Helping schools address barriers to learning and create safer learning environments.

Contact Community Services provides training and support to school and school district personnel to address barriers to learning. We also offer direct services to students, including an after-school program at Shea Middle School and workshops teaching social/emotional skills.

TRAINING AND SUPPORT PROGRAMS

• Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
  Members of our staff are available to act as coaches to schools implementing PBIS—a systematic approach to preventing and responding to school and classroom discipline problems.

• Primary Project (formerly Primary Mental Health Project)
  The Primary Project is a research-based, early intervention program designed to
  • Help young students improve school adjustment and learning
  • Become more emotionally resilient
  • Develop better social skills

• Success Through Early Prevention (STEP)
  Success Through Early Prevention (STEP) is an alternative education program for third through sixth graders whose behavior significantly interferes with classroom instruction.

• Crisis Response Team Training
  Contact provides crisis response team training throughout Onondaga County to prepare school personnel to handle crises within the school community.

• Crisis Response and School Violence Prevention Network
  Throughout the school year, Contact sponsors regular meetings on topics related to crisis response and school violence prevention.

• Professional Development
  Contact staff is available for trainings on behavioral and mental health issues.

Contact Community Services has been teaching social and emotional skills to school-aged children since 1979. Our workshops enable participants to confront challenges, identify healthy coping strategies and practice emotional literacy skills in a safe environment. Workshops include:

• Youth Embracing Success (YES!)
  Youth Embracing Success! explores emotional literacy skills through an 8-session series. It is offered at three levels.

• Anger Management and Pro-social Skills (AMPS)
  Anger Management and Pro-Social Skills, designed for 7th - 12th graders, is an eight-session workshop series that teaches skills in anger management, conflict resolution, critical thinking and healthy decision-making.

• Individual, Society and Media Smarts (ISMS)
  This workshop challenges high school students to look at their own attitudes and actions and consider their own responses to the prejudice and discrimination they witness against individuals and groups.

• 21st Century Community Learning Centers
  After-school Programs. Contact Community Services provides assistance in developing linkages between 21st Century after-school program sites and various community agencies and programs.

• Paving "R" Way
  The program provides academic/tutorial assistance, recreation, performing arts, health and mental health services, career exploration, and case management services.

• Way To Go
  Way to Go is a comprehensive youth development and adolescent pregnancy prevention program for more than 50 seventh to twelfth graders from central Syracuse neighborhoods and schools.