A Better Normal- Education Upended, Special focus on School Mental Health

Lara Kain 9/2/203:20 PM

I am SO excited for our next episode, and you should be too! Join us Thursday 9/3 as we welcome our speical guests Leora Wolf-Prusan and Livia Rojas from the SAMHSA funded Pacific Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) . We will get an exclusive preview of the soon to be launched School Crisis Recovery & Renewal project, discuss the upcoming virtual learning institute focused on Grief Sensitivty as well as explore the many amazing FREE resources the MHTTC has to offer. It is gonna be great!

Weekly themes include: How do we create physical and psychological safety, especially in the face of so much uncertainty? What strategies can we use to create a culture of collective care? How do we implement peer support structures for youth AND adults? What might the first two weeks of school look like with an emphasis on student and adult well-being? How do we manage the transition while acknowledging our collective grief and trauma? How might we build anti-racist schools and keep equity front and center of our policies? In what ways can we lift up and empower youth voices in education?

Our current capacity is 100 participants, so please join us on time and we will enter people until we reach capacity. These will be recorded and available on the ACEsConnection website and YouTube channel. Zoom meeting info below.

Lara Kain, ACEs In Education community manager for ACEs Connection, will lead the discussion along with other special guests and co-hosts.

If you want to catch up on past Better Normal-Education Upended we now have our own dedicated YouTube channel!

https://us02web.zoom.us/meetin...ivkJnYnWoKzlpxY1KvvD

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Anne Katona-LinnMember

@Michael Sirbola posted:
Will punishment as discipline be discussed as the number one factor most able to deliver REAL change and benefit? Zero-punishment education? Of course not.
Sickening.
Some perspective:
Hard Data on ACEs effects on health was published 20 years before the Kaiser study but no one cared because it linked ACEs to huge increases in deaths by the top 5 killers such as heart disease and cancer (big-yawn).
Sadly, the silly CDC didn't think to point out that ACEs also increased & was linked to MORBID OBESITY, especially in women - upon which REVELATION a massive interest immediately ensued (finally)! Onward acrsconnection.com
Big-sigh!

@Michael Sirbola Changing behavior involves more than just "punishment". There are things that should be done to prevent the problem behavior, teach skills to children/youth so they don't "need" the behavior, and reinforcing the use of the appropriate skills. Just using punishment only gives the adults a temporary reprieve from the behavior, but it doesn't meet the need of the child...so the behavior change won't last. They will just figure out another way to get their need met...maybe self-medication with substances, dropping out, violence, etc.

In addition, punishment is also delivered to black and brown children/youth at much higher rates than their white peers for the SAME behavior. The first step is to make sure that whatever "punishments" ARE delivered, they need to be delivered consistently. The next question is to ask WHY are they having negative behaviors? Trauma is a huge contributor, and we can't just "wait" for it to go away. Lack of social-emotional learning/coping skills is another huge contributor. If kids are struggling academically, we teach them. When kids are struggling, we punish them. We SHOULD be teaching behaviors the same way we teach academics.

Respectfully,

Anne (Special Educator and BCBA, trauma-survivor)

9/4/209:42 AM

Michael SirbolaMember

Will punishment as discipline be discussed as the number one factor most able to deliver REAL change and benefit? Zero-punishment education? Of course not.

Sickening.

Some perspective:

Hard Data on ACEs effects on health was published 20 years before the Kaiser study but no one cared because it linked ACEs to huge increases in deaths by the top 5 killers such as heart disease and cancer (big-yawn).

Sadly, the silly CDC didn't think to point out that ACEs also increased & was linked to MORBID OBESITY, especially in women - upon which REVELATION a massive interest immediately ensued (finally)! Onward acrsconnection.com

Big-sigh!

9/3/201:11 PM