bryt’s ideal staffing model involves two full-time (2.0 FTE) dedicated staff: a Clinical Coordinator (Masters-level, typically a social worker or LMHC) who leads the direct work of clinical support, care coordination, and family engagement; and an Academic Coordinator (teacher or carefully selected aide/paraprofessional) who works with the student and their teachers to facilitate academic catch-up…
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Students can access staff and sanctuary when needed as they work toward full school reintegration. Because the bryt room is in itself an integral part of the bryt Intervention, the Center’s bryt Team works with each school in our network to identify and provision a multi-purpose space for bryt in the school that serves as a peaceful…
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The Brookline Center’s bryt Team supports schools with hiring staff for the bryt intervention, including promoting open positions on our national listserv and providing sample job descriptions and hiring protocols. Once staff are hired, our District/School Support Specialist provides initial onboarding and orientation to the bryt Network as the first step in our comprehensive technical…
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Grounded in bryt’s program development rubric, bryt District/School Support Specialists organize and facilitate at-least-annual reflection and self-assessment sessions with school teams that function to: Compare the current functioning of their bryt intervention to an established set of program standards Identify and celebrate areas of growth and success in the quality and impact of the school’s…
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bryt works with schools using a structured yet flexible planning process that includes: Opportunities to talk with and visit similar schools already implementing the bryt model Determining need and identifying resources necessary for effective implementation Assets and needs mapping utilizing the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) framework to ensure bryt is aligned with related work…
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Charlene Flynn, LMHC Clinician, Care Coordinator Charlene Flynn, LMHC, is a licensed mental health counselor at the Brookline Community Mental Health Center. Charlene is part of multidisciplinary teams at the Center for Early Detection, Assessment, and Response to Risk (CEDAR) and the Massachusetts Psychosis Access and Triage Hub (M-PATH). She provides comprehensive assessment and evidence-based…
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Amanda Weber, Ph.D Psychological Consultant Amanda M. Weber, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and director of the CEDAR Clinic at the Brookline Community Mental Health Center, where they supervise trainees, conduct psychiatric evaluations for youths and young adults, and provide individual, group, and family therapy. At M-PATH, they provide psychological and diagnostic consultation and collaborate with the M-PATH team…
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Jessica Stern, M.D. Psychiatric Consultant, Co-Founder– M-PATH Jessica Stern, MD is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist with the Brookline Center for Community Mental Health and the CEDAR Clinic, where she is the Medical Director. Dr. Stern provides psychiatric evaluations and individual care to children, adolescents and adults with psychotherapy and psychopharmacology. Dr. Stern provides case…
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