Promise Zone Family School Community

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Promise ZoneFamily School Community
Bob Long, Commissioner Onondaga Dept of Mental
Health Jennifer Parmalee, Onondaga Dept of
Mental Health Linda Brown, OCM BOCES

• Syracuse City School District Administrators
  Meeting
• August 20, 2012

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What is Promise Zone?

• NYS Office of Mental Health Grant to 3 Urban
  districts for innovative solutions that result in
  improved student achievement
• Designed to increase community collaboration and
  the districts ability to identify and support
  students with serious emotional challenges

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Syracuse Partners in Success

• Department of Mental Health
• Syracuse City School District
• Say Yes
• Brownell
• Arise
• St. Joes
• OnCare
• Other Community Agencies Syracuse Community
  Health Center, Contact, Hillside, Catholic
  Charities

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Healthy Youth Development

• What does each child need to be successful?

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How does Promise Zone align with Other Important
Work?
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The Syracuse Commitment to its ChildrenAll
Syracuse Children can be Competitive, Successful
and Drive our Communitys Future

• Social Behavior is Central to Academic Success

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All Students can be Successful

• Context Key Challenges the Community Faces
  Students, Families, Schools, Child Welfare,
  Mental Health, Juvenile Justice

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Linking Behavior Academics No HS 2012
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Chronically Absent Through April 2012
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All Students can be Successful cont.

• Core Student Needs 40 Developmental Youth
  Assets Response to Intervention and Positive
  Behavior and Supports
• Initiatives Multi-Tired Systems of Support How
  al l relate to each other Dignity for All
  Students Act

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All Students can be Successful cont.

• Strategies Reflects the specific actions
  underway to address core student needs
• PZ Specific
• Expand Licensed outpatient clinic services in
  schools
• Clinician Integrated into SBIT-B Teams
• Clinicians prioritize school functionality in
  treatment
• Data based decisions for identification and
  intervention
• Support Development of Screening and SBIT-B
  functions
• Family engaged as partners in process

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All Students can be Successful cont.

• Necessary Action Steps What we (district and
  community) still need to do to be successful
• Tangible Short Term Results What initiatives
  hope to achieve in next 12 months results are
  shared
• Long Term Outcomes All initiatives share same
  long terms goals

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Screening Team S-BIT B Progress Report

• Promise Zone
• Department of Mental Health
• Syracuse City School District
• Say Yes
• 2011 - 2012

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Screening Process Tier 2 - Grouped

• Identify Students using standard criteria (3 or
  more ODRs and/or at-risk referral form)
• Review Students(1-2 minutes each)
• Group students according to criteria and
  determine intervention
• Implement and Progress Monitor Intervention
•  Review group intervention data (every 4 weeks)
•  Continue intervention or Phase Out
•  Refer to SBIT Behavior Team with rising
  referrals to 6 or more

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SBIT-Behavior Process Tier 3 - Individualized

• Identify Students using standard criteria (6 or
  more ODRs and/or at risk form)
• Review students (45 minutes each)
• Determine Intervention and Progress Monitor
• Review student data (every 4 weeks)
• Continue intervention or phase out

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Training and Coaching

• Cohort 1 (5 schools)
• Trained November 2011
• Each assigned external coach
• 2 learning collaborative sessions
• Cohort 2 (6 schools)
• Trained March 2012
• Each assigned external coach
• 1 learning collaborative session

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Screening Teams 2011-2012 (group student
planning)

• Total number of students referred
• 133
• Percent that had at least one follow-up meeting
• 35
• (46 students)
• Goal is 100

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S-BIT B Teams 2011-2012 (individual level
planning)

• Total number of students referred
• 18
• Percent that had at least one follow-up meeting
• 100
• (18 students)
• Goal is 100
• Schools inviting parents to SBIT-B Meetings
• 1
• (Goal is 100)

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S-BIT Behavior
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SBIT-B Cohort 1 Goals

• Percentage of goals where students either met or
  exceeded S-BIT B goals or made promising
  progress.
• 90

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Thank You and Great Job!

• Bellevue
• Danforth
• Dr. King
• Delaware
• Frankliln

• Lemoyne
• Meachem
• Porter
• Roberts
• Salem Hyde

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Congratulations to Cohort 3!

• Clary Middle School
• Dr. Weeks
• Expeditionary Learning Middle School
• Hughes
• Seymour

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Next Steps Support, Support, Support

1. Cohorts 1 and 2 hit the ground running
2. Cohort 3 Training in October
3. Learning Collaborative and Coaching
4. Cohort 4 Get Ready for January!

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Preparation for Screening/SBIT-B Start Up

• PBIS Universal team is in place and meets monthly
• Explicit Teaching of Behavioral Expectations in
  place
• Solid Acknowledgement systems are in place and
  supported by 80 of staff in school
• Team reviews behavior data on a monthly basis
• Every classroom has a behavior management plan
• IF you have a clinician, how is it working for
  you (scale of 1-5)

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Tool to Support Preparation

• Tool
• T - Analysis

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We look forward to working with you this
year!Thank you!