What do School Social Workers Do?
What Do School Social Workers Do?
A sample of some of the things a School Social may do is listed below:
- Provide individual and group counseling
- Provide in classroom groups
- Assist students to improve self-esteem, social-skills, and self-control
- Teach children to advocate for themselves while advocating with them
- Family/student needs assessments
- Encourage school attendance and parental involvement
- Home visits
- Services for homeless students/families
- Crisis intervention services
- Participation in the development of behavioral modification plans
- Provide short/long-term case management services to individual students/short-term management for families
- Referrals to community agencies/coordination of services with community agencies
- Report suspected child abuse/neglect
- Liaison between school/family/community