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UPCOMING WEBINAR | Planning for the Next Normal at School: Key starter plays for prioritizing health when schools reopen
UPCOMING WEBINAR | Planning for the Next Normal at School: Key starter plays for prioritizing health when schools reopen To assist school and district leaders with specific, evidence-informed guidance and operating procedures for keeping school communities healthy during school reopenings, a number of nationally recognized and trusted school health organizations have come together to develop a playbook for school reopening — “Planning for the Next Normal at School: Keeping students, staff,...
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Offset trauma for students by promoting positive experiences [exclusive.multibriefs.com]
By Sheilamary Koch, Multibriefs: Exclusive, July 27, 2020 When Christina Bethell was little, she lived in a low-income housing complex in Los Angeles where her neighbor, a quiet lady the kids called Mrs. Raccoon, always had her door open for the neighborhood kids. Every Saturday she threw a little tea party with candy to celebrate any child with a birthday that week. Bethell fondly remembers the woman’s kindness as source of comfort during her challenging childhood. Dr. Bethell, now a...
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A Proactive Approach to Student Wellness [mdlogix.com]
By Mdlogix, July 2020 Solano County Office of Education (SCOE) works hard to maximize behavioral health support to students in the county’s six independent school districts. Through a partnership with the county’s behavioral health department – which has been continuously expanded and strengthened over the past 11 years – SCOE has been able to support a variety of suicide prevention, mental health, and social emotional learning programs in school-based settings. Part of these initiatives...
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To improve student's mental health, Yale study finds, teach them to breathe [news.yale.edu]
By Brita Belli, Yale News, July 27, 2020 When college students learn specific techniques for managing stress and anxiety, their well-being improves across a range of measures and leads to better mental health, a new Yale study finds. The research team evaluated three classroom-based wellness training programs that incorporate breathing and emotional intelligence strategies, finding that two led to improvements in aspects of well-being. The most effective program led to improvements in six...
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Bringing hope and healing to all of us through all of us.
It is happening. The grand experiment of full school distance learning is on for teachers and families of California. Educators have been asked to source some sort of magic to heal the disease of a broken educational system as it crumbles under the pressures of inconsistent and insufficient funding, tremendous variance in school community capacity for distance learning, and countless organizational structures being taxed to their limits. The pandemic continues, job losses increase, and fires...
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The Partnership for Resilience is Hiring an Executive Director
The Partnership for Resilience is an Illinois non-profit organization whose mission is to improve academic, health, and social outcomes for children by fostering trauma-responsive schools and effective family, school, health, and community partnerships. It now assists 26 school districts in south-suburban Cook County and rural southern Illinois, has an annual budget of $700,000, and employs 7 full and part-time staff and consultants. For more information see www.partnership4resilience.org .
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SEL and Mental Health in Schools
"SEL and Mental Health" is a critical conversation for all of us, especially in the school context. Please join me and the other panelists on this opportunity hosted by Aperture Education. We will be covering topics spanning school-based mental health services, how educator and student SEL supports learning outcomes, and more. Join us on February 2nd, 1:00 pm PST/4:00 EST SEL and Mental Health Webinar Registration
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Re: SEL and Mental Health in Schools
This sounds like a great opportunity. I think I'll sit in. Thank you for the offering.
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Re: 16 Strong Project Interest-Based Community
You can follow our initiatives on our website: 16strongproject.com or you can also find us on Instagram - @16strongproject !
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16 Strong Project Interest-Based Community
Hello everyone! I wanted to introduce our new interest-based community, 16 Strong Project. 16 Strong works directly with adolescents to empower resilience to ACEs through educational workshops, school partnerships, and community outreach. We strive to continue conversations that help young people navigate the challenges they are facing as a result of ACEs. Through our new ACEs Connection community, we hope to engage individuals who work directly with youth ages 12-25, as well as young...
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Reopening Schools: Free Webinar on June 19th from noon -- 2:00 est
How to reopen schools in Fall 2021 optimally
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School Mental Health - From Implementing ➜ Funding
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Webinar: School Mental Health - From Implementing ➜ Funding (Moved to Jul 7th)!
