Purpose And Scope

This plan describes how the Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE) and project partners will provide training, technical assistance, coaching, and implementation support to six participating local educational agencies (LEAs) and eighteen participating schools between July 1, 2026 and June 30, 2028.

Support is organized around a single practical question: what does each school and LEA need in order to collect behavioral health information from students, understand what it shows, and use it in the decisions they are already making about student support, programs, and resources.

The answer differs by site. The eighteen schools vary in size, staffing, existing behavioral health programming, data practice, and the structures available for professional learning. Deliverable 1 recorded those conditions during recruitment and readiness review. This plan describes a common set of supports and a consistent process for deciding which of them each LEA and school receives.

Who Provides The Support

SCCOE is the prime contractor to the Behavioral Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission and leads the consortium. SCCOE coordinates the project, holds the relationships with participating LEAs, convenes the cohort, supports the identification of behavioral health champions, and connects this work to existing county behavioral health initiatives.

Four subcontractors deliver alongside SCCOE. Impacter Pathway leads platform deployment, student information system integration, screening implementation, data interpretation support, and the school and LEA capacity building described in Activity 3.3. Deveau Burr Group leads the Activity 3.3 curriculum, co-leads onsite training and ongoing technical assistance, and leads the system leadership, governance, and sustainability work with county and state partners. Breaking Barriers California supports learning collaboratives and communities of practice and provides expertise on the CYBHI fee schedule, privacy law, and scope of practice. Applied Survey Research is the project evaluator and advises on how the effectiveness of technical assistance is measured. Stanford University School of Medicine contributes research and data governance expertise.

Each element below names the activities it rests on, so the tasks, owners, and timelines the Commission requires can be read against the implementation workplan.

Behavioral Health Champions

Behavioral health champions are the primary partners for this work. Support is planned with them.

Each participating LEA designates at least one behavioral health champion, and participating schools have designated behavioral health champion capacity as well. The structure may include several champions, depending on local staffing and implementation needs.

The role is a function, not a standardized job title. Responsibilities, authority, technical expertise, and influence differ across LEAs and schools. At an LEA a champion may be a director of student services, a district social worker, a behavioral health or wellness lead, or another staff member responsible for implementation and data use. At a school the role may sit with a counselor, an assistant principal, a wellness coordinator, a school social worker, a psychologist, or an MTSS lead.

How This Plan Is Organized

The nine required elements of Exhibit A are the sections of this plan, in the order the agreement states them. Within each element the plan describes the work, who carries it, when it occurs, how it is adapted locally, and what evidence shows it is working. Not every category appears under every element.

Element 1 establishes five support channels, and the rest of the plan uses those names: Strategic Planning, Professional Development, In-Field Coaching And Application To Practice, Technical And Platform Support, and Quarterly Convenings.

One principle recurs and is stated once here. Professional learning takes place inside structures that already exist. Where a school already convenes an MTSS team, a professional learning community, an instructional leadership team, or a staff meeting, that is where behavioral health information is introduced. The same applies at the LEA, where district MTSS meetings, principal meetings, and student services leadership meetings already bring the right people together. Where no appropriate structure exists, SCCOE and project partners will help the LEA or school establish one.