2 school adjustment counselor jobs found in Amherst

Job Description Overview: The ARPS Family Center Liaison serves as a districtwide resource to strengthen family engagement, improve equity of access, and remove barriers that interfere with students' academic success and overall wellbeing. This position supports families across all schools-PreK-12-by providing guidance on navigating the school system, connecting families to essential services, and fostering strong home-school partnerships. Special attention is given to supporting new families, multilingual families, and those experiencing poverty, housing instability, trauma, or immigration-related challenges. The ARPS Family Center Liaison is responsible for providing Tier 1, 2, and 3 interventions for students and families to foster a supportive school experience. This role is essential in promoting student engagement, addressing chronic absenteeism, and collaborating with building leaders on various student and family-focused initiatives. This is a position in the...

Job Description The Amherst Public Schools is seeking a full time, permanent Special Education Program Coordinator to provide strong, on-site leadership for two of our district specialized programs, AIMS and Building Blocks, currently at Fort River Elementary School. These inclusion based programs support students with one or more of the following: autism (level 1 & 2), attention/focus, academic, social, emotional, and/or behavioral challenges and who require programmatic support throughout the school day. The program staff includes special education teachers, counselor/psychologist, related service providers and para educators. This position may also include providing informal consultation to the building administration and other elementary schools. The following responsibilities, skills, training and experience include but are not limited to: Program leadership, development, design and monitoring Collaboration with building and central office administrators...