Child Assistance Team

1. Child Assistance Team Masonic Model

2. Twin Peaks Child Assistance Team Mission Statement The Twin Peaks Child Assistance Team will collaborate with teachers to develop intervention action plans in order to promote student success.

3. The CAT Team Consists of: • Classroom Teachers • Administration • School Counselor • Behavior Coach • Special Education/Speech Teachers • School Psychologist • Reading Specialists

4. Poor Attendance Tired Frustrated Lack of Effort Angry Talkative Disruptive Bullying Failing Acting Out Loner

5. What Do I Do Now? ? ? ? ? ?

6. Intervention Ideas (Multiple Pages)

7. Refer the Child to the Child Assistance Team

8. Purpose of the Child Assistance Team • To brainstorm possible intervention ideas • To provide an intervention action plan to the classroom teacher • To provide follow-up and alternate intervention ideas • When intervention is not successful, the Child Assistance Team may recommend a Step II Meeting

9. CAT Referral Process & Timeline • Teacher collects informal documentation of area(s) of concern • The classroom teacher submits the initial referral • The student is assigned a child advocate • The child is assigned a CAT meeting date (2-10 weeks after the initial referral) • The child advocate distributes the data collection forms to all staff who have contact with the child

10. CAT Referral Process & Timeline Con’t • Staff members complete and return the forms to the child advocate by the assigned due date • The Child Advocate compiles all of the data collected onto a summary form • The Child Assistance Team meets to discuss the child and to create an intervention plan • The Child Advocate places a hot pink notice in the child’s cumulative folder to indicate that there is a CAT file for this child

11. TPE School Initial Referral to C.A.T.

12. CAT Initial Referral Intervention Checklist

13. CAT Directions for the Classroom Teacher

14. CAT Child Advocate Checklist

15. Classroom Teacher Data Collection Form

16. Specialist Data Collection Form

17. Classroom Teacher Discipline Data

18. Counselor Form

19. Health Checklist

20. Attendance Checklist

21. CAT Student Interview (Optional)

22. CAT Data Summary Form (Multiple Pages)

23. Confidentiality Please follow strict confidentiality guidelines when referring a student to the Child Assistance Team. • All information recorded on CAT forms must be specific, descriptive, observable, and factual • CAT forms are school records and may be requested by parents • Return forms to the designated Child Advocate in a sealed envelope • Only discuss the child’s case with colleagues who have an “educational need to know”

24. Team Do’s & Don’ts

25. Team Meeting Format • Child Advocate presents the case/information about the child (4 min) • CAT members ask clarifying questions (1 min) • CAT members brainstorm intervention ideas. Classroom teacher writes all ideas on chart paper. (7 min) • Classroom teacher reviews the ideas and decides which ones he/she would like to try first. The intervention action plan is written for the child. (8 min)

26. Fish Bowl Activity

27. Writing an Action Plan

28. Year End Status Checklist

29. Poem from Masonic Foundation for Children It is not the action Nor the fruit of the action that is important You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, or It may not be in your time that there will be any fruit; But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You any never know what results come from your action, But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

30. Contact Information Robert Shrager, Training Registration Arizona Masonic Foundation for Children 9208 E. Bellevue Street Tucson, AZ 85715 Fax (520) 885-8332 E-mail LBOB130709@MSN.COM All Masonic SAT Trainings are Free