The posting
Prevention and Wellness Coordinator
Job Description • Connected Care Initiative
Department: Student Services Reports to: Assistant Superintendent Assignment: District-assigned schools and grade levels
Funding: Grant-funded through the Connected Care initiative/Health Foundation of La Porte - 3 year
Position purpose
Strengthen student mental health, prevent substance use, and connect students and families with timely support through prevention education, targeted interventions, and coordinated referrals within the district’s Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). Collaborate with school support teams, Open Door Adolescent Health Center (ODAHC), and community partners.
Essential responsibilities
- Prevention & Wellness Campaigns: Deliver evidence-based lessons and schoolwide initiatives focusing on substance use prevention, mental health coping, and decision-making skills.
- Early Identification & Student Support: Track student wellness data (via WellCheq) and participate in MTSS team meetings to connect at-risk youth with early support.
- Targeted Interventions: Facilitate small-group and 1-on-1 programs (such as INDEPTH for nicotine/THC referrals) to address substance use and improve school connectedness.
- Mentoring & Belonging: Lead peer and near-age mentoring programs and help launch student-led initiatives like Hope Squad.
- Referral & Navigation Services: Manage referrals and warm handoffs to community partners (e.g., ODAHC) while helping families navigate insurance, transportation, and language barriers.
- Community & Family Engagement: Organize workshops, wellness events, and resource campaigns (e.g., Talk. They Hear You.) to engage families and community partners.
- Staff Professional Development: Help organize professional development on trauma-informed practices, early warning signs, suicide prevention, de-escalation, and educator wellness.
- Data & Grant Management: Maintain program records in PowerSchool/NextPath, analyze intervention trends, and assist with grant reporting and program sustainability.
Qualifications
Recommended for district review; the grant does not establish required degrees, licenses, or minimum years of experience.
Recommended minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in education, social work, public health, psychology, counseling, human services, or a related field required; master’s degree preferred. Experience supporting school-age youth in schools, prevention, behavioral health, youth development, or family services.
- Ability to deliver lessons and groups, build relationships with diverse students and families, collaborate with providers, organize programming across schools, manage referral follow-up, maintain confidential records, and use data for improvement.
- Complete required curriculum, intervention, mentoring, and safety training and meet district employment and background-check requirements.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with MTSS, substance use prevention, family engagement, care navigation, or school-based mental health partnerships; knowledge of adolescent development, trauma-informed and culturally responsive practices, attendance supports, and community resources.
- Experience with student information systems, intervention tracking, digital wellness tools, and program evaluation. Relevant professional licensure or certification preferred when applicable to the approved scope.
Professional scope and working conditions
Provide prevention education, nonclinical support, and service coordination. Clinical assessment, diagnosis, therapy, medical care, and clinical crisis intervention remain with appropriately licensed providers. Follow district emergency and reporting procedures and promptly refer urgent concerns to designated personnel or emergency resources.
Work includes instruction, group facilitation, meetings, documentation, travel among district locations, and occasional scheduled evening events or professional learning. Duties are performed with reasonable accommodations as applicable.
Performance evaluation
The designated supervisor evaluates performance under district procedures using prevention delivery and fidelity, participation and intervention completion, referral follow-through, resolution of access barriers, family and staff engagement, documentation, and collaborative improvement. Student and family feedback, learning measures, and outcome trends inform program review.
Employment terms for district confirmation
The grant proposes three coordinators. MCAS will establish salary, benefits, work calendar, hours, employment classification, evaluation procedures, supervision, and assignments. Continued employment is subject to district terms and available funding; the grant does not guarantee permanent positions.



