Natalie Cervantes, LMSW

"SEL ( Social Emotional Learning) is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions. 

-CASEL website

• Counseling (individual, group, crisis)

• Conduct monthly SEL lessons for grade K-4

• Assisting in developing positive behavioral intervention strategies

• Mobilizing family, school, and community resources to enable academic success

• Assessing students mental health

• Participating in special education assessment meetings as well as individual Educational Planning Meetings

• Consult with teachers and/or parents on a plan of action

• Connect families to community resources (food pantries, parental support, ect.)

• Assist families in locating mental health providers

• Working with parents to facilitate their support in their children's school adjustment

• Providing staff with essential information to  better understand factors (cultural, societal, economic, familial, health, etc.) affecting a student’s performance and behavior

• Preparing a social or developmental history