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Special education evaluations, including home visits, are conducted when indicatated, and weekly staff meetings are held to review the status of students in need or under Individual Educational Plan conditions. The Guidance Department also assists students and parents to obtain services outside of the school through the town Youth Services Coordinator in the Department of Social Services, or arranging visits to the Edinburg Center or hospital or clinic programs in the region. while guidance counselors and outreach workers help with referrals to pediatricians, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and other specialists, nurses collaborate with the Lexington Lions club in finding free services for students in need of eyeglasses who cannot afford them. The Angel Fund in Lexington also works with nurses to provide winter coats, hats and gloves to families in need of basic winter clothing. Becky Rushford, the town Youth Services Coordinator, works regularly with professional therapists practicing in Lexington who are interested in offering consultative services to Lexington High students or families. Lexington High does not keep statistical records about students struggling with deficits in basic needs. Not only are records of counseling contacts not kept, identification and efforts to assist are conducted on a case by case basis. The staff vary in their impressions of whether the numbers of students with basic needs is fairly constant, rising, or declining. The school is fully involved in the operations of the newly formed Youth Services Council which is coordinated by the Youth Services Coordinator and which does not function as a town agency or unit of government. The Guidance Director at the high school is urgently concerned to maintain the position of Youth Services Coordinator, and he is convinced that the system districtwide would work much better if the district had a K-12 Director of Guidance and Human Services in place.