---
title: Interventions library
category: cases
order: 8
lastUpdated: 2026-06-08
featureAvailability: GA
roles: [admin, facilitator]
navigationPath: Administration → Categories  •  Cases → Interventions
relatedArticles: [cases/creating-cases, cases/case-notes, reporting/intervention-trends]
---

## At a glance

- **Who uses it:** Admins curate the library; facilitators pick from it when adding interventions to a case.
- **When to use it:** Each time a facilitator opens an intervention on a case, and quarterly when admins prune the library.
- **Permissions required:** Admins edit; facilitators apply.
- **Navigation path:** Administration → Categories (curate) and Cases → open a case → Interventions (apply).

## Purpose

The interventions library is your school's shared menu of supports. Standardizing it produces consistent intervention-trend reports across facilitators, schools, and years.

## How the library is organized

- **Categories** — top-level groupings such as Academic, Attendance, Behavior, SEL, Family engagement. Configurable per organization.
- **Interventions** — specific strategies inside a category (small-group reading, daily check-in, parent contact rotation).
- **Tier** — Tier 1, 2, or 3, used to align with your MTSS framework.

## Step-by-step

### Curate the library (admins)

1. **Administration → Categories**.
2. Add a category. Inside it, add interventions with a name and an optional default tier.
3. Reorder by dragging — the order is what facilitators see in the picker.

[SCREENSHOT: admin-categories-tree]
_Administration → Categories with three categories expanded, showing interventions nested below each._

### Apply an intervention (facilitators)

1. Open the case. Click **Interventions → Add**.
2. Pick from the library, or choose **Custom** to add a one-off.
3. Set frequency (daily, weekly, custom), goal, and target end date.
4. Optionally override the tier.

### Retire an intervention

Set an intervention to **Inactive** instead of deleting it. Inactive items disappear from the picker but remain on historical cases (and in reports) so trends stay accurate.

## Tips & best practices

- Keep the library short — 15–25 interventions covers most schools. Long lists slow facilitators down.
- Review the library each summer using the [Intervention trends](/help/reporting/intervention-trends) report — retire what no one uses.
- Standardize naming across schools in a district so rollups aggregate cleanly.

## Common mistakes

- Letting "Custom" become the most-used intervention — that's a signal the library is missing something.
- Deleting an intervention mid-year — break historical reports. Use Inactive instead.

## Related articles

- [Creating a case](/help/cases/creating-cases)
- [Case notes](/help/cases/case-notes)
- [Intervention trends](/help/reporting/intervention-trends)

## FAQ

**Can different schools in a district have different libraries?**
Yes. Each school maintains its own; the district can recommend a baseline but does not force it.

**Does AmplifyED ship with a starter library?**
Yes — a default set of categories and interventions is created when an org is provisioned. You can keep, edit, or replace it.