🌟 Customer Spotlight: Jace Dallman

Our newest customer spotlight is the amazing Jace Dallman (JaceD) from Omaha Public Schools. Jace recently blew us away with three game-changing projects: Student Attendance Workflows, Student Suicide Assessment, and Teacher Retention Analysis. To see all the amazing details, click here to watch his Insights Exchange. Access Passcode: Qualtrics1!
Now for our Q&A with Jace:
Q: Tell us about your current role.
A: I coordinate the collection, validation, and analysis of various academic, culture, and staff & student data. I also support ad hoc requests for data and evaluation projects using various collection, statistical, and reporting methods.
Q: Tell us about one project that you have run on Qualtrics that has been particularly impactful.
A: We realized that students across the district were going to school counselors or psychologists with suicidal ideations, but we had no data on these interactions. There was also a desire to standardize the process to ensure that each student would be guaranteed a high level of care with each interaction. However, we also needed a process that was flexible enough for professionals to exercise their judgment and care protocol. At the end of the year, we would want to review this information to improve efforts.
The solution was a three-step process in Qualtrics. 1) A contact import for students, 2) creating a survey form with instructions and protocols, and 3) exporting the data to be stored in Infinite Campus.
After working with our counseling department we established a suicide ideation intake form which replaced a previous pen/paper survey that asked students specific questions. Based on how a student answers it will provide a risk assessment along with PDFs for standardized protocols. However, if the clinician felt that the student’s risk level was higher or lower they could indicate that and receive the corresponding protocol. Counselors/psychologists would then indicate which interventions they utilized for that incident. A copy of the form would be emailed to the counselor and later that day the results would be exported and written into Infinite Campus and tied to the student.
Over the 2021-22 school year there were almost 1600 suicide screeners performed. After our pilot testing, we collected 1290 screeners at 87 schools. Just over 28 percent of those indicated a high risk for suicidal behavior and the appropriate measures were taken to ensure that those 368 students did not harm themselves. Additionally, information from each of these screeners was attached to student records so other mental health professionals could see previous interactions and interventions.
You can find a version of the Suicide Intervention project here:
20-21_OPS_Suicide_Intervention_Form.qsfBelow you will find many more projects that we have launched at OPS:
Q: What would you like to learn from others in the Community?
A: Other creative ways to use the platform to solve district problems.
Q: If time and money were endless, what would be your dream experience?
A: I would probably want to purchase a large vacation home somewhere on the water that would comfortably accommodate my extended family and provide them transportation to get there anytime they desired a get-away.