Mental Health Specialists are responsible for the following:

• Provides counseling for substance abuse
• Serves as liaison for the home-school-community
• Provides social, emotional, and behavioral assessment
• Provides direct services (individual/group therapeutic services, social and emotional learning)
• Treatment of emotional disorders
• Provides professional case management
• Consults on Behavior Intervention Plans - II, III, Non-IEP Integrated Support Plan
• Facilitates transition from school to school
• Provides after-care services
• Counseling home and hospital students

ACPS Mental Health Specialists are listed below along with the schools that they serve:

• Wendy McKenzie - Allegany High School (home school), Career Center
• Mariah Peterson - Fort Hill High School (home school), Career Center
• Jamie Kamp - Mountain Ridge High School (home school), Career Center
• Ann Beeman - Beall Elementary School (home school), Frost Elementary School
• Jill Starr - John Humbird Elementary School (home school), Parkside Elementary School
• Gale Vanhouten - Washington Middle School (home school), Flintstone Elementary School
• Kristin Wigger - Braddock Middle School (home school), West Side Elementary School
• Nicole Andrews - Bel Air Elementary School (home school), South Penn Elementary School
• Julie Brown - Cash Valley Elementary School (home school), Cresaptown Elementary School
• Courtney Vinci - George's Creek Elementary School (home school), Westernport Elementary School
• Brandi Raley - Westmar Middle School (home school), Mt. Savage School
• Autumn Grant - RESTART (home school), Northeast Elementary School