Excellence in Action: Monterey County's Educational Response to Covid-19*

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member at each school site until the end of the 2025-2026 school year. X HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTED HAS NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED BUT WILL BE IMPLEMENTED IN THE FUTURE REQUIRES FURTHER ANALYSIS WILL NOT BE IMPLEMENTED Response: The Mission Union School District Board of Trustees agrees with the need to have a minimum of one behavioral support staff member at each site. Each school will need to analyze the needs of their students and behavioral support may look different at each school depending upon available resources. For example, some schools will have Wellness Center staff available on a full-time basis, while others may have a school counselor, teacher on special assignment, a Behavioral Health clinician, a Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS) coordinator, trained behaviorist, or an administrator assigned to behavioral support. The type of behavioral support staff is dependent upon the local needs assessment, availability of funding, and workforce availability. Schools determine behavioral support needs and services as a part of their multi-tiered system of support. Further, Monterey County is fortunate to have a nationally recognized model for behavioral and mental health support. MCOE's Educational Services Division provides support and services to implement California's Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) model. A critical part of this work is called the Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF) which is a partnership between the Monterey County Office of Education, Monterey County Behavioral Health (MCBH), and the school districts. Through this framework, MCBH provides 65 clinicians in 18 of the 24 school districts in our county. The MCBH team also provides five social workers and one manager who is the liaison between MCBH and school staff. Schools employ school counselors and PBIS coordinators as well as any other support staff. Our community partners such as Partners for Peace, Harmony at Home, and Restorative Justice also work directly on school campuses so MCBH clinicians, school counselors, PBIS coordinators, and other support staff all work collaboratively with each other and community partners to provide support to students in all three tiers. The Monterey County Office of Education employs a full-time MTSS Coordinator and a PBIS Coordinator that provide support to all schools in Monterey County. Team members provide ongoing training and technical assistance for MTSS, PBIS, and trauma-informed education practices through the county Transformational Leadership Team where all of the partners work together to discuss current services and plan for future needs of students and families. As an integrated part of this work, team members provide training for Tier 1 universal supports, like Universal Design for Learning and Social-Emotional Learning activities; Tier 2 targeted supports, like small group interventions, tutoring and mentoring; and Tier 3 individual support for students, families, and staff. This is the tier where our mental health clinicians come into play. School districts maintain learning loss mitigation programs and extended