Social, Emotional & Behavioral Health

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Learning Supports

Heartland AEA provides training, technical assistance and resources in a variety of research-based learning supports content areas. Our purpose is to assist school personnel in implementing learning supports that alleviate barriers to learning and teaching, increase school connectedness and promote healthy development, which will ultimately result in increased student achievement and success for all students.

Heartland AEA’s Learning Supports Vision

It is Heartland AEA’s initiative to provide ALL children and youth within the Heartland AEA service area safe, healthy learning environments where adults:

  • Form partnerships: Build positive relationships with students and partner with families and communities to support students
  • Plan proactively: Clearly define plans to respond to a variety of school and student needs – including crises
  • Match instruction: Use data to match appropriate levels of instruction and support for each student
  • Teach expectations: Identify and proactively teach expectations
  • Acknowledge successes: Acknowledge and reinforce students for doing well
  • Correct errors: Implement a consistent, corrective consequence system

Important Contacts

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Jadie Boens

Jadie Boens

  • Director of Social, Emotional & Behavioral Health Services

Supervision of Shelter Care Educational Program

Aimee Schuppe

Aimee Schuppe

  • Social, Emotional & Behavioral Health Regional Lead/School Psychologist

Education: Bachelor’s degree, family studies; Educational specialist degree, school psychology

Experience: School psychologist, Social, emotional & behavioral health lead
Joined Heartland AEA in 2015

Expertise: Certified trainer for CPI, Youth Mental Health First Aid and Restorative Practices; MTSS for SEBH; co-developed Heartland AEA’s Critical Incident Response Plan & Emergency Reunification Plan

Professional affiliations: Nationally-Certified School Psychologist

How I’ve made an impact: In collaboration with a district’s elementary administration, leadership team and fellow AEA colleagues, I provided support to identify social social-emotional system needs to inform professional learning and to create the Trauma-Informed Schools framework they currently use.

 

Stacey Warren

Stacey Warren

  • Social, Emotional & Behavioral Health Regional Lead

Education: Bachelor’s degree, psychology; Master’s degree, social work

Experience: Extensive experience in the mental health field: diagnosis, treatment and mental health systems work including as a school social worker and a social, emotional & behavioral health regional lead. I serve as a primary trainer for Mental Health Crisis Protocol; as support and follow-up for Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines (CSTAG) coaching and consultation; as a primary trainer for Critical Incident Point Person responses; and as a primary trainer and on the leadership team for Heartland AEA’s Emergency Reunification, Response & Recovery Team.
Joined Heartland AEA in 2014

Expertise: Licensed as a clinical-level social worker with expertise in the area of mental health; trainer for Mental Health Crisis Protocol, Youth Mental Health First Aid, PBIS and Building Strong Brains; trauma-informed schools; evidence-based classroom practices; systems of support for SEBH including support to leadership teams for data reviews; needs assessments; early warning systems and gap analysis; support and coaching for leadership teams and student support teams made up of school counselors, school-based mental health providers, school nurses, etc.; mental health consultation; support for mental health crisis and student safety

Professional affiliations: Iowa School Social Work Association, 2023 Iowa School Social Worker of the Year

How I make an impact: I roll up my sleeves, meet districts where they are, build long-term relationships and bring evidence-based resources and compassion to support the very difficult work of mental health crises, school threats, critical incident responses and systems support.

Social, Emotional & Behavioral Health