Working collaboratively with several other district divisions, the Student Services Division is a central team in supporting the district's efforts to serve the project’s schools. Representing guidance counselors, attendance, health services, psychological services, social work services, and Multi-Tiered System of Support/Response to Intervention supports, the Student Services Division is well-positioned to provide the strategic wrap-around supports needed at each school to build a healthier and safer school climate that reduces the incidence of violence in each school.

The Student Services Division is working to build its capacity to strategically plan and coordinate efforts on a school by school basis, and to respond in an impactful way when there is a risk or indication of violence surrounding a school. As a part of this work, division staff endeavor to understand how well each of the teams within the division are aligned and coordinated in order to support schools effectively.

Cross & Joftus will support this effort by completing an assessment of services provided by the Student Services Division, reviewing specifically how resources and supports are organized and coordinated to meet school needs, and then will work with the division to realize its vision of collaboration to support schools.