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The Office of Psychology and Preventive Services provides leadership, guidance, and supervision to three sections: School Psychology Services, Preschool Diagnostic Center and Audiology Services, and the Safe and Drug-Free Youth (SDFY) Section. The specialists in these sections offer a wide range of services to promote academic success for all students, to build and maintain safe schools, to support teachers and parents/guardians, and to provide direct services to at-risk students.

		School Psychology Services are available from mental-health professionals in the schools who are committed to maximizing every student’s capacity for academic and social success. School psychologists have specialty training in child development, learning, behavior, and social-emotional adjustment.
		The Preschool Diagnostic Center (PDC) provides comprehensive evaluations to children age two to five suspected of having delays in one or more areas of development, which include adaptive, cognitive, communication, physical, and social or emotional. Services available in the audiology clinic include hearing assessments on preschool and school age children suspected of having hearing loss.
		The Safe and Drug Free Youth Section provides prevention and early intervention programs to students and community members around issues of drug and alcohol use, bullying, and gang violence. For more information click here: