The goal of school social work is to support students' social and emotional development using skill-based interventions in order to increase appropriate functional performance specific to the classroom setting. School social workers act as advocates to help children remove barriers to academic achievement, such as mental health challenges, emotional dysregulation, social skill deficits, and behavior. School social workers help students acquire the knowledge, skills, and resources necessary for them to reach their academic potential through: 

• Building wide interventions, lessons and activities

• Whole class SEL lessons 

• Multi-Tiered System of Support services 

• Special Education Services 

• Crisis intervention