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SUN Bucks 2025

SUN Bucks, also known as Summer EBT, is a program to help families buy food for their school-aged children during the summer. Families will get a one-time benefit of $120 per year for each eligible child to help buy groceries during the summer months. Children who get SUN Bucks can still participate in other summer meal programs. Receiving SUN Bucks will not affect children or families' immigration status. For families who were pre-approved in January or applied and received a notice of approval since the application opened, benefits were recently distributed as follows (based on the primary applicant’s, not the child’s, last name): May 28 – A to G, May 29 – H to M, May 30 – N to S, May 31: T to Z. The one-time $120 benefit per eligible child was put onto a new or the household’s existing EBT card. For those that have not yet applied, the SUN Bucks application is available until 5 pm on August 29, 2025. Visit SUNBucks.dcf.ks.gov for more information.

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Central Elementary School

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School Counseling

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Mandy Platt

Phone: 785-456-7271 ext. 2113

Email: plattm@usd320.com

Weekly Schedule

  • Monday: Plan and individual/groups
  • Tuesday: Explore
  • Wednesday: Counselor
  • Thursday: Counselor
  • Friday: Plan and individual/groups

FAQ

  • The school counseling program is designed to promote academic, career, and personal/social development.   Within these areas the counselor focuses on the counseling curriculum, individual student planning, responsive services and system support.

  • Students meet weekly for classroom activities with the school counselor during their specials rotation.  As part of a grant that was awarded funding Second Step, classroom teachers work with the counselor in teaching the Second Step curriculum during the classroom weekly meetings. The counselor is then able to delve further into the topics covered and provide additional opportunities to practice the new concepts. 
    The units in the Second Step program include:

    1. Skills for Learning
    2. The Bullying Prevention Unit
    3. Empathy
    4. Emotion Management
    5. Problem Solving

    In addition to the Second Step units, there will be units on Multiple Intelligences, Growth Mindset, as well as Career Development and planning.

    • Help resolve problems that interfere with learning;
    • Counsel groups on the topics of;
      • Divorce
      • Grief
      • Anger Management
      • Friendship
      • Deployment
      • Counsel individual students;
    • Conduct classroom guidance activities;
    • Facilitate educational activities that help students understand the responsibilities of work and participation in school;
    • Coordinate with school staff and community resources to assist students; and
    • Offer crisis intervention and prevention.

  • Students may be referred to the counselor by self, parent/guardian, teacher, administrator, friend, or agency.

  • A positive relationship between school and home enhances the academic, career and persona/social development of children.  Counselors work with parents/guardians to encourage academic and social success by:

    • Involving parents/guardians;
    • Providing referral information about community resources;
    • Informing parents/guardians of situations that may harm their child or that may harm others;
    • Obtaining parental consent before proceeding with on-going counseling; and
    • Protecting the privacy of information shared by parents and students