Who Are School Social Workers?
School social workers support all students specifically in areas of social-emotional learning and mental health needs, and are uniquely trained to integrate the school, community, and family context into interventions and resource referrals. School social work interventions reduce barriers to learning enabling students to be physically, mentally, and emotionally present and ready to learn in the classrooms.
What Services Do School Social Workers Provide?
The school social worker performs professional work related to providing supportive services from a school social work perspective to students. It includes establishing home, community, and school linkages, supporting behavioral, social and emotional needs of students, providing counseling for students, consulting with teaching and administrative staff and reducing barriers that may prevent students from graduating. School social workers reduce or eliminate barriers to student achievement by targeting four major areas of focus via the social work service delivery model. The areas of focus include Assessment, Dropout Prevention, McKinney-Vento Services, and Crisis Intervention.
Assessments: Complete assessments include McKinney Vento assessments, suicide risk assessments, social histories, and other student assessments.
Dropout prevention services: Attendance monitoring, truancy interventions, referrals to community agencies, and basic social work services.
McKinney Vento services: Provide critical support services, such as community referrals, to McKinney Vento (homeless) students and their families.
Crisis intervention services: Assist and support students and their families in addressing traumatic or significant life events that impact student functioning and progress at school.
Contact Your School Social Worker
Lilly Weber
School Social Worker
980-343-6944
Email: lilly1.weber@cms.k12.nc.us