The SDNB is proud to have available the joint resources provided by the cooperative partners involved with the district's Mental Health Advisory Committee.
The committee is comprised of school staff and officials, mental health professionals and parents with a collaborative focus on developing proactive strategies to identify potential mental health-related barriers to academic success in a safe environment. The committee works to provide learning to students, staff and parents around social emotional learning (SEL) and mental health issues.
The committee, founded in 2018, meets at least four times a year to discuss current social emotional and mental health initiatives that are occurring with the SDNB and to learn about new ideas and practices from the committee's parents and mental health partners. Several great ideas have come from this advisory committee such as increased suicide awareness, SEL parent university events, improved professional learning for staff and more.
As a result of the work of the committee, the SDNB has or will receive Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction grant dollars in four straight school years dating back to 2019-20 to expand school-based mental healthcare counseling services provided within the district through a partnership with Family Services of Waukesha.
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