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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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West Elementary School

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Robin Butler

Phone: 785-456-8333 ext. 3118

Email: butlerr@usd320.com

Hello, my name is Robin Butler and I am the counselor at West Elementary School.  I have been a counselor in Wamego since 2000.  I have two years teaching experience and have been a school counselor since 1988.  I hope I can answer some of you questions below, but if you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me.

Robin Butler

Phone: 785-456-8333 ext. 3118

Email: butlerr@usd320.com

 

  • The school counseling program is designed to promote academic, career, and social/emotional development of our students. Within these ares, the counselor focuses on the counseling curriculum, individual student support, responsive services, and system support.

  • Students meet weekly for classroom guidance activities.  During our time together we discuss the following topics:

    • Empathy
    • Skills for Learning
    • Emotion Management
    • Problem Solving
    • Bullying/Harassment
    • Career Awareness/Exploration
    • Decision Making

  • 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 social/emotional development of children.  Counselors work with parents/guardians to encourage academic and social success by:

    • Involving parents/guardians;
    • Offering “Becoming a Love and Logic® Parent” courses;
    • 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.