MTSS: IHS Tier 1/2/3

Why try is a strength-based approach to helping youth to overcome their challenges and to improve truancy, behavior, and academics.

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.

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.

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 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.

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!

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.

Skillstreaming employs a four-part training approach—modeling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalization—to teach essential prosocial skills to children and adolescents.

The Matrix Model provides a framework for engaging stimulant abusers in treatment and helping them achieve abstinence.

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.