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Apr 24, 2023
Brooke Borg, Director of Professional Development at Counseling In Schools, leads SEL and arts-integrated training across NYC schools. She discusses placing counselors in schools, training teachers on grief, crisis response, immigration, and restorative practices. Conversations highlight building trust, referral pathways, and practical tools to support students' social and emotional growth.
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Embedding Counselors Inside Schools
- Counseling In Schools embeds mental health counselors directly inside NYC public and Title I schools as staff paid by the nonprofit.
- Counselors work in varied disciplines (art therapists, social workers) and bridge school communities with nonprofit clinical support.
Always Start With A School Needs Assessment
- Do a needs assessment before designing professional development to capture differences between administrators' and teachers' perceptions.
- Counseling In Schools sends staff to meet schools and tailor workshops based on nuanced input from teachers and principals.
Expect Waves Of Different School Needs
- School needs change in waves: post-COVID grief supports and current asylum seeker/immigration-related needs dominate requests.
- Counseling In Schools is building crisis and immigration specialist capacity to address language and trauma barriers.