School Social Workers Help Students

• Receive maximum benefits from their educational opportunities

• Understand themselves and others

• Improve relationships

• Build their self-esteem

• Cope with Stress

• Develop self-discipline

• Learn Problem Solving skills

• School Social Workers assist children to overcome problems that affect their social, emotional and academic development.

Projects Links

• Peer Resistance Training (S.A.D.D.)

• Empty Bowl Project

• Safety Patrol

• Peacemakers

• Food Pantry

Food Pantry Donations

School Social Workers Help Schools

• Understand all the unique factors (cultural, familia, economic, health and situational) affecting the students' abilities to make maximum use of their school experience

• Provide support to school personnel as they utilize all resources to meet the educational, social and emotional needs of the students

• Work toward connecting community and schools in a collaborative effort to utilize all available community resources

Photographs

Safety Patrol

Empty Bowls, made by Onekama students, will be glazed, fired and filled with soup to support the Food Pantry Program.

School Social Workers Help Parents

• Identify and understand the child's special problems and help the parents meet their children's social and emotional needs

• Effectively participate in their child's education in partnership with the school

• Participate in education programming decisions for their child

• Understand programs available to children and utilize school and community resources

Food Pantry

Our 5th and 6th grade students have been participating in a Community Learning Service Project. Once a month they go to the St. Joseph Church Community Food Pantry and lend a hand. On the last Thursday of each month, four 5th graders help adult volunteers unload, unpack and set up food and other household necessities that will be available to less advantaged families in the community. On the next day, four 6th graders help carry out the distributed goods to the recipients cars. This is especially helpful to senior citizens and mothers with young children in tow. The retired volunteers at the Pantry are extremely delighted to have our young helpers ease their tasks, and our students gain important social awareness and insights into our small community. They are learning to give and think beyond themselves. The students find this to be a very rewarding experience.