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Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA)

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Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA)

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It is the SELPA’s responsibility to assure programs are available for all students with disabilities, from birth until age 22. The SELPA must see that programs provide any needed services for any student with an exceptional need, and to assist in inter-SELPA placements, provide technical assistance, and administrative support for the many requirements of the new laws and requirements being placed on districts.

Gaines, Julianna  661-636-4805

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The Dream Center & Coffee House focuses on improving the conditions and life outcomes for foster youth by utilizing a one-stop approach to informal and formal support services. The Center is an easily accessible, inviting foster youth resource center for comprehensive, integrated services and unique job training.

Williams, Curt

661-636-XXXX

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The Division of Special Education collaborates with districts and families to educate and deliver services to students with special needs by providing innovative approaches to education, individualized programs, and preparation for successful citizenship

Cortez, Brian
661-636-4789

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Homeless Education Assistance *The McKinney-Vento Act ensures that each homeless child and youth has equal access to (1) the same free, appropriate public education as other children and youth, and (2) the services that they need to enable them to meet the same challenging student academic achievement standards to which all students are held.

Hodgson, Jason

661-636-4623

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Safe Schools manages a statewide grant to develop a School/Law Enforcement Partnership and coordinate training in Safe Schools Planning, Crisis Response Planning, and Bullying Prevention and Intervention in 11 regions throughout California.

*Locally, it provides workshops in those and other topics related to school safety in Region 8, comprising Kern, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties.

Roberts, Justin

661-852-5657

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Project 180 is a gang prevention partnership dedicated to working with at-risk youth and families in Kern County, California by helping them make better decisions through caring adult mentoring relationships, after-school programs, youth development, gang diversion programs, service learning, job skills training, parenting skill building, and teaching life skills.

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661-852-5661

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California Tobacco Control Program (CTCP)

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California Tobacco Control Program (CTCP)

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KCSOS has a partnership with the Kern County Public Health Department and receives funding from the California Tobacco Control Program through Prop. 99 voter approved tobacco tax designed to reduce youth access to tobacco products and address second-hand smoke exposure.

Keyes, Kevin,

661-852-5665

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A 10 to16-week parent training program designed specifically for parents of strong-willed or out-of-control adolescent children.

*The curriculum teaches concrete identification, prevention, and intervention strategies for the most destructive of adolescent behaviors (poor school attendance and performance, alcohol and other drug use, gangs, runaways, and violent teens).

Salvador, Arias,

661-852-5661

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TUPE is a comprehensive Tobacco-Use Prevention Education project built upon a foundation of almost 20 years of county-wide collaboration with schools, community-based agencies and partners focused on health and effective tobacco use prevention.

*This provides students in grades 6-12 with the knowledge and skills that will enable them to be tobacco-free.

*Secondarily, the project focuses on the development of Kern County’s next generation of tobacco-free advocates who represent a diverse cross section of our priority populations.

KCSOS partners with the American Lung Association in California (ALA) to provide direct cessation support services at targeted sites that do not have a counselor or school nurse or staff trained in cessation.

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661-852-5661

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*The School/Law Enforcement Partnership (SLEP) is a partnership between the California Department of Justice and the Department of Education. SLEP provides trainings and resources for school safety issues.

*California Education Code 32280-32289 requires that all schools in the state develop and implement a comprehensive school safety plan based upon individual assessments of school sites.

*Schools must review and update plans by March 1st of every year and must report the status of the comprehensive school safety plan on the school accountability report card by July of every year.

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The Kern SAP project provides school-based screening, early identification of behaviors of concern and then provides support to students and families through prevention activities, early intervention, referral and support for students that will address problems of substance abuse, violence, truancy and other issues potentially related to school failure.

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Priority 1: Basic (Conditions of Learning)

Rate of teacher misassignment as relates to:

Student access to standards-aligned instructional materials as relates to:

Facilities in good repair as relates to:

Priority 2: State Standards (Conditions of Learning)

Implementation of academic content and performance standards adopted by the state board for all pupils, including English learners as relates to:

Priority 3: Parental Involvement (Engagement)

Efforts to seek parent input in decision making, promotion of parent participation in programs for unduplicated pupils and special need subgroups as relates to:

Priority 4: Pupil Achievement (Pupil Outcomes)

Performance on standardized tests, share of pupils that are college and career ready, share of English learners that become English proficient, English learner reclassification rate, share of pupils that pass Advanced Placement exams with 3 or higher, share of pupils determined prepared for college by the Early Assessment Program as relates to:

Priority 5: Pupil Engagement (Engagement)

School attendance rates, chronic absenteeism rates, middle school dropout rates, high school dropout rates, high school graduations rates as relates to:

Priority 6: School Climate (Engagement)

Pupil suspension rates, pupil expulsion rates, other local measures including surveys of pupils, parents and teachers on the sense of safety and school connectedness as relates to:

Priority 7: Course Access (Conditions of Learning)

Pupil enrollment in a broad course of study that includes all of the subject areas described in Education Code Section 51210 and subdivisions (a) to (i), inclusive, of Section 51220, as applicable, as relates to:

Priority 8: Other Pupil Outcomes (Pupil Outcomes)

Pupil outcomes in the subject areas described in Education Code Section 51210 and subdivisions (a) to (i), inclusive, of Education Code Section 51220, as applicable as relates to:

Priority 9: Expelled Pupils - COEs Only (Conditions of Learning)

Coordination of instruction of expelled pupils pursuant to Education Code Section 48926 as relates to:

Priority 10: Foster Youth - COEs Only (Conditions of Learning)

Coordination of services, including working with the county child welfare agency to share information, responding to the needs of the juvenile court system, and ensuring transfer of health and education records as relates to:

Last Reviewed: Thursday, February 6, 2020

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