Step 1. Everybody Matters cares about your students!

We believe all of the kiddos belong to all of us and we are eager to help!

Step 2: We select and train highly qualified social work, counseling, or psychology college interns in the Everybody Matters Model and prepare them to meet one-on-one or in groups with your students to improve your students’ overall sense of well-being.

Our Model is proven and evidence-based. Check out our white paper here.

Step 3: You hear about Everybody Matters and say, YES YES YES, help our students! 

We meet up - we shake hands - and we’re on the way to your students’ success. 

Step 4: You select the schools in which you’d like us to work.

Interns are trained to support students K-12.

Step 5: The staff at those schools watch a quick 6 minute video to learn about how Everybody Matters collaborates with the teachers. 

Check out the video here!

Step 6: Your staff select students who they know would benefit from one-on-one or group social emotional support.

Your staff then makes an electronic referral, completes a short survey, and helps us know the best way to get in touch with the student’s parents to obtain permission to meet with their child. If we are able to get an electronic parent permission form signed, your staff no longer has to “do anything.” If we need to send a paper permission form home, your staff will need to help us with that. 

Step 7: The student is matched with an intern and the intern contacts the teacher to schedule a consistent time each week to meet with the child.

Students are customarily matched with an intern within a week. The intern will see the child for 30 minutes each week for an average of 8 weeks. This balances the need for the student to be in the classroom while simultaneously meeting their coping and social needs.

Step 8: The interns begin the weekly meetings, collecting weekly data from the students. The teachers happily send the child for their meetings each week.

The intern receives one hour of dedicated supervision each week during which their supervisor oversees the work and suggests appropriate interventions. Evaluation occurs on an ongoing basis and results in the modification of strategies as needed.

Step 9: The interns continue their weekly meetings and keep the teachers informed of progress and the skills the student is working on.

Teachers and parents complete evaluations at the beginning of the meetings and at the end of their first 8 weeks. Everybody Matters sends the school bi-weekly School Update Reports to let you know what coping skills your students are using.

Step 10: The students start to feel better - their behavior improves - there is sometimes a teeny bit of “relapse” - the student continues to get better - at the end of eight weeks your student “graduates” and everybody cheers!

The student’s overall experience is evaluated, data is compiled, and reports are generated to be shared with each Everybody Matters school and District at the end of each semester.