SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, &
BEHAVIORAL PROGRAMMING

Equitable programming to support students with intense social, emotional, and behavioral challenges have consistently been an important yet challenging process for Local Education Agencies (LEA).

Through our experience implementing research-based strategies in classrooms, we have identified Five Core components (C5) to support equitable programming, mental health, and wellness:

Authentic Relationship Development
Rigorous Skill Development
Cognitive Collaboration
Targeted Growth
Equitable Systems Implementation

Our approach is to focus on cognitive-based intervention strategies that specifically target students showing lagging skill development, disabilities, trauma, or any combination of the three. The program is designed as an alternative to sending students to non-district programs, such as non public schools or residential treatment centers, allowing the district to have quality control and assuring students receive equitable education.

WHAT TO EXPECT

We partner with LEAs that are invested in long-term development of the whole-child. Long-term development is accomplished by helping students build new neural pathways, which fosters more equitable outcomes and positive societal contributions. Our comprehensive support includes:

Collaboration

We come alongside educators at the county, district, site, and classroom levels to develop integral pieces of the program that are tailored to the needs of the agency and community.

Consultation

We provide program manual development to address and build structures of sustainability and cognitive-based practices.

Coaching

We walk alongside educators to build their capacity as they implement newly acquired strategies while working with their students. We utilize a fidelity tool that evaluates key classroom and program structures in the areas of school climate, program components, academics, and SEL development at all three tiers.

Professional Development

We create an experience in which participants are engaged, challenged, and emotionally motivated to improve practices and positively change the lives of students they serve.

Data Solutions

We offer a software toolkit with a systems approach that provides visual analytics and dynamic analysis for specific areas of skill development.

KEY BENEFITS

Teaches and demonstrates research-based strategies WITH educators

Has shown to improve grades, attendance, and graduation rates

Decreases reliance on costly out of district placements, resulting in major cost savings

Builds collaborative and cognitive-based strategies toward working WITH students versus the traditional reward and consequence approach

Builds the LEAs capacity to support and sustain their own students and intervention programs

Educator, John Morse Therapeutic Center - K-8 School (CA)

"The staff at John Morse Therapeutic Center (JMTC) have fully embraced their collaboration with CLS as we work to transform our school community. JMTC was once under consideration for closure by SCUSD; however, the Board voted to allow time for the school to be reinvented. Since then, we have focused on creating a therapeutic, trauma-informed environment that prioritizes students’ mental health and supports their successful transition back to comprehensive school sites."