Student Support Services

We recognize that each student is unique, with their own strengths and challenges. We offer tailored support to address individual needs. By understanding of each student's situation, we can customize our teaching to provide targeted intervention, remediation, and accommodation as needed. Our education and support teams work together creating a multi-tiered system of support, to provide early effective intervention to students who are having difficulty meeting academic benchmarks. We use data to pinpoint students who need help, provide interventions, and closely monitor their progress.

Based on the student’s response to these targeted interventions, they may be formally evaluated to determine if there is a specific learning or other disability present. If so, they will receive further assistance, increased support, remediation and accommodations.

Each of our five campuses has an Academic Intervention Coordinator who collaborates with general education staff to ensure that all students receiving extra support, remediation, and accommodations achieve their educational goals. Additionally, our Support Services team includes support aides who assist students in the general education classroom or in small-group instructional settings. 

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We are committed to creating an inclusive school community that reflects God's Kingdom. We offer personalized support for students with diverse abilities, including those with moderate to severe physical, cognitive, and emotional challenges. These students are fully integrated members of our classrooms and receive extra assistance from our inclusion staff to ensure they have the necessary accomodations and modifications for a successful school experience and are valued members of our school communities. 

Each of our five campuses has an Inclusion Coordinator who oversees the educational plans of all students receiving inclusion services. Additionally, we are blessed to have dedicated inclusion aides on our Support Services team who assist students in achieving their educational goals. 

Students with autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit disorders, behavior disorders, anxiety, and/or developmental coordination issues may have difficulty processing or tolerating sensory information. Sensory-based therapy can be used as one component of a comprehensive treatment plan. 

We provide sensory instruction using brushes, swings, balls, and specially designed equipment to offer vestibular, proprioceptive, auditory, and tactile inputs, which help to organize sensory pathways for students with diagnosed with sensory difficulties. 

Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) Resource Center

We aim to thoroughly understand each student’s learning profile in order to provide the best possible support for each individual. We use a collaborative approach, involving parents, teachers, support services staff, and other professionals to determine if a comprehensive psychological evaluation is necessary for a student. 

We work closely with the licensed psychologists of the All Belong Center for Inclusive Education  and other area psychology offices to gain a comprehensive understanding of a student’s learning strengths and weaknesses through an in-depth and multiple-perspective evaluation process.

A list of service providers is available through each campus' Educational Support Services (ESS) or Inclusion Coordinator.

School social work support is available to all students to promote educational success by helping students navigate the social and emotional challenges that arise throughout elementary, middle and high school. Students at each campus have access to a school social worker.

• GRCES Evergreen | Ginny Grit-Googe
• GRCES Iroquois | Grace Boyle and Ryan DeVries
• Rockford Christian | Ryan DeVries
• GRCMS | Kira Raquet
• GRCHS | Casey McMahon

The school social workers offer a variety of interventions that are systematically and based on student needs. These services include consulting with school staff about student concerns, developing and implementing interventions to increase academic engagement, assisting students in crisis situations, providing preventative presentations to classrooms, and meeting with students one-on-one or in groups to help process various challenges in a safe and supportive environment. Parents and guardians of students who receive school social work services benefit from an open line of communication with the school social worker in order to monitor and advance student progress. 

While school social workers are unable to provide intensive therapy, a facet of the role includes communicating with counselors/therapists who provide therapy to students outside of school. If a student has a significant area of concern beyond the scope of a school social worker, families will be connected with resources in the community.

Speech and Language Services, Occupational and Physical Therapy, Audiology and Vision Services.

As required by the State of Michigan, students who qualify for these services through the public school IEP process are served on our campuses by itinerant staff from Grand Rapids Public and Rockford Public Schools. We respect and value the collaborative relationship we have with the public school professionals who provide these supplemental services to our students.

Non-Public Services Plan Notification Form
Michigan Alliance for Families