Blue Valley Schools
Social Workers
Blue Valley Schools partners with Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas City to provide a total of 40 master's-level social workers to serve both general education and special education needs within EC-12 schools and programs. These social workers work in collaboration with the school counselors and school psychologists to provide large and small group instruction, as well as individual services.
Who Is Your School Social Worker?
School Social Workers are licensed mental health professionals who promote social, emotional, behavioral, and academic success by collaborating with students, families, staff, and community partners. Your school social worker is part of the student support team within your building. Find your school's social worker in this document.
Your School Social Worker
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Is a link between home, school, and the community
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Supports social and emotional health to promote academic achievement
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Specializes in understanding people and their behavior in relation to the environment in which they live
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Recognizes student strengths to promote change and lifelong resilience
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Utilizes a trauma-informed care lens when providing interventions
How Students Can See the School Social Worker
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Self-Referral
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Parent Referral
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Teacher/Staff Referral
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Referral by Friend
The school social workers encourage parent involvement. Prior to providing services, the social worker contacts the parent to introduce services and obtain signed consent. Parents are invited to contact their child’s social worker with any concerns, input, or requests for assistance regarding their child. Together we are a team.
School Counselor
- Support entire student population
- Expertise in design and delivery of social and emotional supports, curriculum and individual planning
- Short-term small groups and individual supports
School Social Worker
- Support students with special needs or students identified by staff or parents (parent consent for ongoing services/evaluation)
- Expertise with community resources, family systems, mental health supports, and home/school communication
- More frequent and ongoing individual and small groups
School Psychologist
- Support students with special needs or students identified by staff or parents (parent consent for ongoing services/evaluation)
- Expertise in mental health including cognitive, social and emotional functioning
- Occasional individual counseling
