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[Music] Welcome to
Meeting All Student Needs

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Through Wraparound Services.

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Hi, my name is Susan Barker.

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I'm the student services
coordinator for Foxfire Center

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for Student Success;
it's in Zanesville, Ohio.

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Foxfire serves an alternative
education population.

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These are kids that have
challenges-physical, emotional,

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social, behavioral, and in
order to meet these needs,

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Foxfire has developed
a special program.

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They provide embedded
wraparound services.

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Now this means that all
those needs-social, physical,

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behavioral, emotional, and
academic-are met by a team.

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This team consists of a
law enforcement officer,

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a social worker-a social worker
who's specially trained to work

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with these kids, a
public health nurse.

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And this teachers' team
also includes the teachers,

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the administrators, the student
support people, the secretaries,

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the custodian, the
board members.

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Everybody that is part of
that school, or associated

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with that school at all, helps
with these kids because the key

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to working with these
kids is not only knowledge

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about academics and the
social and behavioral piece,

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but the key is relationships

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and building relationships
with the kids.

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The relationships piece
is so big with these kids.

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If they don't trust you
and they don't believe

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that you are sincerely
trying to help them,

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they won't do anything.

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The staff and the board and all
the people that go into Foxfire

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to work with these
kids understand that

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and truly are committed and
caring about these kids.

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The kids know it and they
respond in very positive ways.

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The staff and the board and the
community members provide all

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kinds of specific programs

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to meet the special
needs of these kids.

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They have classes on
sexually transmitted diseases;

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they have classes on
alcohol and drug prevention.

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There is a huge wellness
component in this school.

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The staff and the kids take part
in a wellness program that deals

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with weight loss and nutrition.

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There are community
connections with services also.

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There's a care team, which is
a multidisciplinary team made

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up of lots of agencies
in the county.

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When the school has determined
the needs of the kids,

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they take the kids to the care
team, and the care team works

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with all these community
agencies to meet the needs

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of the kids and their families.

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It might be finding a place
to live; it might be helping

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with heating bills; it might
be transporting the student

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to the doctor, all
those kinds of needs.

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They are coordinated, of course,
by the single point of contact

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in the school and that is
the school social worker.

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A neighborhood church provides
lots of support for Foxfire.

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They have meetings there.

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The graduation ceremonies
were held there.

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The minister is on the board
and teaches an ethics class;

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it's one of their
favorite classes.

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They also receive food from
an Appalachian food network.

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They have made as many linkages
as they can to make this work

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and meet all these
needs for the kids.

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Foxfire's purpose is
to help these kids get

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to the nitty-gritty of the
causes of these behaviors

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and these academic challenges.

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So the staff does very intensive
academic, social, behavioral,

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and physical assessments as
soon as the kids hit the door.

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Then they develop an independent

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or individual plan
for each child.

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The teachers, the
administrators, the counselor,

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and the nurse all work
on these programs,

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and they let the kids know,

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"This is what you are
supposed to be doing.

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This is what we are working on."

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It's not done in isolation.

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The student knows what they're
working on and the goals,

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and they have input into
how they get to these goals.

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When you are working with
the kind of kids that come

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to Foxfire and the kind of kids

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that need these alternative
methodologies,

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you have to meet
all of their needs.

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Just the academic piece
doesn't work for these kids.

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In order for them to succeed,
in order for them to graduate,

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and really more importantly,
to succeed in life,

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you have to provide these
wraparound services.

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These services enable
the kids to become well,

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not only emotionally but
physically and behaviorally.

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They help the kids get
along with other people,

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give them the skills in
life to work with others.

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The kids that come to Foxfire,

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any child in any
alternative school,

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needs these wraparound services
in order to not only graduate

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but to meet success in life.

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To learn more about
meeting all student needs

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through wraparound services,

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please explore the
additional resources

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on the Doing What Works website.

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