Mental Health
BVP’s mental health team consists of highly skilled social workers, school counselors, and school psychologists.
Welcome to the 2024-2025 school year! Our monthly newsletter is written by BVP’s team of social workers, school psychologists, and school counselors, and informs parents about topics related to their scholars’ overall mental health. It also shares community resources and highlights BVP-specific approaches to social-emotional support and learning.
Contact Our Team
| Social Workers | School Counselors | School Psychologists |
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| This team connects families with mental health and community resources, provides scholars individual counseling through Special Education (IEP), provides social emotional support, addresses behavioral concerns, and supports the safety and wellbeing of all scholars. | This team is primarily at the elementary level and supports scholars’ social emotional development by providing social skills groups, positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS), and can also provide counseling through the scholar support team (SST). | This team is primarily responsible for Special Education, providing evaluations, collecting educational and behavioral data, and supporting teachers with best practices to support scholars with special education needs. |
| Korie Sanchez, LICSW (ES1) Network Social Work Chair 401-486-0779 korie.sanchez@bvpri.org |
Role to be filled (ES1) Contact Korie Sanchez in the interim |
Mercedes Neves (ES1 & ES2) 401-492-1829 Mercedes.Neves@bvpri.org |
| Jessica Dansereau, LCSW (ES2) 401-291-8602 jessica.dansereau@bvpri.org |
Carissa Hughes (ES2) 401-484-4169 carissa.hughes@bvpri.org |
Saadet Alparslan (ES3) 401-479-5558 saadet.alparslan@bvpri.org |
| Christian Velasquez, LCSW (ES3) 401-378-6014 christian.velasquez@bvpri.org |
Shannon Shockey (ES3) 401-871-9914 shannon.shockey@bvpri.org |
Kayla Kohle (UES) 401-602-2165 kayla.kohle@bvpri.org |
| Role to be filled (UES) Contact Korie Sanchez (above) in the interim |
Krista Chavez (JHS) 401-486-7396 krista.chavez@bvpri.org |
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| Joyce Masse, LICSW (JHS) 401-644-6689 joyce.masse@bvpri.org |
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| Michele Paliotta, LICSW (BVPHS) 401-492-1329 michele.paliotta@bvpri.org |
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