Social Work Services & Referrals
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Mary Mortensen |
Christine Sutton |
School social workers provide counseling support and services to students who are struggling with emotional, behavioral, academic or social issues that may be interfering with their school work or impacting peer and family relationship. Social workers assist students, families, staff and the community with appropriate resources to provide services that will help a student succeed academically.
Current Student Support Group Opportunities:
Please contact a social worker for more information
- Children of Alcoholics (or other drugs): Intended to help the children of alcoholics/addicts who are impacted by parental drug use
- Drug and Alcohol Prevention Education Classes: Offered to students where there is a concern about possible drug/alcohol use and/or for those students who have broken the district rules regarding alcohol and other drugs
- Recovery Support: For students who have an identified substance abuse problem and have made a commitment to recovery
- Coping with Loss: For students who have experienced the death of a parent
- Family Changes: Focuses on issues related to parental separation, divorce, and family dynamics
- Family Stress: Supports students who are concerned and worried about a parent's recent job loss, unemployment, and/or lack of family financial stability
- First Generation College Bound: Support and assist students new to the college experience
- ADDvantage: Support and education for students who have ADD/ADHD
- New Student Support: Offers support to students new to RBHS
- Girls/Guys Discussion: Supports healthy choices and problem solving
| What issues can a social worker help me with? | Who can refer a student to a social worker? |
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Feeling stressed or anxious |
Teachers Parents Friends Counselors Themselves *Any person concerned about a student can make a confidential referral to a social worker |
Counseling services may include but not be limited to:
- Individual and group counseling
- Teaming with counselors and other staff members
- Referral to community services
- Prevention and intervention education
- Assisting in completing a functional behavioral assessment as well as assisting in the development of positive behavioral intervention strategies
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