Student Success Center (SSC)

About the Program

Student Success Center is a discipline program serving students as an alternative to expulsion. SSC serves PPS students in grades 6th through 12th who have had a hearing and a hearings officer has deemed that the student is willing to participate in the program and address the behaviors that are getting in the way of student success. We offer a 3 week intensive behavioral skill intervention, Monday through Friday from 8:30am to 12:30pm, which includes:

• Emotional Regulation
• Conflict Regulation
• Healthy Choices
• Decision-making/Goal setting
• Collaborate with school staff and the designated transition support person at the student's school
• Develop a strength-based re-engagement plan which includes recommendations from school based or community-based Mental Health/Drug/Alcohol Assessments
• Facilitate a re-engagement meeting at the home school which welcomes the student back and to go over their re-engagement plan and school's expectations

How does a Student get Referred?

• Delayed Expulsion - As a result of a hearing
• Non-Disciplinary - After all Tier 2 interventions have been exhausted, including mental health/drug and alcohol assessment referrals, a student may be referred on a non-disciplinary basis. Schools must provide data documenting that previous interventions have been unsuccessful or the referral will not be approved. Please submit the attached "Non-Disciplinary Screening Form" to aolivas1@pps.net
• If SSC approves the referral, the school must then meet with the family to discuss SSC as an intervention and sign the "Non-Disciplinary Parent Permission Sheet"

When Do Students Start SSC? 

After SSC staff receives the referral, parent/guardian and student will be contacted and asked to come to the SSC building for a family intake interview. After this meeting, SSC begins new students on Mondays as space permits. SSC starts a new 3-week cycle every Monday.

How do Students get to SSC?

• Bus tickets are provided on a daily basis unless the student has a bus pass.
  • Bus Information:  Trimet Schedule  If  transportation is being provided through a student's IEP, the sending school will coordinate and schedule transportation at least 10 days in advance of their start date of SSC.
• Parents may also transport.
  
  

Student Success Center

Information Materials and Forms

Informational materials:
Information Sheet for Parents
Information Sheet for Parent - Spanish
Disciplinary flow chart
Non disciplinary flow chart

Referral Forms:
SSC School Referral Form
Non-Disciplinary Screen Form
Non-Disciplinary Parental Permission

Questions?
Please call the Student Success Center for more information at 503.916.5494 or Student Success at 503.916.5460.