Dr Heidi Ellis:

Unfortunately although school based services are one of the best ways of increasing access for immigrant and refugee students the process of setting up services in a school can be complicated.  Issues such as billing/reimbursement, space, parent involvement, and access to students during the school day will need to be worked out.  That said I encourage you to begin conversations between service agencies (such as CVT) and schools to see if it could be done.  It may be helpful to keep in mind how such a partnership could help both agencies; when done right school-based services can solve problems faced by service agencies (the no-show rate drops way off) and schools (students are able to learn better when their mental health problems are being addressed).