Sentences with phrase «wraparound services after»

Schools across the country are increasingly turning to wraparound services after recognizing that earlier efforts like creating new schools and putting pressure on teachers to boost test scores were not sufficient to help children living in poverty.

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Directs OASAS to create a wraparound services demonstration program to provide services to adolescents and adults for up to nine months after the successful completion of a treatment program.

She listed the benefits: «High quality teaching, not high - stakes testing, wraparound support, after school program, counselors, social service, health care, positive discipline, practices such as restorative practices, shared information, parent and community engagement,» Newkirk said.

Help can include targeted, high - quality professional development; curriculum improvements; additional time for student learning after school or in the summers; establishment of wraparound services, including community school models; redesign of schools to support personalization and more authentic work in classrooms and internships; or pairing of struggling schools with successful ones serving similar students.

Wraparound services — such as mental health services and after - school programs — are receiving increasing attention as schools seek to ensure that students have the full range of supports they need to succeed.

These improvements, known as «wraparound services,» have been successful in other turnaround efforts, notably the Harlem Children's Zone in New York, where families get free access to an array of health and nutrition counseling as well as after - school programs, truancy prevention, literacy programs, financial advice and domestic - crisis resolution.

The survey results show that Americans believe local public schools should be providing wraparound services, including mental health programs and after - school programs.

It is time for the U.S. finally to equalize school funding, address childhood poverty as it successfully did during the 1970s, institute universal early care and learning programs, and provide the wraparound services — health care, before - and after - school care, and social services — that ensure children are supported to learn.

The consequences will be devastating for every state, district, and school across the United States, where already - lean education budgets have prompted teacher layoffs, swelling class sizes, shortened school days, narrowed curricula, and the disappearance of crucial after - school programming and wraparound services.

Services include: Intake / Extended Assessment, Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services - Wraparound (BHRS), the Outpatient Mental Health Center, Therapeutic After School Program (TASP), Summer Therapeutic Activities Program (STAP), Transition Age Youth (TAY) Program, and Behavior Support and Social Skills Program.

Milwaukee Safe Streets Prisoner Release Initiative (PRI) Program Summary: This program combines enhanced employment opportunities and wraparound services for prisoners before and after release from prison.