Universal screening of academic behavior skills, emotional behavior skills and social behavior skills for 2nd through 6th graders is done through mySAEBRS (Social Academic Emotional Behavior Risk Screener). This tool is administered through FastBridge Learning® which is the same system we use for our reading and math screeners. Universal screening for SEBH at the 7th through 12th grade level is completed with the Panorama SEL Screening tool. These tools allow us the opportunity to hear directly from students about how they are feeling, as well as, look for universal areas of need expressed across the whole student population.

Elementary Counselors teach weekly lessons using the Second Step Social-Emotional Learning Program, which incorporates age-appropriate Steps to Respect Bullying Prevention Unit lessons. Counselors also provide information to school staff about key components of the Steps to Respect Bullying Prevention program. All three junior high schools have started using an extension of the Second Step SEL curriculum as part of their homeroom/advisory lessons. 

In fall of 2021, ICCSD received a grant from the Iowa Department of Education to support our continued efforts to increase access to mental health training opportunities for staff and services available to our school community.

Learn more about GEER Grant Overview

Counselors and Student Family Advocates have access to this curriculum that can be used to teach coping skills to students that present with symptoms of anxiety.  Materials can be used with individual students, as well as, with small groups of students.

Partnership to access 24/7/365 Mobile Crisis Outreach services available in Johnson county; mental health counselors are dispatched to homes, schools, emergency rooms, or public places where a mental health crisis is occurring.

Services are voluntary and available to all staff, students and families.

Learning Supports Department led trained team of experts that are available to assist schools in times of crisis or after a traumatic event; district staff are trained by GWAEA in the CISM response model.

Group-based instruction and development of the following skills using the DBT curriculum: Mindfulness; Distress Tolerance; Emotional Regulation; and Interpersonal Effectiveness.

• Services provided through a partnership with UIHC Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Various opportunities available throughout our secondary schools.
• Behavioral Health Studies, a trimester long course using the DBT in Schools curriculum, was added to the high school course of study catalog for fall 2022.

Individual and group based support for students who are struggling due to losing a loved one; consultation regarding support options for families who are experiencing high levels of grief and loss.

Limited on-site services are available through a partnership with UI Child Life Department.

Open to all children in the county without health insurance, or with other barriers to getting care. Medical clinics operate in the schools to provide free medical care, including pediatrics, vision and dental.

• Clinic Coordinator works with families and community healthcare providers to establish a medical home, and assists the families in applying for insurance if eligible.
• Specialty care is provided by many community providers, often pro-bono or at a reduced rate. 

Learn more about our Healthy Kids School-Based Clinics.

Updated as of February 2022; this list is always evolving and growing as we formalize additional partnerships to support our school community.

Learn more about our Interagency Agreements.

The district has multiple interagency agreements and contracts with community agencies to provide on-site mental health counseling for select students. These agencies provide limited and planful school-based therapy for individual students as determined by the school team with parent input/involvement.

Student Family Advocates and School Counselors are available to each building to provide limited support to students with mental health needs and their families, as well as connect them with mental health care providers in the community.

• Four Oaks and ChildServe partner with the school district to provide mental health counseling services to students on-site and at their agencies. These agencies bill third party payers for those with insurance. Limited funding is available to support students who are uninsured.
• As part of pandemic programming adaptations, ICCSD developed guidance for schools so families who are interested in their student participating in telehealth therapy visits could do so during the course of the school day.
• NAMI of Johnson County works with the school district to provide educational resources to staff and families.

Offered through the Healthy Kids School-Based Clinics; open to all students in the district that are uninsured or have access barriers to psychiatric care.

• UIHC Child Psychiatrist provides psychiatric evaluations and medication follow-up 1 morning/ week, in the Healthy Kids Clinic. UIHC bills third party payers for those with insurance. Limited funding is available to support students who are uninsured. 
• Spanish speaking Student Family Advocate provides clinic coordination and additional support for Latino/Hispanic families who are struggling to navigate or access mental health services.

Individual and family short term crisis intervention services provided at school or in the community by trained therapists who work to stabilize conflict situations.

Services available at all secondary buildings, with consultation provided at upper elementary, through a partnership with United Action for Youth