Pupil Services Mission Statement

Agency Mission Pupil Services is an agency within Los Angeles Unified School District under the Student Health and Human Service Division and their mission statement is the following: “To ensure that all LAUSD students are enrolled, attending, engaged, and on-track to graduate.” The agency firmly believes that within every student is a highly capable and motivated high school graduate.
Agency Structure Pupil services partner with a variety of district and non-district agencies such as the City of Los Angeles. The City of Los Angeles pays for 16 PSA counselors, 1 lead counselor, and 1 coordinator position to be co-located at FamilySource Centers which are non-LAUSD agencies. These FamilySource Centers are “one-stop shops” that provide students

The role of the PSA counselor is to serve as a liaison between these FamilySource Center, Students and their families and their schools. As well, as they receive all diversion cases. Diversion cases is a diversion program. The diversion program serves as a preventative measure so that student do not end up in the judicial system. Pupil Services offers several programs that offer unique services to ensure that every LAUSD student graduates from high school. Pupil services offer the following programs: Attendance Improvement Program (AIP), A-G Diploma Program, College Empowerment, FamilySource-City Partnership, Field Education Program, Foreign Student Admissions Office, Foster Youth Achievement Program (FYAP), Homeless Education, Local District and School-Based Support, Permits and Student Transfers, School Attendance Review Board Meetings (SARB), School-Based Pupil Services and Attendance Counselors, and YouthSource-City Partnership. In regards to Pupil Service personnel, the agency has one Executive director and one System director. The system director offers assistance

The mayor of Los Angeles office: oversees the decisions made by the city council, and in return he provides endorsements and approval which ultimately influencers city council decisions to collaborate and actually provide the funding. Community based organizations such as family source centers and youth source centers: when school is out, they provide case-management, tutoring, therapy, resources such as housing, food, clothing, basic needs. community based mental health providers - liaison is the PSA district agencies such division of instruction(staff of academic countslors) (what the students should be learning): provide post-secondary support (that are in the tier 1 level, which are student who are doing well, that have fulfilled their A-G requirements, we work with the division of instruction, to ensure that these students go to college) they share resources such as college trainings how to fill out fasfa, instructional resources (what classes students should be taking to make sure the students go to college), the members of the LAUSD school board; gets funding, if they have request we have to meet them such as increasing attendance, superintendents