(UPDATE: We moved this webinar to July 7th 11-12 PST) In this webinar, we’ll discuss the unique importance of school mental health at this time, what schools can do to support it, and how these efforts can be funded (including accessing ARPA funds). Join experts in school mental health/trauma-informed program design, implementation, and funding streams to explore how schools committed to supporting student wellbeing can find a path that considers both your school capacity and the needs of...
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Re: Webinar: School Mental Health - From Implementing ➜ Funding (Moved to Jul 7th)!
The school district of Broward County, Florida has 250k kids & 250 schools - we have contracted for "suicide evaluations" of "selected" students. This is preposterous. Can and WILL PACEs please offer to provide the PACE tests and to provide a post-test evaluation and follow-up to my school district of 250K students and 15k teachers as part of a "suicide evaluation?" Consider it, please? Let me explain... Truthfully, it is the district's double-speak way of saying it wants to sick the...
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Re: Webinar: School Mental Health - From Implementing ➜ Funding (Moved to Jul 7th)!
Hello All, We've (school district of Broward County, FL) approved & contracted for "suicide evaluations" of "selected" students. Is this correct? I have not seen the suicide-evaluations but I have sat through the full yearly psychology presentation and the PD, professional development so teachers can better identify (target) children at risk (of being a problem in the future). I came away from these experiences convinced that district "solutions" like these are a big part of the problem.
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Social, Emotional and Mental Health Literacy in Schools
Building SEL and MHL are both critical to improving school mental health. According to recent discussions with thought-leaders at PBIS, it is recommended that SEL is integrated following school mental health and school wide positive behavior supports (Weist et al, 2018). We are missing the boat if we are excluding Mental Health Literacy (MHL) and mental health education training.
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October Edition of Education Upended: Talking Out of Turn- Reframing Mental Health: Moving from a disease to wellness, with special guest Yesmina Luchsinger
Please join us for our new series Education Upended: Talking Out of Turn . This monthly series will feature a conversation facilitated by Lara Kain, PACEsConnection Education Consultant , with special guests on education related current events and hot topics. We will use a trauma-informed and PACEs science aware lens to examine what is going on K-12 education, what needs changing, and strategies being used in the field to disrupt harmful policies and make positive changes in the system.
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New Guidance from Dept of Ed Recommends Urgent Attention To Mental Health
Over the course of 15 years of research, I and my team at Sharpen have created a comprehensive system to help school districts accomplish all of the recommendations released in yesterday's report from Dept of Ed; including: enhancing mental health literacy, reducing stigma about mental disorders, implementing evidence-based prevention practices and establishing an Integrated Framework of social, emotional and behavioral health support.
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The growing battle over school mental health and social-emotional learning
This is an urgent all call to those of us who believe in trauma-informed and healing-centered schools that support the whole person. After reading the recent NBC article “Parents protesting 'critical race theory' identify another target: mental health programs , ” I quickly put aside the blog I had been working on because I knew this was too important. Concerns from colleagues about the rising backlash against increased priorities of mental health and social-emotional learning (SEL) have...
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After decades of unmet mental health needs in New Orleans schools, teachers and activists scramble to help kids on the brink (nola.com)
By Kaylee Poche, Staff Writer, www.nola.com/gambit/news April 4, 2022 Amanda Schroeder saw a lot during her time as a school counselor in New Orleans. Schroeder, who now works as the president of the nonprofit Communities in Schools, recalls the time a decade ago when she worked in a public school in New Orleans East. A kindergartener at the school would abruptly bolt from their desk, running out of the classroom without warning. Sometimes, he’d run out of the school building altogether.
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Join us for a 2-Part Series on School Crisis Recovery and Renewal
Join Education Upended April 28th and May 17th, 2022 for a 2-part conversation about a SAMHSA funded project which explores the School Crisis Recovery and Renewal process through a trauma-informed lens. April 28th join guests Leora Wolf-Prusan and Yesmina Luchsinger from the School Crisis Recovery and Renewal (SCRR) team. We will discuss the School Crisis Recovery and Renewal concept and framework through a lens of systems change, policy, and school mental health crisis leadership. May 17th...
