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TransYouth Family Allies

August 5, 2024

Many educators and administrators have limited prior experience with accommodating transgender and gender-variant youth. This website helps when planning for the best interests of the child, as well as for helping other students, parents, teachers, staff, school boards, and the media understand the circumstances and your school’s response. Their materials are available as both web pages and printable PDFs. You may print, link to, or distribute these documents by mail or electronically (without additions or modifications per their copyright notice).

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The Toolkits: Assess, Act, & Audit

August 5, 2024

Based on our Straight A Safety Improvement Model, these free toolkits for school communities in each active area of focus: Assess, Act and Audit.
The toolkits are designed to facilitate conversations, problem-solving, and partnerships in your school community.

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Surveys and Tools for Schools from Panorama Education

August 5, 2024

Panorama offers various surveys, tools, webinars around MTSS, RTI, PBIS, SEL, and culture and climate. Download surveys from their site to use with families, students and staff.

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Student and GSA Resources

August 5, 2024

LGBTQ+ student-led clubs and GSAs (Gender and Sexuality Alliances) are leading the work to create safe and LGBTQ-inclusive schools, and student organizers are the nation’s most powerful base for creating change. Find out how to start a GSA, get free resources to support your GSA’s work, take part in the Day of Silence, Solidarity Week, and join the national network of more than GSAs by registering your student club.

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Student Well-Being Survey

August 5, 2024

Measure and Understand Student Well-Being With a Research-Backed Instrument: Sometimes referred to as “youth positive development” or as “indicators of thriving,” student well-being is a predictor of outcomes including educational achievement, mental health, economic prosperity, and relationship success. By asking students to reflect on their well-being through surveys, schools and districts can gather actionable data to better support students socially and emotionally. Measuring well-being can contribute to a “whole child” educational approach, signal to students and their families the importance of mental health, help focus limited counseling resources on at-risk students, and inform a community-wide response to the trauma of student suicide.

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Social Emotional & Behavior Academy Toolkit

August 5, 2024

Compiled resources about culturally responsive SEL classroom strategies and information. Includes a n implementation Toolkit, which serves as a consistent structure to outline processes and document progress. These interactive tools and resources correspond to each step of the continuous improvement process and emphasize the importance of coherence and systems-level thinking.

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Stop Bullying

August 5, 2024

StopBullying.gov is a U.S. Department of Education federal website that provides information on prevention and intervention for children, teens, and adults to respond to bullying. Under the resources tab, Get Help Now, provides specific strategies and tools to inform and guide individuals to help end or prevent bullying.

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SHAPE System Assessments

August 5, 2024

The SHAPE System offers many tools to improve school mental health systems, including assessments and profiles on school mental health, trauma-responsiveness, culture and equity. Additionally, it highlights assessments available to state/territory and pre-school accounts. To access and complete assessments, create an account and register as an individual, school, preschool, district, state/territory, or entity.

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Self-Healing Communities

August 5, 2024

This article presents a model with demonstrated success in improving rates of many interrelated and intergenerational health and social problems by investing in the people most at risk and reducing and preventing the root cause of these problems: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). The Self-Healing Communities Model (SHCM) builds the capacity of communities to
intentionally generate new cultural norms and thereby improve health, safety and productivity for current and future generations.

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Self-Care Assessment

August 5, 2024

To develop your self-care plan, you will identify what you value and need as part of your day-to-day life (maintenance self-care) and the strategies you can employ when or if you face a crisis along the way (emergency self-care). This website has lots of information on caring for ourselves in high-stress jobs, including a self-care care assessment to download.

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