School Social Workers

Each school site has a School Social Worker who provide and coordinate mental health and wellness services for students, staff and families. In addition, our schools offer wellness centers designed to ensuring equity of access and availability of mental health and wellness services promoting positive well-being and social-emotional development. Some of these supports and services may include:

Wellness Awareness Sessions & Events
Wellness Activities (Mindfulness, Social Emotional Learning, Yoga)
Student Support Groups
One-to-one short term counseling services
Professional Learning
Consultation and Coordination
Connections to Community Resources & Agencies for Intensive Services
Mental Health Crisis Response
School Linked Services

Interventions and Counseling

Facilitating groups related to social skills, bereavement and grief counseling, conflict management/truancy prevention, parenting, and family adjustment
Short-term individual counseling
Promoting educational Success
Addressing social and emotional concerns
Addressing family concerns
Crisis

School Social Workers

Name	School Site	Phone Number	Email Address
Amanda Caparas	CCA		[email protected]
Israel Velazquez	Bridges		[email protected]
Laura Lopez	Kennedy		[email protected]
Yadira Cruz	Dahl		[email protected]
Erika Martinez	Stonegate		[email protected]
Alissa Isaacson	District Early Learning		[email protected]
Nichole Scagliotti	Shirakawa		[email protected]
Van Pham	Ramblewood		[email protected]
Karen Real	Meadows		[email protected]
Eva Martinez	McKinley		[email protected]
Edwin Subuyuj	Los Arboles
Lindsay Harke	Lairon		[email protected]
Teresa Perez	Franklin


Taylor Tharp	Sylvandale		[email protected]
Sarina Huerta	Windmill		[email protected]

School Linked Services Coordinators

Name	Title	Phone Number	Email Address
Diana Covarrubias	School Linked Services Coordinator		[email protected]

Araceli Gutierrez	School Linked Services Coordinator		[email protected]

District Office Administration

Name	Title	Phone Number	Email Address

Jennifer Klassen	Director, Early and Elementary Education	(408) 283-6094	[email protected]

School Social Work Association of America, SSWAA

School social work is a specialized area of practice within the broad field of the social work profession. School social workers bring unique knowledge and skills to the school system and the student services team. School Social Workers are trained mental health professionals who can assist with mental health concerns, behavioral concerns, positive behavioral support, academic, and classroom support, consultation with teachers, parents, and administrators as well as provide individual and group counseling/therapy. School social workers are instrumental in furthering the mission of the schools which is to provide a setting for teaching, learning, and for the attainment of competence and confidence. School social workers are hired by school districts to enhance the district's ability to meet its academic mission, especially where home, school and community collaboration is the key to achieving student success. (School Social Work Association of America, sswaa.org)