Welcome to Allendale Public Schools - School Social Work!
Our mission is to assist students whose emotional and/or behavioral difficulties interfere with their abilities to access their education.
School social workers have skills in the following areas as identified by the Michigan Association of School Social Workers: 1) child psychopathology 2) diagnosis, assessment and testing, 3) educational disabilities and their impact on children and families, and 4) the practice of social work in educational settings. They have completed a master’s degree in social work including coursework specific to school social work competencies. The services that they provide in schools include, contributions to Individual Education Plans, individual sessions and other support to special education students and their families, consultations for teachers per student behavior, organization and support for school wide programs, and occasionally they also provide services for general education students and their families as it necessitates. In Allendale, Ellen VanDyken is the school social worker in the middle school and high school, Randy Ward is the school social worker at Oakwood as well as the district behavior specialist, and Bill Patteuw is the school social worker in the elementary and preschool.
School social workers have skills in the following areas as identified by the Michigan Association of School Social Workers: 1) child psychopathology 2) diagnosis, assessment and testing, 3) educational disabilities and their impact on children and families, and 4) the practice of social work in educational settings. They have completed a master’s degree in social work including coursework specific to school social work competencies. The services that they provide in schools include, contributions to Individual Education Plans, individual sessions and other support to special education students and their families, consultations for teachers per student behavior, organization and support for school wide programs, and occasionally they also provide services for general education students and their families as it necessitates. In Allendale, Ellen VanDyken is the school social worker in the middle school and high school, Randy Ward is the school social worker at Oakwood as well as the district behavior specialist, and Bill Patteuw is the school social worker in the elementary and preschool.
Helpful Links
http://www.allendale-twp.org/clerk/cares.html
http://www.chadd.org/
http://wholefamilyottawa.com/HTML/Interface/frameset-main-r.htm
http://www.additudemag.com/
http://www.loveandlogic.com/
http://miblsi.cenmi.org/MiBLSiModel/Support/FamilySupport.asp
http://www.chadd.org/
http://wholefamilyottawa.com/HTML/Interface/frameset-main-r.htm
http://www.additudemag.com/
http://www.loveandlogic.com/
http://miblsi.cenmi.org/MiBLSiModel/Support/FamilySupport.asp