School Social Workers
School social workers serve as a link with the home, school, and community in offering direct as well as indirect services to students, families, and school personnel to promote and support students' academic and social success.
In this role, we emphasize and enjoy building relationships with families through identifying strengths to help students feel and be successful. Focusing on resilience is a way that we collaborate with students, parents, guardians, teachers, staff, administrators, and community agencies and organizations to address student and family needs.
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
DC Virgo Preparatory Academy is committed to providing students with the tools that will help them fulfill their potential and be successful in their post-secondary lives. Part of this effort involves providing direct instruction that fosters the development of social-emotional skills that enable students to face academic and personal challenges in a positive, constructive and successful manner. Some of the social-emotional learning strategies we have implemented consist of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM), Restorative Practices and The Positivity Project, that students receive through morning meetings.
Community Resiliency Model (CRM)
The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® is evidence based and trains community members to not only help themselves but to help others within their wider social network. The primary focus of this skills-based, stabilization program is to re-set the natural balance of the nervous system.
CRM’s goal is to help to create “trauma-informed” and “resiliency-focused” communities that share a common understanding of the impact of trauma and chronic stress on the nervous system and how resiliency can be restored or increased using this skills-based approach.