Specifications include, but are not limited to: A. Clinical Services: · Provide comprehensive clinical services for the District through full-time licensed mental health counselors for students with significant emotional and behavioral problems for students with emotional and behavioral challenges · Comprehensive programming that must demonstrate evidenced based approaches, specialty protocols, and multiple modalities of therapy that includes family therapy, individual therapy, and psychoeducation therapy with a formal quality management oversight component · Provide the following services with properly licensed and certified staff: o Daily group therapy. Group therapy shall include a psycho-educational component geared towards social and life skills curriculum o Weekly individual therapy o Family therapy twice per month (family therapy should be offered during the day and during one evening per week). o Participation four days per week in a study skills module led by a district teacher but one in which vendor staff provides support and assistance o One multi-family therapy session per month o Crisis intervention as needed. · Parents should receive monthly evening psycho-education and support programs along with monthly parent newsletters. · For school avoidant students, use of specialized protocols and staff to make therapeutic home visits and encourage enhanced school attendance. · Meet regularly with school staff to review student progress including but not limited to planning/debriefing meetings · Facilitate a culture that supports and nurtures students with social/emotional challenges. · Provide comprehensive clinical assessments · ODP assessments to identify students eligible to return to their home district B. Related Services: · On-going child study team consultation and if so requested participation in IEP meetings and Section 504 committee meetings. · Provide on-site in-service training for district teaching staff on working with students with emotional and behavioral problems in the public-school classroom. · Conduct intake and evaluation services on newly referred students. · Provide a monthly newsletter to Teaching staff and School Leadership · Provide evidence of Quality Management Services Team that will continuously monitor the academic and clinical progress of students, that collects data on a monthly and quarterly basis, making relevant observations and recommendations in periodic meetings with the district’s administrative and school leadership. · Provide the district with curriculums for both group therapy and learning strategies periods that can be considered for student credit. · Provide clinical service documentation for each student in a comprehensive medical record, in accordance with appropriate professional standards. Each record will include at a minimum weekly progress notes of services provided, the names of students receiving the services, date, time and location of services provides and names of the professional staff providing the service, all as applicable, within the context of a detailed clinical treatment plan · Provide detailed service reports for IEP’s and SEMI billing. · Provide a comprehensive quality management program that will monitor the clinical programming and related medical documentation to help ensure that all of the work is consistent with the school IEP standards and FERPA compliance · Provide quarterly objective data measuring changes in grades, disciplinary incidents and attendance for participating students, along with out-of-district placement retention data. · Provide evidence of comprehensive developmentally specific evidence based clinical protocols for treatment, student management, crisis intervention and substance abuse for students enrolled in the program. · Provide a level/reward system for students that is developmentally specific to student population. · Provide weekly discussion with school leadership and child study team members reviewing the status and progress of each student. · Provide monthly meetings with school leadership. · Provide periodic meetings with the Director of the Office of Special Services and the District Special Services Coordinator, Superintendent and Business Administrator · Ability to provide expert testimony with documentation for medication and due process hearings · Provide lunch monitoring duties for students in the program · Provide year-round in-service training to staff.
