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Schoeben cont. from page 39
– have difficulty interpreting the tone of online comments, and can be
tempted into too-impulsive online communication.
“Their brains are still growing, until they’re about 25, and so they’re
more impulsive, it’s harder to slow down and make good decisions.”
Money matters
The school district covers 80 percent of CASSY’s funding, and Schoeben,
the former business banking salesperson, must fundraise the rest, which
totals about $45,000.
CASSY’s effectiveness is measured through feedback from kids, parents
and school staff, and by the Children’s Global Assessment Scale, commonly
called C-GAS, which evaluates the level of functioning, and severity
of mental illness, in children and adolescents.
CASSY Southern California’s first round of evaluative data will be compiled
at the end of the school year.
“We assume it will parallel [CASSY Bay Area], where 90 percent of the
students we see get better, based on the C-GAS scale,” Schoeben said.
The school district had been seeking ways to better address students’ social
and emotional needs for a couple of years, said Kimberly Fricker, assistant
superintendent for educational services.
Conversations with students and parent groups had underscored the
need to help high school kids cope with the pressures of complex academic
schedules and the increasingly competitive effort to get into desirable colleges
and universities, she said.
The district hopes that addressing the social and emotional needs of
younger students will help give them the resiliency they can call upon later,
to handle the greater stresses that high school can bring.
“I’m very excited and enthusiastic about this partnership with CASSY,”
Fricker said.
Looking ahead, Schoeben wants to expand CASSY.
“It’s important to have the district buy-in. We would like to grow district
by district.” Growing would help costs low and allow for better employee
training, Schoeben said.
Funding can be secured for counseling in financially disadvantaged
school districts through grants, and through Title IX of the federal civil
rights law.
“East Palo Alto is a very underserved community. Ninety percent of students
get free and reduced-cost lunch. But sometimes these districts are
easier to fund. It’s hard to write a grant for a community that has a lot of
wealth,” Schoeben said.
In her limited spare time, Schoeben relaxes by kickboxing, and she volunteers
four hours a week with crisistextline.org, a free, 24-hour crisis
counseling text line. Rob works as a consultant for startups and fledgling
businesses.
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