SAP Implementation Guide
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Seeing Trauma Through the Lens of Effective Student Assistance Strategies
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Adolescents and Substance Use: A Constant Crisis for the Student Assistance Professional
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Gang Assist - A Guide for Schools
Learn about gang-involved youth and the impact of gang activity on the school. This guide will help you to identify and intervene in gang-related issues within your communities and buildings.
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SAC Administrative Guide
This guide will help School Administrators understand the importance of Student Assistance for their schools and the students they serve and provides insight on the important role they play in supporting the success of Student Assistance in their buildings.
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SAP and the Seven School Turnaround Principles
Learn how student assistance impacts the seven school turnaround principles through a three-tiered intervention system.
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Safe, Supportive, and Successful Schools - Step by Step
A useful guide for including your SAP(Student Support Team in the guide) in a Safe, Supportive and Successful School.
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Our Truancy Project with Monroe/Randolph ROE
Our presentation at the ICEARY Conference about our collaborative work with Monroe/Randolph ROE. How SAP fits in the work of preventing truancy.
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Serious Mental Health Challenges Among Older Adolescents and Young Adults
2014 report from SAMHSA on the mental health and substance use challenges for older teens and young adults.
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Guide on the Principles of Treating Teen Substance Abuse
This guide includes:
- Thirteen principles to consider in treating adolescent substance use disorders
- Frequently asked questions about adolescent drug use
- Settings in which adolescent drug abuse treatment most often occurs
- Evidence-based approaches to treating adolescent substance use disorders
- The role of the family and medical professionals in identifying teen substance use and supporting treatment and recovery
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Model District School Policy on Suicide Prevention
Model commentary, language, and resources from The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, The American School Counselor Association, The National Association of School Psychologists, and The Trevor Project.
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Student Assistance: A Key Characteristic of Your Social-Emotional Learning Strategy
See how SAP impacts Social-Emotional Learning in Illinois.
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Getting Started with Student Assistance Programs
Read about the seven steps toward SAP implementation in your school.
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Student Assistance: An Effective Student Support Team Model
Student Support Teams have been utilized in schools for many years. SAP is an effective low cost way to implement student support within schools to effect change in student outcomes.
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5Essentials and Student Assistance
Information and data that helps connect the work of Student Assistance with the Illinois 5Essential Supports.
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Student Assistance Guidebook
This Student Assistance Program Guidebook identifies processes, strategies, tools, websites and other resources for Student Assistance Program service providers.
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Helping and Stages of Change
This resource is a guide to Prochaska and DiClemente’s Stages of Change Model and can be useful in influencing the types of interventions that will be useful in working with students.
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Solution-based SAP
A guide for integrating solution-focused services within your SAP.
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Student Assistance Forms
Sample forms that can be adapted and used by SAP teams for data collection and action planning with indicated students.
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Monitoring Tool Instructions
Instruction for the Excel Monitoring Tool below.
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Monitoring Tool
An Excel spreadsheet that can be used to monitor progress of students with which the SAP is working.
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Safe and Sound IL Edition
A guide to Social-Emotional Learning programs.
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Social-Emotional Tools
A guide to Social-Emotional Learning assessments.
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School-based Mental Health
A guide for implementing school-based mental health services.
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School Materials for a Mental Health Friendly Classroom
A packaged continuing education program for secondary school teachers and staff that focuses on mental health issues in the classroom.
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School Board Policy
The following information is offered as an aid in taking steps to address the policy and procedure needs of schools in considering the health and welfare of students and staff.
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Staff Development
A guide to help SAP teams conduct Staff Development activities.
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School Resource Map
A tool to assist SAP teams in identifying existing school and community resources that can be brought to bear for the needs of students within their schools.
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Problem Map
A tool to assist SAP teams to conceptualize the needs of a student with whom they work.
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Action Map
A tool to assist SAP teams to develop goals and action plans to address the needs of a student with whom they are working.
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Substance Abuse and Sexual Minority Health
A tool created by the Illinois Department of Public Health to raise awareness about the additional support LGBT youth may need.
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Student Assistance Programs: School Success in the Midst of Mental Illness
Learn about common mental health challenges and the impact of these on education and strategies for helping students.
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