Welcome To Child Welfare, Attendance, and Safety
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The aspiration of the Child Welfare, Attendance and Safety Department is to promote student success. We believe in the fundamental principal of equity and fair treatment of all Pasadena Unified School District students. All students will be provided fair access and opportunity to comprehensive services that meet their needs. We strive to create a culture of collaboration by engaging community stakeholders, families, students, and staff in strategically addressing the barriers to student success.
Through communication, collaboration, and engagement, our team of experienced professionals deliver student, family and community services, maximizing school achievement for students at all levels of learning and overcoming the academic, social, emotional, or physical barriers which may impede student success.
We focus on areas of:
- Alternative Education Placement Committee
- ALternative to Suspension Program
- Attendance and Truancy
- Behavior Intervention
- Behavior RTI: Response to Intervention
- Bullying Prevention
- CWAS Mental Health Crisis Response Team
- Discipline Guidelines - Suspension, Expulsion, and Alternative to Suspension & Expulsion
- Foster Youth Community Liaison
- Foster Youth Consortium
- Foster Youth Sensitivity Training
- Mandated Child Abuse Reporting Training
- Master's in Social Work Intern Program
- Mental Health Consortium
- Mental Health Services
- Mentoring/Mentors for L.I.F.E.
- Restorative Justice Practices
- Section 504 Plan
- SARB (School Attendance Review Board)
- SART (School Attendance Review Team)
- Scholars Transitioning and Realizing Success (STARS)
- School Safety
- Social Emotional Supports
- PUSD Clinical Social Workers
- For more information contact CWAS
All Healthy Kids Surveys can be found on the following link: http://chks.wested.org/administer/download/
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The Office of Child Welfare, Attendance, and Safety is very excited to announce that Pasadena Unified School District will be participating in The Great Kindness Challenge! January 27th to February 1st! This is a nation-wide initiative to combat bullying and promote a climate of kindness at school. For more information on the intiative, please click HERE.
Immigration Protection
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In December 2016, the Pasadena Unified Board of Education joined California educational institutions in approving the resolution 2386 “Safe Zones for Students Threatened by Immigration Enforcement.” Our schools will continue to be the anchors of our neighborhoods, where all students and their families are welcomed, valued, and supported. We will continue to collaborate with each other and our partners to achieve academic excellence, celebrate our strengths and cultural diversity.
Contacts
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Olga Vanessa Torres
CWAS Coordinator
626.396.3600 ext. 88231Lara Choulakian
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
626.396.3600 ext. 88233Paul-Michael Dalton
Child Welfare Attendance and Safety Counselor
626.396.3600 ext. 88236Franchesca Ocasio
Foster Youth Liaison
626.396.3600 ext. 88248Lloyd Dabasol
Attendance Specialist
626.396.3600 ext. 88232Giovanni Ayala
CWAS Intervention Specialist
626.396.3600 ext. 88230Elsa Gutierrez
CWAS Alternative to Suspension
Academic Intervention Teacher
626.396.3600 ext. 88230Ana Gonzalez
CWAS Community Liaison Specialist
626.396.3600 ext. 88237Randel Johnson
CWAS Behavioral Specialist
626.396.3600 ext. 88230Hermine Khachikyan
Clinical Social Worker
626.396.3600 ext. 40504Luisana Marquez
Clinical Social Worker
626.396.3600 ext. 40592Susana Arellano
CWAS Project Aide
626.396.3600 ext. 88230Julia Sahakian
CWAS Student Worker
626.396.3600 ext. 88230
For Appointments
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Pease call: 626.396.3609
Room: 206