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Join the ACEs Youth Movement! Led By Youth for Their Peers
Join 16 Strong Project co-founder, Samantha Wettje, and ACEs educator, Dr. Torie Williams, as we lead the fight against the youth mental health crisis. This event will be a fully youth-led peer-to-peer discussion. This is an initiative to talk about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), the biggest public health threat facing our nation’s youth and a major contributor to the stark rise in mental health challenges among young people. When: May 22, 2022, 4-5:30pm EST Where: Zoom - Youth can...
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3 case studies utilizing trauma-informed technology for school resilience
3 case studies utilizing adaptive tech to improve school resilience, featuring Dr. Martin Eaton (CA Schools), Ruth Schoonover (SC Schools), and Colin Bauer (SC Schools)
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Youth Leadership Opportunity: Recruiting Youth Advocacy Board Members
16 Strong Project is excited to be recruiting for our third Youth Advocacy Board! We are looking for youth ages 14-24 who are passionate about mental health education, want to learn more about ACEs, and who are ready to inspire change in their communities.
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CTIPP & Advocates Clear First Hurdle in Securing $1 Billion for Trauma-Informed Schools
In April 2022, the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) organized more than 170 advocates across 36 states to sign a coalition letter urging Congress to invest $1 billion in this year’s federal budget to increase trauma-informed resources and improve access to mental health professionals in America’s schools. This work has paid off. In June, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee released their draft Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) spending legislation, which included CTIPP’s...
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Youth Leadership Opportunity: Recruiting Youth Advocacy Board Members (applications due 8/15!)
Last Chance! Applications are due 8/15! 16 Strong Project is excited to be recruiting for our Youth Advocacy Board! Our goal is to involve youth in our program and resource development as well as provide guidance to this group to be leaders and advocates around ACEs in their own schools and communities. Together, we are combatting the youth mental health crisis by empowering youth leaders and uplifting youth voices. We are looking for a group of creative, resourceful, hard-working youth ages...
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Knowing Better
In 2007, at the start of my son’s fourth grade year, the teacher who I will call Ms. L, gave the class an assignment. They were to write letters to their “future selves” outlining the things they envisioned and hoped for over the course of the coming year. Ms. L. would give the letters back to the children at the end of the year so they could see how their “future selves” aligned with the vision they held at the start of the year. Though my son, ten at the time, showed no outward signs of...
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Re: Knowing Better
I am so moved by your story and saddened by your struggles and loss. Hopefully the tremendous emotional effort it took to recount those years will help others to be alert and aware to the nature and seriousness of childhood trauma. Thank you for bringing this message.
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Health Equity and the Social Determinants of Health Are NOT Synonyms
Successful health equity strategies must be inclusive, and focus on all marginalized and minoritized persons and their communities. Any lesser view will continue to yield a faulty health equity equation.
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"5 Minute Mindfulness" activity cards for schools
Evidence-based "5 Minute Mindfulness" cards are available that boost resilience, mental health literacy and accessibility.
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Mindfulness / Resiliency "Shop" for Schools
Announcing the Sharpen Shop with an entire collection of resiliency gear that has powerful messages of hope and healing. In particular the award-winning "5 Minute Mindfulness" program has been deployed in resilient schools and community suicide prevention initiatives for over 10 years.
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What Children Really Need Is Adults That Understand Development
The brain doesn’t fully develop until about the age of 25. This fact is sometimes quite surprising and eye opening to most adults. It can also be somewhat overwhelming for new parents and professionals who are interacting with babies and young children every day, to contemplate. It is essential to realize however, that the greatest time of development occurs in the years prior to kindergarten. And even more critical to understand is that by age three 85 percent of the core structures of the...
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Re: What Children Really Need Is Adults That Understand Development
Love this! Through parent coaching, I work really hard to have parents not only understand the importance of presence, joint attention and reciprocity, but how the lack of it they experience shows up in their parenting experiences. Thank you for your contribution to this important work!
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Early Relational Health Innovators Partner In Program Supported by PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities Members in Twelve California Counties
Christina Bethell, Ph.D, MBA, MPH, founder of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), principal author of the groundbreaking study on positive childhood experiences, and creator of the free Well Visit Planner, among other innovations. Two internationally-respected leaders and innovators in complementary aspects of early relational health and childhood and maternal health equity recently launched a partnership they believe will benefit everyone from newborn babies and...