School Community Liaison Program

- The Community School Liaison program is an innovative program highlighting a partnership between Ashland County School Districts and the Ashland County Mental Health and Recovery Board. School is an important lifeline for a student, sometimes the only connection between a child’s family and the community resources they need to thrive. Liaisons provide behavioral health support and linkage to the students throughout the Ashland County public school district.
- Thanks to Mental Health Levy funding, services are offered to schools and families at NO COST.
Program Goals
- Increase student attendance
- Respond to daily crisis in the schools
- Enhance coping skills of children
- Provide easier access to community resources
- Engage families and increase partnerships and communication between parents and schools
What Liaisons Do
- Work with parents and students on school attendance
- Promote healthy personal development by instilling hope and teaching life skills
- Brief assessments to identify student & family needs
- Linkage to school & community resources
- Collaboration & consultation with school staff
- Crisis intervention & debriefing interventions to teach healthy life skill development
- Family outreach, education, and home visits
- Daily presence in the schools
- Increase school attendance
- Enhance coping skills of children
- Respond to daily crisis in the schools
- Provide easier access to community resources
- Increase academic performance and promote healthy personal development
Referrals
Referrals come from principals, guidance counselors, teachers, intervention teams, student self-referral, parents, and other community agencies. Liaisons can be contacted through their respective schools.