Districts & SchoolsVentura County · Agricultural Coastal Plain
Rio School District
Rio volunteered at all three sites and has moved faster operationally than any other LEA in the cohort: a full-team strategy session on September 2, individual site planning meetings across the following two weeks, named counselor champions at every site receiving $2,000 stipends, and a target population confirmed at each. The district’s stated interest is in seeing whether a rubric-scored instrument tells it something Panorama does not.
Profile
Deliverable 1, Element 5 · organizational profile
- Regional Context
- Agricultural community on the Oxnard plain in Ventura County. The cohort’s only Ventura member and its only coastal-agricultural context.
- Populations Served
- 5,208 students district-wide; 1,881 at the three participating sites. Across those three, socioeconomic disadvantage runs 54.9–81.0%, English learners 11.2–40.0%, students with disabilities 9.3–20.2%. All three are Title I schoolwide.
- Funding Model
- LCFF with a concentration grant, per the 2026–27 LCAP. Not Basic Aid.
- Board-Adopted BH Investment
- $2,859,585 per year under LCAP Action 3.5, “Health & Wellness: Student Services”, LEA-wide and contributing to increased or improved services for English learners, foster youth and low-income students.
- County BH Relationship
- Ventura County Office of Education operates wellness centers at all nine Rio schools, including the three participating sites, under its CYBHI School-Linked Partnership and Capacity Grant. Ventura County Behavioral Health is the county partner.
- BHSSA / MHSSA Standing
- Ventura’s MHSSA grant summary names five wellness-center districts, and VCOE operates centers at all nine Rio schools. Public sources record the centers without stating whether they draw MHSSA or general MHSA dollars.
- CYBHI Fee Schedule
- Not listed on the Cohort 1–4 or Cohort 5 rosters and not on the reimbursement list. Documented CYBHI connection is the county capacity grant, plus two CYBHI-funded associates working toward licensure on district staff.
- BH Staffing (District)
- 4 mental health and wellness clinicians · 13 counselors · 5 parent liaisons · 2 CYBHI-funded associates in licensure pathway.
- Existing Screening
- Panorama, Level 1, districtwide. Rio Vista Middle additionally ran an Impacter Pathway pilot in March 2026.
- SIS And Access
- “Q” (Equitus Solutions) · Clever single sign-on live districtwide · 1:1 Chromebooks in grades 3 to 5.
- Consent Model
- Informational notice with opt-out, districtwide. District rationale: this is a skills-based assessment rather than a mental health survey, and community concern is low.
Board-Adopted LCAP Investment
$2,859,585 · Action 3.5 Health & Wellness: Student Services
2026–27 LCAP, Action 3.5
The action in Rio SD’s board-adopted Local Control and Accountability Plan that funds behavioral health. The figure is quoted from the adopted plan and cites the action number. This is district investment, not program spending.
Participating Schools
3 sites · readiness assessment complete at each · all three agreements executed