Mapping the Trail
A Shasta County Story of Connecting Students and Families to Support Services.
Integrated support services is about enhancing the connection between community resources and our schools, ensuring every student and family has seamless access to the support they need for educational and personal success. It also includes tailoring these services to enhance and complement existing programs, facilitating effective and straightforward collaboration that enhances a school's supportive environment.
At the heart of community school development, the integrated services role involves a three-tiered approach to integrating school-centered services and supports, focusing on inclusivity and effectiveness, especially within our rural settings.
Our Three-Tiered Approach to Integration
Enhanced Community Connect Integration
- Objective: Improve understanding and use of community services through stronger links with Community Connect.
- Impact: Streamline referrals and provide case management to ease access challenges, ensuring families and students receive the support they need efficiently.
Deepened Collaborative Connections
- Objective: Utilize on-site Community Connectors to enhance engagement and coordination with services.
- Impact: Foster a cohesive network for data and service sharing, making support more integrated and responsive to student need.
On-Campus Service Provision
- Objective: Select and integrate essential services directly on school sites to meet community-specific needs.
- Impact: Facilitate accessible, on-site support that enhances overall student and family well-being.
These strategies are designed not in sequence but as flexible options to effectively meet the diverse needs of our rural community, optimizing resource use and improving health integration within Shasta County schools.
At Shasta County Office of Education (SCOE) - Community School Support Services Department integrated support services can function in 3 different ways.
Esther Craig
Meet Esther Craig,
Program Director of Integrated Student Support Services. She came to SCOE with a background in health education, community collaboration and youth leadership.
Her role includes coordinating a range of on-site services and support to overcome both academic and nonacademic barriers to students' educational and life success. Support includes medical and dental, working in collaboration with support School Nurses and Health Clerks. Our department is currently working toward securing a Mobile Unit to help alleviate the need for additional space within schools.
Why Esther Craig?
Esther’s approach is not just about placing services in schools but about weaving these services into the fabric of school activities and community life. She ensures that the support is responsive, inclusive, and precisely tailored to the needs of our students and their families.
Data Dashboard
Integrated support services continuously works on collaborating with partners to establish support services that directly benefit students and families. Individual districts/ schools select which services will best support their families.
We're currently focused on the process of integrating services directly into sites, which is a task that requires dedicated time and effort. We're diligently building relationships and identifying the most suitable and sustainable partnerships along the way.
Integrated Support Services
The following programs are providing an integrated support service. These programs are supporting our school sites, students and families in different capacities:
- United Way 211- Keeps an updated information and referral service database of local no-cost or low-cost services. We collaborate closely with United Way to keep our Community Connect referral system up to date. United Way has graciously donations winter hats, gloves, socks, hygiene kits and emergency kits that were delivered by Community Connectors to school sites.
- Daybreak Health- Partnering with SCOE Community School Support Services to provide personalized teletherapy for families.
- Shasta County Health and Human Services Local Oral Health Program- Provides families free Kindergarten dental screenings on campuses.
- SCOE CalFresh- CalFresh assists low or no-income families in purchasing healthy food. For more information or application assistance contact Jilmarie Bentley at (530) 225-0182 or https://bit.ly/getcalfreshscoe
Contact Esther Today to:
- Share about what your school is already doing.
- Connect with resources in our community.
- Support in finding new services, if there is an unmet need.
- Enhance your school's support system.
Esther Craig Program Director - Integrated Support Services Shasta County Office of Education Community School Support Services Email: ecraig@shastacoe.org Phone: 530-345-1920
Thought interaction with this story map I hope you have gain insight into:
- The approach Shasta County is taking to integrate support services
- What support to a school site could look like
- The types of services being explored
- and the number of programs being explored.
Map Of Programs
Interactive map features programs that are:
- SCOE Internal Services and Supports
- SCOE External Contracted Partners
- SCOE Referral Partners
- Funded Community School Partners
I invite you to explore programs by selecting them on the left hand side or hovering over map and selecting a point.
SCOE - Community School Support Services
Program of SCOE.
SCOE- Bridges to School Success
A program of SCOE.
SCOE- Help Me Grow
A program of SCOE.
SCOE- CalFresh
Program of SCOE.
SCOE- After School Supper Program
Do you have an afterschool program that you would like to serve a larger snack to? The CACFP program has an afterschool supper program that allows you serve a 5 item meal instead of a 2 item meal.
SCOE - Youth Support Services
Program of SCOE.
SCOE- Project SHARE
Project SHARE (Shasta Health, Academic and Recreation Enrichment) is a collaborative effort between Shasta County Office of Education, school districts and support agencies to provide out of school time activities for our students. Our mission, our goals, and our vision guide our programs to success. SHARE operates from school dismissal to 6:00PM.
