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Care Team

Care Team

The CARE (Coordination, Assessment, Response, and Education) Team exists to examine factors that could potentially disrupt a student's academic or social well-being within the school community. The goal is to intervene as early as possible in order to help support the student with engagement and attendance goals. The team will review existing data sources (i.e. Panorama, PowerSchool), discuss individual cases, and coordinate an appropriate action plan for response. The CARE team serves as a pre-EST/Kid-Talk model to provide a coordinated effort of intervention for students at the universal level within WNESU’s Multi-Tiered System of Support.

The mission of the CARE Team is to:

  • To support student success and belonging
  • To lead a collaborative multidisciplinary effort to promote health and safety for all members of the school community
  • To develop strategies that best utilize school, district and community resources to assist students and staff, and provide early intervention for problematic behaviors

Possible outcomes from the CARE meeting:

  • Referral for Home to School Liaison Services
  • Referral for School-Based Clinician Services
  • Creation of a short term intervention plan (academics, attendance, behavior)
  • Connection to under utilized resources
  • Connection plan with parent/families
  • Consideration of Truancy Affidavit and/or DCF reporting
  • Review of broader trends (e.g. community data re: Truancy, Bias incidents, HHB / Title IX, discipline referrals) within the community as it pertains to engagement, safety, and belonging.
  • Referral to EST (Educational Support Team) or Student Support Services