What is the role of a School Social Worker?
School Social Workers Help Students:
School Social Workers Help Parents:
School Social Workers Help Communities:
School Social Workers Help Schools:
School Social Workers Help Students:
- Achieve maximum academic benefits from their educational opportunities.
- Understand themselves and others.
- Develop self-control and take responsibility for their actions.
- Cope with stress.
- Develop decision-making skills.
- Develop social skills.
School Social Workers Help Parents:
- Participate effectively in their children’s education
- Better understand and meet their child’s social and emotional needs.
- Better understand and utilize school and community resources available to help students and parents
School Social Workers Help Communities:
- Understand school policies, programs, and practices
- Minimize the environmental factors which inhibit learning
- Develop resources to adequately meet the needs of students and families.
School Social Workers Help Schools:
- Understand factors that affect student’s abilities to make maximum use of their school experience.
- Access community resources
- Improve school climate through development of school policies and a wide range of prevention and intervention programs