Allison Janofsky

Social Worker
Lincoln Orens Middle School and the UPK
Ph: 434-2640

Office Hours:

LOMS - 8:30-3:30

 

The role of the School Social Worker includes: providing group/individual counseling, crisis intervention, student mediations, Committee on Special Education, providing resources and education to parents, and collaboration with faculty & outside agencies. It is a position that covers grades K-8, as well as, the Committee on Preschool Special Education. The School Social Worker collaborates with school psychologists, guidance counselors, school nurses, teachers, parents, students, and administrators, and integrates the information from all of these sources to provide social, emotional, behavioral and adaptive functioning support to the child, the child's family and the school.  The School Social Worker is involved in programs promoting bullying prevention as well as Internet safety.