The Brookline Center’s bryt Team will work with you to customize the bryt model based on the existing assets, resources, and needs of your school. Planning and implementation happen on the time frame that works best for the school.
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Fundamental to the bryt Model is the development of an overall Student Support Plan for each participating student, focused on fully integrating each student back into full participation in school environment after an extended absence and/or a period of falling significantly behind in association with a mental health disruption. Each individualized Student Support Plan integrates…
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For information about bringing bryt to your Massachusetts school(s): Katherine Houle, Associate Director for District and School Support katherinehoule@brooklinecenter.org For information about bringing bryt to schools/districts outside of Massachusetts, and/or for general inquiries about bryt: Paul Hyry-Dermith, Director paul_hyry-dermith@brooklinecenter.org / 413-219-8587 For information about professional development, consultation, and/or special projects: Courtney Tucker, Associate Director for…
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bryt stands at the intersection of education, mental health, and youth development in order to transform the way schools approach Tier 3 supports to students whose learning has been disrupted due to a mental health challenge. With deep knowledge of schools backed by equally deep roots in community mental health, bryt integrates field-specific knowledge with frontline…
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Learn more about The Brookline Center. Whether we’re supporting a teen in crisis or helping a family get back on its feet, The Brookline Center’s services stabilize and transform thousands of lives each year. Generous donors make this possible. Each gift moves us closer to a day when every adult and child in our community…
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Learn more about The Brookline Center. Whether we’re supporting a teen in crisis or helping a family get back on its feet, The Brookline Center’s services stabilize and transform thousands of lives each year. Generous donors make this possible. Each gift moves us closer to a day when every adult and child in our community…
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Learn more about The Brookline Center. Whether we’re supporting a teen in crisis or helping a family get back on its feet, The Brookline Center’s services stabilize and transform thousands of lives each year. Generous donors make this possible. Each gift moves us closer to a day when every adult and child in our community…
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The Brookline Center’s bryt Team works with schools to implement intensive interventions based in the signature bryt Model for intensive and comprehensive support for youth who have fallen behind academically in association with a mental health disruption. The bryt Intervention integrates holistic supports including clinically informed direct care, academic case management, family support, and integrated…
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The bryt model is grounded in the recognition that communication with, and support for, a student’s family is a core element of supporting that student—a “need to have” rather than a “nice to have.” This belief is so essential to us that family engagement is the only aspect of bryt to which we have assigned…
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