activities2006 - 2007
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Involvement in School Teams

• Student Support Team (SST)
• 504 Team
• Individualized Education Program (IEP)
• PBIS (serve as coaches)
• Crisis Response Team
• School Improvement Team

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Safe Schools

• Psychologists have received training by
• National Association of School Psychologists
  (NASP)
• Maryland School Psychologists Association (MSPA)
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• International Critical Incident Stress Foundation
  (ICISF)
• Supervising School Psychologist on an MSPA
  sub-committee writing a statewide Crisis Response
  Manual for School Psychologists

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Suicide Prevention

• Mandatory annual staff in-service
• Psychologists play the key role in assessing risk
  of suicide
• More than 40 risk assessments have been conducted
  by school psychologists thus far this year

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Yearly Suicide/Risk Assessments
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Violent Risk Assessments

• All school psychologists trained annually on
  protocols for Violence Risk Assessments
• New administrators recently in-serviced
• Incidents typically involve Juvenile Intervention
  Officers as well as the School Administrators

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• School Psychologists use their training in both
  education and psychology to help students
  succeed academically, socially, and
  emotionally.
• Through collaboration with educators and
  parents they help create a safe and supportive
  learning environment and strengthen connections
  between home and school.