Take a deep dive into how grief presents in children and adolescents. Guidelines are provided for addressing the death of a student or school staff and supporting students after a crisis. Attendees are provided with developmentally appropriate interventions for facilitating grief processing with students in individual or group sessions.
Multicultural Considerations to Support Grief in Diverse Populations This session provides an in-depth look at how grief presents in children and adolescents while also exploring multiculturalism, inclusive language, microaggressions, countertransference, and practitioner biases when speaking to students about their death loss experience.
This session offers practitioners suggestions for assessing for grief responses in students. Attendees also will learn how to conceptualize grief, facilitate grief processing, and balance self-care to vicarious trauma or activation of their own grief responses.
Participants will learn about the different styles of communication: Passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, and assertive. They’ll then practice different ways to express themselves through activities.
FAST® is an internationally-acclaimed parent engagement program that supports the family bonding necessary for children to thrive. Built on evidence-based practices and rigorously tested, FAST empowers parents as leaders of their families, builds positive connections and social capital between families and schools, and creates a supportive community that fosters children’s well-being and education.
The Nurturing Parenting Programs are a family-centered, trauma-informed initiative designed to build nurturing parenting skills as an alternative to abusive and neglecting parenting and child-rearing practices. By teaching positive parenting behaviors, the long-term goals are to prevent recidivism in families receiving social services, lower the rate of multi-parent teenage pregnancies, reduce juvenile delinquency and alcohol abuse, and stop the intergenerational cycle of child abuse. The Nurturing Parenting Program is recognized by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the National Registry for Evidence-based Parenting Programs (NREPP).
Everyone deserves relationships free from physical, verbal, and emotional abuse. In this training, participants will learn ways to identify abusive dynamics in intimate and family relationships. They’ll also discover ways to identify abusive dynamics in intimate and family relationships, as well as different myths and facts connected to abusive relationships.
There are a variety of methods and data components that can be used to assess wellness needs. Assessment can provide an understanding of emotional and social competencies, as well as address ways to improve wellness-related instruction and programming. During this session, attendees will learn how to gather and analyze data so they can assess the needs of themselves and their students.
Recent studies show that school connectedness can help reduce a student’s risk for mental health challenges, such as substance use and suicidal ideation. In this session, attendees will plan for intentional and systematic relationship-building with individual students, small groups, and the whole class to improve students’ long-term wellbeing and their ability to learn and stay engaged.
Big goals, such as mastering a new academic concept, can feel overwhelming and demotivating. But celebrating small growths can provide enough motivation to push through difficulties and lead to big growth over time. In this session, attendees will learn how to set incremental growth goals and develop a system of celebrations with students.
