What is School Resource Navigation?

A child’s ability to learn is affected by social, emotional, health, and economic factors outside of the classroom.  To ensure student success, the district established the School Resource Navigator. The Resource Navigator’s priority is to assist and support in eliminating barriers that are affecting student learning by linking families to existing resources and supports within the community.

The Resource Navigator plays an essential role in supporting youth success by performing a variety of health and social services care coordinator responsibilities, and connecting youth and families with various academic, medical, dental, social/emotional and other support service needs. The overall function of the Resource Navigator is to maintain the youth’s enrollment in school while making progress toward successful graduation. It also includes providing resources to support the overall health and well- being of the youth and their family.

Things I Help with as a School Resource Navigator

• Assess and link students and/or family members to health services such as a medical or dental clinics, mental/behavioral health services or other services designed to meet specific social/emotional, academic or health needs.

• Connect the youth to community-based programs such as in-home family support programs, group support, public health programs, housing, household resources, employment, etc.

• Refer students/families to community resources including but not limited to: Food, housing, rental assistance, utility assistance, heat, electricity, clothing, school supplies

• Arrange for appointments and transportation for a student and/or family members to medical, dental and mental health appointments.

• Coordinate and participate in multidisciplinary meetings for the youth and/or family.

• Collaborate with school district personnel to establish strategies that will support the success of the youth’s graduation.

• Facilitate communication among school sites, community resources, and caregivers.

• Provide behavioral health intervention services. (i.e. communication, coping, healthy relationships, etc.)

• Provide youth with identifying their current risk factors and how they are impeding their ability to successfully graduate.

• Support the development of measurable self-attainment goals established by the youth.

Confidentiality

When a student or family meets with the School Resource Navigator, everything is kept confidential between the student/family and the School.

This confidentiality may be broken if the student discloses:

• Suicidal thoughts

• Plans to seriously harm themself or others

• There was a recent and/or severe incident in which they harmed themself

• They have been or currently are being abused

Breaking confidentiality may include a call home, to DHS, or to Mobile Crisis Outreach. It is out of concern for them and keeping them safe. We may also disclose information to others when the student or family gives us permission.

Thank you to Tipton's SEBH Department's website, for being the inspiration to create our own resource website.