School Social Workers
School social workers provide services to all Fort Bend ISD schools. Social work services are oriented toward helping students make satisfactory school adjustments and coordinating the efforts of home, school, and community to achieve that goal.

Benefits to Students

• Consult with families to evaluate and determine needs
• Direct the flow of information between the school and the family on behalf of the student
• Coordinate services between school and community agencies
• Provide individual student counseling
• Organize and/or facilitate counseling groups for children with at-risk behavior
• Develop parent training resources
• Assure student/family access to community and district programs
• Develop community resources
• Provide family assessment and intervention
• Provide crisis intervention services
• Provide interventions to increase student attendance

Social workers provide assessments, individual and group counseling, parent conferences, and liaison services between community agencies, families, and schools. Referrals to the social worker are made through the Campus Student Support Team. However, social work consultation is available to other campus staff.

Our Mission
School Social Workers will mobilize available resources, develop new ones, and foster positive relationships among families, schools and communities in order to enhance each child's opportunity to meet his or her life potential.

Grandparent Support Group
An increasing number of grandparents and other adults provide relative placements for children of family members. Doing so often presents circumstances that require specialized parenting skills and intervention. To assist families that are in this situation, Fort Bend ISD's Student Support Services Department social workers will host a monthly support group designed especially for grandparents and other adults who are raising children of their family members.

The support group will give participants the opportunity to share their concerns and obtain information and resources to help with their parenting issues. Meetings will be held the last Thursday of each month, beginning January 27 through April 28, from 6:45 pm to 8:00 pm at Glover Elementary School (1510 Columbia Blue Drive in Missouri City). Families and their children who live within the FBISD community and outlying areas of Fort Bend County are invited to attend. All services are free to participants. Snacks will be provided.

To RSVP or obtain more information about the support group, contact Connie Lee-Sims at 281-795-3528 or Linda Coleman at 281-795-2346.