Report 2015-112 Recommendation 14 Responses
Report 2015-112: Student Mental Health Services: Some Students' Services Were Affected by a New State Law, and the State Needs to Analyze Student Outcomes and Track Service Costs (Release Date: January 2016)
Recommendation #14 To: Long Beach Unified School District
To better understand the effectiveness of the mental health services in its special education program, Long Beach should use the six performance indicators we identified to perform analysis annually on the subset of students receiving mental health services.
Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From October 2020
The LBUSD has applied the performance indicators that has been given as a result of this audit to randomly review files and insure that students with mental health services are making progress with the treatment goals and the indicators that have been laid out.
- Completion Date: November 2019
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Pending
Although Long Beach indicated that it had used the six performance indicators to perform an analysis of students receiving mental health services, it did not provide documentation to substantiate the analysis.
- Auditee did not substantiate its claim of full implementation
Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From October 2018
We have applied the performance indicators that have been given as a result of this audit to randomly review files and insure that students with mental health service are making progress with the treatment goals and the indicators that have been laid out.
- Completion Date: November 2017
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Pending
Long Beach did not provide documentation that supports its claim of full implementation. Accordingly, we continue to assess this recommendation as pending.
- Auditee did not substantiate its claim of full implementation
- Auditee did not address all aspects of the recommendation
Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From October 2017
We have used the six performance indicators to review the efficacy of mental health services. This has proven to be a helpful activity and has allowed us to make training modifications to monitor progress.
- Completion Date: January 2017
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Pending
Although we made a specific request, Long Beach did not provide any documentation to support its claim that it has fully implemented this recommendation. Accordingly, we continue to assess the recommendation as pending implementation.
- Auditee did not substantiate its claim of full implementation
1-Year Agency Response
We have worked in tandem with service providers to evaluate the efficacy of the services that students are receiving. Teachers have been included in this process to insure that there is common understanding amongst those that are linking mental health resources to a student's IEP. Random review (led internally) indicates that student's IEP goal development and attainment is more clearly delineated in each IEP.
- Completion Date: January 2017
- Response Date: January 2017
California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Pending
Although Long Beach states that it and service providers evaluated the efficacy of the services that students are receiving and that it performed a random review of student IEPs and found that goal development and attainment is more clearly delineated in those it reviewed, it has not taken steps towards using the six performance indicators to analyze the subset of students receiving mental health services.
- Auditee did not substantiate its claim of full implementation
- Auditee did not address all aspects of the recommendation
6-Month Agency Response
We will be working on this with a selected work group of teachers.
- Estimated Completion Date: 01/15/17
- Response Date: October 2016
California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Pending
60-Day Agency Response
The District is awaiting further clarification from CDE regarding how to monitor outcomes. Recent legislation has been proposed by the legislature that would effect this process.
- Estimated Completion Date: 12/31/2016
- Response Date: April 2016
California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Pending
All Recommendations in 2015-112
Agency responses received are posted verbatim.