Student Intervention Services

Hillcrest High School, Room B-110

SIS provides services for at-risk students including, drug and alcohol abuse prevention and intervention, grief and counseling support, coping skills, and gang prevention and intervention. It includes the following programs:

Pathfinders: A gang intervention program for students K-12.

Peer Leadership Teams: High school students who promote healthy life skills through positive role modeling. They teach elementary students the refusal skills model.

Bully-Proofing: Identification and discussion of the "bullying" problem and how schools can develop a school-wide program.

At-Risk Counseling: Individual and group counseling to offer guidance, mentoring and counseling from SIS staff.

First Offenders: An early intervention program to educate and re-educate students on issues regarding drugs/alcohol. An option for first time offenders of Policy AS90.

Crisis Response Counseling: Helps students, parents and educators deal with the initial stresses of a crisis.

Ribbon Month: National Anti-Violence (purple ribbon) and Anti-Drug (red ribbon) month which is celebrated throughout the District each October.

Service-Learning: A method of teaching through which students apply newly acquired skills and knowledge to real life needs in their communities.

QPR: A suicide prevention program designed to raise public awareness about suicide and assist in identifying the warning signs.

Helping Hand: A monthly Jordan District publication that goes to all educators and covers at-risk topics.

Prevention Dimensions: A two-day training seminar for all new teachers which addresses at-risk issues pertinent to their classrooms. Grade level curriculum is distributed for use with students.

DARE: A national anti-drug and anti-alcohol program taught by the local law enforcement agencies.

Connections: A pro-active program that concentrates on developing gender specific issues with middle-school students.