Core Team Training

If you are looking for a way to reduce barriers to learning for your students, and improve AYP and school climate, establish a Student Assistance Professionals (SAP) Core Team. This is an effective, low-cost way to really make a difference and has allowed schools throughout the U.S. to help students be more academically successful.

 

SAPs are modeled after employee assistance programs and address all issues that might keep a student from being academically successful.  SAPs include prevention, intervention, and postvention activities and are proactive, as well as reactive.  Training involves a team of professionals such as teachers, counselors, administrators, school nurses, school psychologists and social workers.

Goals of the Training

• promote safe schools

• teach respect

• promote bonding

• emphasize confidentiality

• offer support for students, staff and their families

• focus on natural highs

• hear what children are not saying

• prevent and intervene

• open the door for students and staff to get help for ATOD, abuse, suicide, and violence

• involve communities

• focus on teaching children, not subject matter

• synergize your efforts in working with students with self-destructive behaviors

• teach critical thinking

• promote resiliency

• offer hope

Email to: lisa@sapaofga.org