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Healthy Minds
Educators share best practices for promoting mental wellness in schools
Healthy Minds
Educators share best practices for promoting mental wellness in schools
November | December 2022
Creating the conditions for mental wellness
The mental health needs of our students were on the rise pre-COVID and are now at a crisis point. It’s time for adults to shift our mindset and structure our schools with mental wellness as our foundation. Presented are evidence-based and low-cost strategies that we can start implementing today.
Creating the conditions for mental wellness
By Kate Hazarian
By Kate Hazarian
Sustaining tiered mental health options and collaborations
Critical Educationally Related Mental Health Services are delivered daily through established partnerships and consortium models all across California, ensuring access for youth with some of the most complex mental health needs that significantly impact their ability to benefit from their education.
By Aaron Benton and Veronica Coates
By Aaron Benton and Veronica Coates
Elements of consideration
Elements of consideration
Val Verde Unified School District has invested in a robust mental health program for all students. The district currently employs a total of 31 therapists, four supervisors and 10 student interns who provide tiered mental health services for students and families within the district.
By Sheri Stevens Parker, Aimee Garcia and Mark LeNoir
Navigating a critical moment
Schools within LAUSD established a pandemic-informed wellness and improvement initiative that developed SEL competencies and anti-bias perspectives among school leadership teams, teachers, staff, families and nearly 10,000 students.
Navigating a critical moment
Schools within LAUSD established a pandemic-informed wellness and improvement initiative that developed SEL competencies and anti-bias perspectives among school leadership teams, teachers, staff, families and nearly 10,000 students.
By Jose Rodriguez, Man W. Chow, Aaron Ferrell and Cyrene St. Amant
Multifaceted approach to mental health and wellness
The Los Alamitos Unified School District provides a robust program in academics, the arts, activities and athletics. Our focus on the four As celebrates and provides a way for all students to be engaged in school. Behind these four As is also
a strong effort to build positive character in all students and support their physical, mental and social-emotional health.
The Los Alamitos Unified School District provides a robust program in academics, the arts, activities and athletics. Our focus on the four As celebrates and provides a way for all students to be engaged in school. Behind these four As is also a strong effort to build positive character in all students and support their physical, mental and social-emotional health.
By Allen Mendrin and Nichole Pichardo
By Allen Mendrin and Nichole Pichardo
We are not OK
We are not OK
Teachers, administrators and counselors are dealing with an entire generation of traumatized young people. And, instead of this shared trauma being a common ground to stand upon, it became a further source of division between educators and the children they so genuinely want to help. Recognizing the problem is the first step, but stopping there simply leads to defeatism. The question becomes, where do we go from here?
By Mary Lindsley
By Mary Lindsley
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