Worrisome+Behaviours

From Carl:

I **would like to initiate a conversation about dealing with students with worrisome behaviours. These behaviours may include many things such as; chronic absence/lates, oppositional defiance, threats, violence, illegal/criminal activity, drug abuse, anxiety, depression...or any other change we see in a specific student’s behaviour different from their previous “baseline behaviour”. Currently there is an informal networking of staff which identifies worrisome behaviour but often there is no action because the pathways for collecting and communicating data is not clear. We do have more formal processes such as referral to counselling/PVP/School Based Team/YFC etc, but as a collective of teachers and support staff I believe we can do a better job of identifying these students so they can be dealt with in the most appropriate manner.**