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Family Supports & Services

Supporting Our Families

Community schools promote equity by ensuring all students have the opportunities to be successful. In a community school model, students are put at the center. Community schools uplift student voices in order to ensure each individual student feels safe, a sense of belonging and that they have the necessary tools to thrive. The components of community school work are: fostering authentic family and community engagement, creating powerful learning opportunities outside of the school day, integrating health and social supports, establishing inclusive leadership, providing resource coordination and creating shared ownership.

Family Liaison Services

Every school has an assigned Family Liaison to serve parents and guardians with a variety of resources. Family Liaisons serve as a bridge between home and school, and their main roles include:

  • Attendance Monitoring & Intervention
  • Parenting Education / Engagement
  • Access and linkage to community resources (Food, clothing, health, financial & legal assistance)
  • McKinney Vento / homeless determination

If you’d like to connect with your school’s Family Liaison, you can contact the Front Office or reach out to them directly:

Family Liaison Success Story

A new family arrived at an elementary school after the start of the year. The family began working with the Family Liaison, who met with them in their home and learned about the family's goals. The Liaison found that they were newly arrived in the country, were eligible for McKinney Vento due to unstable housing, and helped them connect to a variety of resources. The family has since been empowered to connect with a medical home, food pantries, holiday gift programs, and clothing programs. The Liaison worked alongside the family as they found reliable employment and eventually moved into stable housing. As a result, the students have been regularly attending school, participating in classes, and staying for CAPE after-school program.

Parenting Resources

Mental Health Resources

Care Solace
24/7 Mental Health Care Coordination for Students. Staff and their Families
Click here to access the Care Solace website. 

WeGo Together Community Mental Health Clinicians

WeGo Together for Kids provides two full-time Mental Health providers hired by outside organizations to provide individual and family therapy services to D33 families. To learn more about the referral process, contact your school social worker.

Additional resources:

Youth suicide impacts the safety of the school environment. It also affects the school community, diminishing the ability of surviving students to learn and the school’s ability to educate. Suicide and depression awareness and prevention are important Board goals.

West Chicago School District 33 Board of Education Policy 7:290

988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline - Chat

For more information about mental health services or social-emotional learning, please reach out to your child's school.