C.A.R.E. Team
Caring Adult Responding Everyday
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The purpose of the CARE team is to increase student achievement by providing support to parents, staff, and students by linking communities, schools, and families with necessary resources centered around cultural responsiveness, social emotional wellness, and student contact with a caring adult. As the Mental Health and Wellness Facilitator, you will be the lead for this team.
Role:
Cultural Responsiveness
Promoting student voice
Personal Health and Wellness
academic concerns
social emotional concerns
Second-Step/PBIS
align community resources
Develop and implement PD
Contact with a Caring Adult
attendance protocols
monitor attendance: staff and students
school-level mentors
Staff Wellness
Personal Health and Wellness
CARE Cart/Staff appreciation
You will create a calendar of meetings for the CARE team at the beginning of the year, and add these dates to the team calendar in the shared MHWF folder. Level 1 Responses require a once monthly meeting, Level 2 require biweekly meetings, Level 3 require weekly meetings, Level 4 Responses require twice a week meetings, and a school in crisis mode will need to meet daily. These response levels will be determined by the school principal and/or district personnel.
Facilitator Duties and Responsibilities
Determine meeting location, time, and attendees
Develop an agenda
Guide the group through the agenda
Ensure equal speaking opportunities
Maintain a positive, safe environment
Assign other meeting roles
Communicate conclusions and next steps
Assign responsibilities and action items
Set the next meeting date
C.A.R.E. Team and Attendance
CARE Team will create guardrails, and support schools in attendance expectations, support structures/systems, incentives/interventions, and shared accountability expectations for all stakeholders (parents, students, and staff).
CARE team will meet regularly to review attendance data, systems, and needs.
CARE team will track, analyze, and support school attendance needs
CARE team is responsible for:
Reviewing student attendance
Reduce tardiness and early checkouts
Supporting students with 5 or more unexcused absences or 10 or more check in/out
Developing school-wide incentive and intervention program
School teams will develop SMART goal(s) with key school members and administration.
C.A.R.E. Team and HenryCares Check-In
The HenryCares Check-In is completed twice a year for students in grades 3-12. Data from these check-ins allow us to see which student don't feel they have a caring adult in the building, a caring adult outside of school, or a friend. Students that don't have a strong sense of belonging can be damaging to student's self-esteem. The CARE team is tasked with looking at the data from each administration of the check-in to identify students that have less than 2 supportive relationships, and make contact with them.
In addition, the CARE team must prioritize going through the data to identify statements that students may make in the open-ended responses that may show that they need support. Students may make statements about self-harm or suicidal ideation in these comments that must be addressed as quickly as possible.
Presentation to Share with School Staff
Sample Agenda
CARE Team
Quick Guide
Attendance Contract
CARE Team Manual
Effectively Using Data to Support Your C.A.R.E. Team
Reports to Support C.A.R.E. Teams
Report Purpose
Teachers Taking Attendance
This report will display All sections that a school offers that requires Attendance to be taken and the Total Number of sections that have and have not taken attendance. The report will also display an attendance percentage. The data is reflective of Primary Teachers only.
IC PATH: Henry Custom Reports > Attendance > Teachers Taking Attendance
Chronically Absent
Chart of percent of all students (active/Inactive) in current school year, by grade, who meet the definition of Chronically Absent. Chronically Absent is defined as a student who is absent (excused or unexcused) more than 10% of enrolled school days. Drill down for student list of students in the selected grade with percent present less than 90%.
HI PATH: Attendance Dashboard > Chronically Absent Students > Filter
Truancy
Chart of distinct count of active students in current school year, by grade, who have an unexcused absences for 5 or more days. Drill down for student list for selected grade by school. (Updated student attendance protocol procedures)
HI PATH: Attendance Dashboard > Truancy – 5 or more Unexcused Absences > Filter
Attendance Letter Summary
To view a summary of unexcused absences and dates letters were generated.
IC Path: Henry Custom Reports -> Attendance -> Attendance Letter Summary Log
Behavior (Spotlight)
The main who/what/when/where/why behavior reports of student incidents.
IC Path: Spotlight
Data Links
Henry Insights
https://henryinsights.henry.k12.ga.us/Dashboard
Training for Henry Insights
Infinite Campus
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