Comprehensive Behavioral Health Model(CBHM): Integrating Behavioral Health Services in Boston Public Schools

Presenters: Andria Amador & Dr. Ivonne Borrero

Presenter Emails:
andriaamador100@gmail.com
draborrero@hotmail.com

Presenter Bios:
 

Andria Amador, Ed.D., NCSP, is the Senior Director of Behavioral Health Services for the Boston Public Schools (BPS).  Andria has dedicated her career to urban school psychology and began her career as a school psychologist before becoming an administrator.  Andria, along with her staff and partners, have developed the Comprehensive Behavioral Health Model (CBHM).  CBHM is a multi-tiered system of supports designed to support the behavioral health needs of students across a continuum of prevention, early-intervention and intensive services.  Implementation of CBHM requires BPS school psychologists to expand their scope of service delivery to include all NASP Domains of Practice.  Andria has the pleasure of serving as the NASP Delegate  for the Massachusetts School Psychology Association and the NASP Delegate Representative for the Northeast.  She is also the coordinator of the NASP Supervision Interest Group and the immediate past chair of the NASP Practice Model Committee.  Dr. Amador is an adjunct faculty member at Northeastern University.

Dr. Ivonne Borrero is the Assistant Director for the office of Behavioral Health of the Boston Public Schools.  She directly supervises school psychologist in BPS.  She works with teachers, Special Education and EL staff to support their work with English Learners and Special Education students.  As a Bilingual (Spanish-English) School Psychologist, she has gained a vast experience in working with bilingual students in Puerto Rico and Massachusetts.  She has worked for Boston and Newton Public schools and  during the time in Newton she developed programs for ELs/SWD who’s native language was Spanish.  She has supervised graduate level students who were completing their practicum/internship experiences for over 20 years.  She is a member of the EL/SWD Task Force of the BPS School Committee and the EL advisory board for the Department of Education. She currently teaches a graduate level course at Lasell University in the Education Department.

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Dr. Borrero graduated from St. Joseph’s College in Indiana with a BA in Psychology and Education.  She returned to her homeland where she obtained her M.S. and Psy.D. in clinical Psychology at the Carlos Albizu University in San Juan Puerto Rico.  She has two children both graduates of Fenway High School.

Session Description:

CBHM was developed to provide a continuum of behavioral health services for students through improved practices and integrated partnerships.  School psychologists, educators and university students are given professional development to support the creation of safe and supportive schools through the implementation of a variety of evidence-based practices. 

After completing this session, participants will be able to: 

1.   Describe multiple evidenced-based practices for behavioral health services in schools.

2.   Explain the benefits of using universal behavioral health screening tools in an MTSS model. 

3.   Describe key racial equity considerations in the development of an MTSS model.

Accessibility statement: SF State Department of Counseling’s Equity and Justice – Focused Integrated Behavioral Health project welcomes persons with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations (including ASL interpretation) upon request. If you need reasonable accommodations for this event, please make your request by contacting Julie Chronister jchronis@sfsu.edu by Thursday 12/08/22.
 

Continuing Education Information 
 

The Department of Counseling at San Francisco State University, an accredited post-secondary educational institution, maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Real-time attendance at this webinar has been approved for 1.0 hours of continuing education credit for LMFT, LPCC, and/or LCSW as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BPC 4980.54, 4989.34, 4996.22, 4999.76). Please direct concerns about this course or its content to Tiffany O’Shaughnessy, PhD taosh@sfsu.edu
 
 

There is no cost to attend this webinar. Participants licensed in California by the BBS desiring CEU credit for attending this webinar will be directed to sign in at the start of the webinar and will be required to provide an evaluation of the session directly following the webinar and verify their participation and attendance. CEU certificates will be emailed to participants who successfully complete both the sign in and evaluation process.