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SDD18: Don’t Do This Alone: How To Identify Concerning Behaviors Using ACC Resources
Hours: 1.3
Sometimes students exhibit behaviors that raise serious concerns about their well-being, stability, or potential for harming themselves or others. ACC CARES (Campus Assessment, Response, Evaluation and Support) are teams of professionals promoting the health and safety of the campus communities. CARES team members are dedicated to the prevention, early intervention and response to distressing, threatening and disruptive behaviors. Learn how to identify when students can and should be referred to CARES and how this multidisciplinary team helps create a healthy and safe environment for the ACC college community by coordinating resources and support plans for students of concern.
This presentation will review when and how to refer a concerning student to the CARES teams of each ACC Region before a situation becomes critical or potentially dangerous and will include scenarios for discussion.
A participant in this workshop will walk away with:
1. An understanding of what kinds of concerning student behaviors can be referred to the ACC CARES Behavioral Intervention Teams.
2. An understanding of what kinds of concerning student behaviors should be directly referred to emergency services/campus police.
3. An understanding for how to make a referral to CARES and a template for making referrals via email.
4. Resource guide for addressing concerning student behaviors, including campus police contact, counseling services, and student conduct.
Mary Forrest-Wright, MA, LPC-S, LMFT-S
Mary Forrest-Wright is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist-Supervisor and Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor and joined ACC as an Associate Professor/Counselor at Eastview Campus in 2015. Since joining ACC she has worked as a counselor, served on the campus CARES behavioral intervention team, served as 2016/2017 EVC Faculty Senate Representative, as member of the Counseling Unit Work Group and joined the District Counseling Team Nov. 2016. Before joining ACC, she spent 20 years in the mental health field with clinical expertise areas that include mood disorders, learning disabilities, couples therapy, PTSD, parent-child conflict, crisis intervention, and traumatic brain injury. She has worked in a multitude of clinical settings including inpatient care, outpatient private practice with adults and children, as an embedded brigade counselor with the military, and as a readjustment counselor for combat veterans and their families for the Veteran’s Healthcare Administration. She also supervises LMFT-A and LPC-I interns. Mary holds a B.A. in Psychology/Sociology from Stephen F. Austin State University and a M.A. in Counseling/Marriage and Family Therapy from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio.
Julie Cuellar Reck, MA, LPC-S
Julie Reck is Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor with over 14 years of counseling experience working in school-based settings with children, teens, and adults. She began working at Austin Community College in 2009 as a Support Center Specialist at the South Austin Campus assisting first-time in college & single parents transitioning to college life prior to becoming a Counselor/Associate Professor in 2012. Julie serves on the Assessment & Advising Committee, the Student Money Management Advisory Board, and teaches in the Student Development Department. In addition, she finds value in working with those seeking licensure as Professional Counselor Interns in private practice as they discover their talent and intuition as new counselors to the field. Julie graduated from St. Edward’s University with a BA in Psychology and an MA in Counseling, and she holds her licensure with the State of Texas.
Andrew Silver, LPC, LCDC
Andrew began working as a Counselor/Assistant Professor at Austin Community College in October 2014. Prior to ACC, he provided short and long term counseling to people suffering from comorbid issues that involve addiction, depression, bereavement and anxiety. He also worked with convicted felons, families with Child Protective Services involvement, facilitated adult therapy groups and coordinated treatment with United States probation officers and people in the county judicial system.
Currently Andrew represents the ACC Counseling Department as Chair and has presented to ACC Leadership Teams on Guided Pathways as well as on counseling competencies and best practices. As an ACC counselor, Andrew has specialized clinical trainings that aids his work with students, including the SIVRA-35 Threat Assessment, Social Media Threat Assessment, Breaking Down Silos in Case Management, Alcohol, Sexual Assault & Sexual Violence: Strategies for Prevention & Education, the Subtle Substance Abuse Screening, and Open Source Intelligence.
Andrew earned his BME in Music Education at Northwestern State University and holds both an MA in Music Performance from Texas State and an MA in Professional Counseling at Texas State University. |
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