Concord School District

Concord Children's System of Care Expanded Integration Project - Through the Concord Children's System of Care Expanded Integration Project, the Concord School District (CSD), in Direct Collaboration With Riverbend Community Mental Health Center, Will Serve as a Hub for School-based Mental Health Services, Family Behavioral Health Education, and Timely Facilitated Referrals for External Clinical Care. as New Hampshire's Capital City, Concord Is Home to Over 4,000 Pre-k - Grade 12 Public School Students, More Than a Third of Whom Qualify for Free or Reduced Lunch. All Five Elementaries, the Single Middle School, and the Sole High School Are Perennially Title I Schools and, at Any Given Time, 80-110 of Our Students Experience Homelessness. as the State's Most Common Refugee Resettlement Community, Concord Has Welcomed Thousands of New American Students to Its Schools Over the Past Decade. Pre-pandemic, 35% of CSD High Schoolers Reported Symptoms of Clinical Depression; That Figure Has Risen to 39%, as Has the Number Who Have Seriously Considered Suicide (23%). the Overarching Goals of the Project Are to: 1) Build the Capacity of Stakeholders With a Shared Interest in and Responsibility for Children's Mental Health Through Intentional Collaboration, Workforce Development, Community-wide Training, and Codified Policy Change; 2) Mitigate Barriers to Clinical Care Needed by School-aged Youth and Young Adults With Sed/smi by Establishing Responsive Pathways to School- and Community-based Individual Therapy, Wraparound, and Crisis Intervention; 3) Respond to the Increasing Need for Targeted Interventions Through the Creation of an Alternative Middle School Program for Youth With And/or at Risk of Developing a Sed/smi, the Facilitation of Skills Groups in the Elementary Schools, and the Implementation of Restorative Practices at the Secondary Level; 4) Implement Tier 1/PREVENTATIVE Approaches in Classrooms, Preschool - Grade 12, to Create an Equitable School Climate That Supports Students' Behavioral Health Needs in a Covid-era World. This Project Will Clinically Serve 10% of Our Student Population Through Tier 2/3 Services Per Year, Including an Annual 50 Highest-needs Students Assessed via the Noms, for a Total of 1,600 Unduplicated Youth Enrolled in School- And/or Clinic-based Mental Health Services Throughout the Project. Additionally, Tier 1/PREVENTION Programming Will Benefit All Students in the District. We Will Work With No Fewer Than 400 Families, Through Training and Family Therapies, Project-wide. to Respond to the Increased Behavioral Health Needs of Students, Care Coordination Infrastructure Is a Chief Priority; Two Cmhc/school Liaisons and a Family Coordinator Will Be the Conduit Between the School District, Community Mental Health Center, and Families to Effectively Facilitate Co-located Services, Participate in Multi-tiered System of Supports for Behavioral Health and Wellness (mtss-b), and Support School- and Community-based Prevention Programming. to Achieve Optimal Behavioral Health Outcomes for Students and Their Families, the District and Riverbend Will Also Partner With the State Departments of Health & Human Services and Education, Youth- and Family-serving Entities (e.g. Concord Family Ymca, Parent Information Center), and Local Health and Social Service Providers (e.g. Waypoint, Community Bridges).