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What we do
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Provide services related to students’ social, emotional and life adjustment to school and/or society. Provides staff with essential information to better understand factors (cultural, societal, economic, familial, health, etc.) affecting a student’s performance and behavior.
Responsibilities:
MAPPS Counselors
Mental Health Counselors
Social WorkersSchool Social Workers are the link between school and the community in providing services to students, families and school personnel to promote and support students’ academic and social success. Please contact our district social worker to support your child’s needs: Yvette Jeffries (Yvette.Jeffries@ocsdsc.org or 803-496-3288).
- McKinney-Vento Act (Homeless Supportive Services): Support students who have lost housing and are now living in a shelter, motel, vehicle, camping ground, or temporary trailer; on the street; doubled-up with family or friends; or in another type of temporary or inadequate housing.
The form below should be completed by the parent:
- Student Residency Statement form
- Foster Care Liaison (Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA): Assist with the educational
transition of students in foster care that serve the best interest of the child. (Please see the best interest determination attached)
- Truancy and Social work: Students between the ages of 6-17 who has accumulated unexcused absences on three (3) consecutive days or has accumulated a total of five (5) or more unexcused absences during the academic year (SC Board of Education).
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All You Have Is All You Need
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Parents, All You Have Is All You Need! (Full Session)
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Let's Talk About It
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Let's Talk About It: Healthy Talk in Trying Times (Full Session)
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Who Do YOU Think You Are?
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Who do YOU think you are? (Full Session)
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Because I'm Happy
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Because I'm Happy! (Full Session)
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Present Overcomers Become Future Champions — For Students
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Answer the C.A.L.L.: Present Overcomers to Future Champions! (Full Session)
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Recharge: Motivating the Motivators (Full Session for Teachers)
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Tracking Trauma In The Classroom
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Tracking Trauma in the Classroom (Full Session)
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The Empty Chair: Managing Grief and Loss (Full Session)
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Emotional Distress to Emotional Success
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Emotional Distress to Emotional Success (Full Session)
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Mental Health First Aid
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Mental Health First Aid (Full Session)
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Positive Coping Strategies
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Positive Coping Strategies (Full Session)
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Opening Promises vs. Closing Doors
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Opening Promises Vs Closing Doors (Full Session)
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Leading From the Inside Out — For Students
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Leading from the Inside Out (Full Session)
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Managing Anxiety in the Classroom (Full Session)
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Be the Dream Girls
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Students, Don't Limit Your Success
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You Matter
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I Smile