IHS Interventions
Tier 1 supports are supports that every student receives which include: Access to a full counseling staff, school wide acknowledgment for positive behavior, and school wide lessons promoting Social Emotional Learning.
Intervention Team
Marcus Weaver (Interventionist)
Marcus provides Record Reviews, confers with school counselors, and Tier 2 team to problem solve regarding student behavior, attendance, and grades. Provides expertise on Tier 2 interventions and facilitates Group or Individual Interventions for students.
Yvette Cook
(Substance Abuse Specialist)
As the Substance Abuse Specialist at IHS, Yvette works with students who struggle with Substance abuse. Yvette assess student's substance severity, handles student inquires for support, facilitates Evidence Based Interventions, and collects data to track student progress.
Angelica Barajas
(Social Worker)
(Social Worker)
Angelica Coordinates services between Tier 2 and Tier 3 for Seriously Emotionally Disturbed (SED) students or to other students identified as emotionally at risk. Angelica participates in intake process for evaluation of problems and development of support plans. Angelica performs casework services with students/ families through individual, group, and family therapy. Angelica provides consultation to families, schools, various social agencies.
Traci Tipton
(Intervention Counselor)
(Intervention Counselor)
Traci gathers information from the student’s teachers and coordinates SSTs. Traci provides counselor insight to help all students in the areas of academic achievement, career and social/emotional development, ensuring today’s students receive the proper services.
Tom Olejnik
(On Campus Intervention)
(On Campus Intervention)
On Campus Intervention (OCI) is designed to be an intervention for students in response to challenging behavior, using an evidence based curriculum and staffed by a credentialed teacher. This intervention strategy is described in education code 48900.5(b) as a “program for teaching prosocial behavior or anger management,” a “restorative justice program,” and a “positive behavior support approach with tiered interventions that occur during the school day on campus” OCI is based on the foundational principles of Restorative Practices and seeks to restore harm by adhering to a Fair Process Model.
Support Groups: Evidence Based Interventions Catalog
These Social Emotional Learning groups take place during class session. However, they are on a rotating period schedule so your student does not miss the same class period more than once each month. The students are also asked to communicate with their teacher before joining group and their period absence is cleared in the attendance office by the Interventionist Mr. Weaver.
Why Try
Why try is a strength-based approach to helping youth to overcome their challenges and to improve truancy, behavior, and academics.
My Journey: Grief
This curriculum is designed to walk students through the stages of grief and celebrate their progress by focusing on feelings, beliefs, stories, changes, balance, connection, and memories.
Forward Thinking
Interactive Journaling is a structured and experiential writing process that motivates and guides youth toward positive life change. This cognitive behavioral curriculum has nine different journals that offer a variety of strategies for group sessions. Titles: Handling Difficult feelings, Relationships and Communication, Responsible Behavior, Etc.
Check in-Check out/ Check and Connect
CICO is standardized monitoring intervention that increases positive adult contact while providing frequent feedback, daily home-school communication, and positive reinforcement contingent on meeting behavioral goals. Check & Connect is a brief phone call to encourage and inform student of helpful information pertaining to Growth Mindset and RISE Matrix.
The C.A.T. Project
The C.A.T. Project is a small group program for adolescents with anxiety. It is cognitive-behavioral in nature, and provides psychoeducation and requires exposure tasks. The program provides education about anxiety, skills for identifying and managing anxiety, and an approach to face one’s fears and develop mastery. The overall goal is emotional adjustment.
Guy's Council
A strengths-based group approach to promote boys’ and young men’s safe and healthy passage through pre-teen and adolescent years. In this structured environment, boys and young men gain the vital opportunity to address masculine definitions and behaviors and build their capacities to find their innate value and create good lives - individually and collectively!
Girl's Circle
A structured support group for girls from 9-18 years which integrates relational theory, resiliency practices, and skills training. Designed to increase positive connection, strengths, and competence in girls. Also offered under the model is Mother-Daughter Circle, for mothers or female caregivers and their daughters.
Skills Streaming
Skillstreaming employs a four-part training approach—modeling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalization—to teach essential prosocial skills to children and adolescents.
Substance Abuse: Matrix Model
The Matrix Model provides a framework for engaging stimulant abusers in treatment and helping them achieve abstinence.
Anger Management Essentials
A guide to supporting students with problem-solving, stress management, and relaxation techniques. Exercises in this Evidence Based Intervention are aimed toward shortening the amount of time it takes to think logically instead of responding with "fight or flight" reactions.