Substance Use Education
This workshop will discuss how drugs and alcohol affect the brain. Participants will learn the four stages of addiction, the parts of the brain affected by substance use, and how to recognize the stages and the cycle of addiction.
Building Grief Peer Support Groups
Are you looking for guidelines for implementing grief peer support groups on campus? This session covers the conceptualization of grief, creating group guidelines, and selecting group appropriate members. A sample curriculum and grief-focused group activities are provided to attendees.
Grief 101 Series
The group of psychoeducation training will discuss the basics of grief and how it might present in various ways. Choose from the following topics: Educator’s grief, supporting a grieving child/student, supporting a grieving child on the autism spectrum, and supporting the grief in the community.
Grief Informed Schools: Interventions for Grieving Students
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.
Working Through Grief: Recognizing, Managing, and Supporting Grief Processes
Multicultural Considerations to Support Grief in Diverse PopulationsThis session 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.
Working Through Grief: Recognizing, Managing, and Supporting Grief Processes
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.
Communication Skills
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.
Conflict Resolution
This training explains what conflict resolution is, as well as strategies that can be incorporated to assist with conflict resolution. Participants will discuss how to identify emotions, how to apologize, helpful forms of communication, what tactics to avoid, and how to de-escalate communication.
Developmental Assets
This session will go into detail about the five elements of the Developmental Relationships Framework. Participants will learn what each element means and why each one is essential. They also will explore how to recognize and evolve their prioritized elements to open a doorway to a greater understanding and utilization of developmental relationships. By the […]
FAST: Family and School Together
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.