BUILDING BETTER BONDS WITH FAMILIES

ACCESS is an alliance of 10 Educational Service Centers in Ohio, providing educational services for over 100 years. We serve nearly a quarter of the student population in Ohio representing urban, suburban, and rural communities... The pandemic has taught us how many families lack access to mental health & wellness care. As a culture, mental health is stigmatized, and many people do not have ready access to mental health and wellness resources. We want to change that. By strengthening the school-family relationship, and by recontextualizing that relationship to focus on wellness vs. reports about negative behavior & grades, we seek to redefine how at-risk & disengaged families relate to the school community overall. Through providing school personnel resources, which may include talk tracks, positive reinforcement, and SEL Ohio Collaborative for Educating Remotely and strategies/resources, we want families to view school as one place to receive new kinds of support amidst trying times,..