Strengthening School and ICF Collaboration

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Activities

Youth Profile Information

When collaborating across multiple providers and environments, it is critical that information be shared about the youth and how to best support the youth. Click each topic below to review information to communicate between partners. Consider how you share this information with all team members. Need a tool to help share this information with your team? Check out the All About Me Template and All About Me Guidance Document in the download section on this page.

Strengths
Skills
Interests

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  • Spectrum of Strengths! Includes physical, emotional, academic, social, creative talents and many others!
  • Pay attention to what the youth chooses to do in their free time – this can be a clue to areas of interest.
  • Fascinations and special interests are often a strength and important for everyone to recognize.

Communication

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  • Many youth use multiple ways to communicate. Share the different modes of communication used and the interventions that assist the youth with communicating effectively.
  • Verbal communication is only one method of communicating. Facial expressions, body language, visual supports, gestures, and sign language are also often used to communicate.

Feeling Safe
and
Regulated

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  • Identify and implement proactive supports that help keep the youth feeling safe and regulated.
  • Explain what others can do to help when the youth does not feel safe and is becoming dysregulated.
  • Describe how the youth looks or acts when becoming dysregulated.

Challenges
Goals

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  • Identify areas of weakness or need.
  • Identify how others may best support those challenges.
  • Share what goals the youth is working on so all team members can support progress in those areas.

Who Is On The Team?

Consider the prompt below before clicking to reveal roles.

  • Teachers – General Education and Special Education
  • Classroom Aides
  • Direct Support Professionals
  • Transportation Staff
  • Therapists (Occupational, Physical, Speech)
  • House Managers
  • Agency Directors
  • Building Principals
  • Special Education Supervisors and Directors
  • Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Mental Health Counselors
  • Medical and Nursing Professionals
  • Social Workers

Need a tool to help organize team contact information? Check out the School and Residential Facility Communication Contacts Template in the download section on this page.

Downloads

All About Me Template and Guidance

Use the All About Me Template and Guidance documents to summarize important information about a youth to share with team members.

Download All About Me Template

Download All About Me Guidance Document

School and Residential Facility Communication Contacts Template

Use the School and Residential Facility Communication Contacts Template to gather and share contact information for multiple team members supporting the youth in both the residential and school settings.

Download School and Residential Facility Communication Contacts Template