Describe your student-support process. Makeform creates a staff referral form with reasons, observations, prior supports, priority, and follow-up contacts.
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Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Teachers requesting social-emotional or practical support
Format
Structured staff referral
Prompt size
300 chars
Example form structure
Structured staff referral
Student, grade, and referrer
What are the primary referral reasons?
What have you directly observed?
Which supports were tried?
Requested review timeframe
Suggested routing tags
Routine follow-up
Priority review
Family contact requested
Separate direct observations from secondhand information and collect only details needed for the next step.
Step 1
Notice
staff records a specific student concern
Step 2
Refer
reasons, observations, and prior supports are submitted
Step 3
Review
the designated support team evaluates the request
Step 4
Follow up
an owner and next contact are documented
Clearer student support referrals
A structured referral keeps the concern, context, prior steps, and requested response together.
Use consistent categories for attendance, relationships, basic needs, transitions, and other requests.
Prompt for observable patterns, timing, setting, frequency, and strengths instead of vague labels.
Record strategies, outreach, and results so the next person can build on the work.
Adapted to school workflows
Start with common intake fields, then reveal follow-ups based on the selected reason.
Capture observations, changes, attempted strategies, and coordination preferences.
Collect the pattern, timeframe, outreach, barriers, and follow-up owner.
Select support categories and known contact preferences without overcollecting.
Organize dates, strengths, barriers, roles, participants, and review dates.
Build the referral workflow
Describe your questions and routing, then refine the form before sharing it.
List submitters, eligible concerns, needed context, and priority choices.
Use your school's categories and require only decision-critical questions.
Show focused follow-ups for attendance, family, or basic needs support.
Route the referral and document who coordinates the next step.
Referral form vs informal request
The form does not replace professional judgment or urgent school procedures. It gives routine referrals a consistent starting point and a traceable owner.
Field guide
Use these six sections, then align wording and routing with your school's process.
Student and referrer
Collect enough to match the student and return questions to the referrer. Avoid unrelated identifiers.
Reason for referral
Checkboxes aid scanning while an Other field preserves nuance. Allow overlapping reasons.
Observations and strengths
Capture what occurred, when, where, and how often. Pair concerns with strengths and helpful conditions.
Supports already tried
A brief history shows what staff attempted and how the student responded.
Priority and routing
Offer local review timeframes and direct urgent concerns to established school channels.
Contact and next step
Collect known contact preferences, a coordinator, and the requested action without assuming the outcome.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for teachers, administrators, counselors, and student-support teams building a staff referral process.
It is a staff intake for requesting social worker review or student support. It records the reason, observations, strengths, prior steps, requested help, priority, and follow-up contacts.
Use categories that match the work your school social worker or support team handles, such as attendance barriers, peer relationships, school transitions, family outreach, access to basic needs, or coordination with existing supports. Include Other and a short explanation so staff are not forced into an inaccurate category.
Prompt for direct observations: what happened, where and when it occurs, how often it has been noticed, and whether anything recently changed. Ask separately for information reported by the student or another person. Include student strengths and situations where the concern is less visible.
Yes. Classroom strategies, check-ins, outreach, schedule adjustments, and results help the reviewer understand the starting point. Ask when each step occurred and whether it helped, had no clear effect, or was not completed.
Yes. Conditional logic can show outreach-history fields after an attendance selection, support-category and contact-preference fields for a basic needs request, or planning dates for a transition referral. Staff see a shorter form while the reviewer receives more relevant detail.
A routine referral form should not be the only path for a concern that needs immediate attention. Put your school's established urgent contact instructions directly on the form, define what each priority option means locally, and tell staff which procedure to use instead of waiting for form review.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect referrals without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Make each field earn its place in the referral decision. Ask for relevant school-based observations, prior supports, requested action, and contact details needed for follow-up. Remove broad prompts that invite unrelated history, limit required fields, and review access and retention choices under your school's own policies.
Give every referral a clear starting point.
