Student Success Center (SSC)
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About the Program
The Student Success Center is an intensive skills intervention program that disproportionately serves historically underrepresented students in PPS who have been referred for expulsion. The Student Success Program aims to disrupt racialized exclusionary practices through building authentic relationships, skill acquisition in social emotional learning, advocacy, and role-modeling racial equity.
SSC serves PPS students in grades 6th through 12th who have had a hearing and a hearings officer has deemed that the student is willing to participate in the program and address the behaviors that are getting in the way of student success.
The program offers a 3-week intensive behavioral skill intervention, Monday through Friday from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm, which includes:
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- Emotional Regulation
- Conflict Regulation
- Healthy Choices
- Decision-making/Goal setting
- Collaborate with school staff and the designated transition support person at the student's school
- Develop a strength-based re-engagement plan which includes recommendations from school-based or community-based Mental Health/Drug/Alcohol Assessments
- Facilitate a re-engagement meeting at the home school which welcomes the student back and to go over their re-engagement plan and school's expectations
Have a student needing to attend SSC?
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How does a Student get Referred to SSC?
- Delayed Expulsion: As a result of a hearing once this is determined build admin need to complete an SSC School Referral form
- Non-Disciplinary: After all Tier 2 interventions have been exhausted, including mental health/drug and alcohol assessment referrals, a student may be referred on a non-disciplinary basis. Schools must provide data documenting that previous interventions have been unsuccessful or the referral will not be approved. Please submit the below "Non-Disciplinary Screening Form" to mphilli1@pps.net.
If SSC approves the referral, the school must then meet with the family to discuss SSC as an intervention and sign the "Non-Disciplinary Parent Permission Sheet"
Referral Forms:
SSC School Referral Form
Non-Disciplinary Screen Form- Googledoc, PDF
Non-Disciplinary Parental Permission- Googledoc, PDF -
When Do Students Start SSC?
After SSC staff receives the referral, parent/guardian and student will be contacted and asked to come to the SSC building for a family intake interview. After this meeting, SSC begins new students on Mondays as space permits. SSC starts a new 3-week cycle every Monday.
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How do Students get to SSC?
- Bus tickets are provided on a daily basis unless the student has a bus pass.
- Bus Information: (Trimet Schedule) If transportation is being provided through a student's IEP, the sending school will coordinate and schedule transportation at least 10 days in advance of their start date of SSC.
- Parents may also transport.
- Bus tickets are provided on a daily basis unless the student has a bus pass.
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Questions?
Please call the Student Success Center for more information at 503.916.5494 or Student Success at 503.916.5460.