Mt. Diablo Unified School District

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Mt. Diablo Unified School District Coordinated
Care Teams
Presented by James C. Wogan, LCSW Administrator,
School Linked Services [phone] woganj_at_mdus
d.k12.ca.us www.mdusd.k12.ca.us/careteam
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Mt. Diablo Unified School District Coordinated
Care Teams
To ensure that every child succeeds, school
staff, students, families, and community agencies
work together to increase the number of students
who arrive each day ready and able to learn.
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Mt. Diablo Unified School District Coordinated
Care Teams
The first MDUSD Coordinated Care Team was
established in at Mt. Diablo High School in
2002. Coordinated Care Teams now operate in 35
schools in MDUSD.
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Coordinated Care Teams
Coordinated Care Teams are established in 35
MDUSD elementary, middle and high schools serving
students from high- income, middle-income, and
low-income neighborhoods.
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An Umbrella of Student Support
Positive Behavior Support System Building
Effective Schools Together (BEST)
Coordinated Care Teams (CCT)
Positive Behavior Team (PBT)
School Attendance Review Teams (SART / SARB)
Student Success Team (SST)
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Framework for Promoting Educational Success UCLA
Adelman, H. Taylor, L., UCLA, 2002
www.smph.psych.ucla.edu
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Mt. Diablo Unified School District Building
Effective Schools Together B.E.S.T.

• Mental Health Services / Social skills training
• Hughes Bill Intensive BSP or FAA and PBIP
• Parent training and collaboration, Parent Project
  
• Triage referral, SMART team (wrap), MHC classes,
  AB3632, Day Treatment, NPS School, Residential
• SARB
• Positive Behavior Team

Targeted/ Intensive (High-risk
students) Individual Interventions (3-5)

• Counseling / social skills training
• Self-management programs, i.e. Loma Vista
• Parent training and collaboration
• Adult mentors (check-in)
• Increased academic support, Triage
• 504 / BSP, train staff, monitor implementation
• Coordinated Care Team

Selected (At-risk Students) Classroom Small
Group Strategies (7-10 of students)

• Social skills training
• Positive, proactive discipline
• Teaching school behavior expectations
• Active supervision and monitoring
• Positive reinforcement systems
• Firm, fair, and corrective discipline

Universal (All Students) School-wide
Systems of Support (85-90 of students)
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Coordinated Care Teams

• Employ a school-wide referral system to
• address educational, health, mental health,
  and other concerns that reduce student
  achievement.
• Meet weekly to discuss students of concern,
  develop intervention plans, and review progress.

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Coordinated Care Teams

• Provide a platform to deliver and coordinate
  community resources at school.
• Partnerships with community agencies and
  programs are formalized through a Memorandum of
  Understanding (MOU) with MDUSD.

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Coordinated Care Teams
Strength-based programs and activities are
combined with professional services to form
packages of support for individual students.
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Coordinated Care Teams

• Manage and coordinate all efforts to
• address student concerns.
• Intervene early after problems arise.
• Track intervention plans.
• Save time and increase effectiveness.

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Coordinated Care Teams
Care Teams provide oversight and coordination of
intervention plans for multiple students at each
meeting.
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Coordinated Care Teams connect students and
families with

• School-based programs.
• 2) District interventions and programs.
• Community resources.

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Coordinated Care Teams
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CCT Forms

• Map of school resources
• School-wide referral form (Elementary
  Secondary)
• CCT Weekly Agenda Template
• Referral Reply form
• Parent Permission Form
• Provider Confidentiality Agreement
• CCT Central Disposition List
• End of Year Summary Forms
• Release of information forms

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Coordinated Care Team Members

• Principal and Co-administrator(s)
• Teachers (Special Education General Ed)
• School Psychologist
• School Nurse
• Child Welfare Attendance Liaison
• Registrar / Secretary
• After-school Program Staff
• Social Work / Psychology Interns
• Staff members of county and community-based
  agencies with whom the District has formed
  partnerships.

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Coordinated Care Teams

• Assist to address school-wide and community
  concerns.

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Coordinated Care Teams

• Provide the coordination system for multiple
  components of the Coordinated School Health
  Program
• (Sponsored by the American Cancer Society).

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Coordinated School Health Program (American
Cancer Society)
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Coordinated Care Teams

• Coordinated Care Teams ensure that school-based
  programs are not used in a fragmented way.

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Collaboration
A process where people come together to
identify common interests, define common
problems, and seek solutions that reach beyond
what any one of them could accomplish on their
own. (Author Unknown)
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Collaboration levels
Collaboration Cooperation Communication
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Collaboration
If you dont know where youre going, youll
wind up somewhere else. Yogi Berra
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Outcomes and Benefits
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Benefits To School Sites

• Improved attendance rates.
• Reduced disciplinary rates.
• Improved educational success.
• Support for teachers and administrators.
• Alternatives to suspension / expulsion.
• Culturally competent service delivery.
• Enhanced communication among staff.
• Strengthened link between home, school and
• the community.
• Members learn up-to-date information about
• resources in the community.