Social Worker
Elizabeth Knapp
School social workers help students:
· Achieve maximum benefit from their educational opportunities
· Understand themselves and others
· Improve their self-concepts
· Cope with stress
· Develop decision-making skills
School social workers help parents:
· Participate effectively in their children's education
· Understand and meet their children's social and emotional needs
· Understand programs available to students with special needs
· Utilize school and community resources effectively
School social workers help schools:
· Understand factors (cultural, societal, economic, familiar, health, etc.) that affect student's abilities to make maximum use of their social experience
· Utilize their resources in meeting the education, social and emotional needs of students