TIECP Therapeutic School Model

The TIECP Therapeutic School Model is a whole school mental health SEL program that is designed to be a practical and cost-effective means for schools to provide needed mental health services to their whole student body within a therapeutic environment.

It is a worthwhile investment from States and schools because students with unaddressed mental health needs have difficulty with learning.

The program provides a means for everyone to understand adolescent development and regulation and preparedness for the classroom, because unready, unregulated students are the ones who aren’t going to test well, who are going to be absent, and who are going to disrupt, which becomes a repetitive pattern of not getting the best of the student. 

Rather than requiring a disability classification to provide mental health services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) special education program, the Therapeutic Medicaid Clinicians pilot seeks to fund two (2) in-school clinicians under the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit to serve and support students within a whole school environment, separate from IDEA and not dependent on school operational budgets.

About TIECP

Launched in 2021, TIECP (the Trauma-Informed Educators Community of Practice) is a community by, of, and for educational practitioners that supports peer-to-peer learning, district/charter cross-sector collaboration, and the creation and sharing of trauma-informed educational practices, including developing a standardized, sharable therapeutic whole school model to help improve educational outcomes, and a sustainable means to fund school clinicians.

Contact: info@therapeuticmodel.org