In the video “Nonviolent Communication with Dr. Roxy Manning,” Dr. Manning discusses the principles and practices of nonviolent communication (NVC). She explains how NVC can be used to improve interpersonal relationships, resolve conflicts, and foster empathy and understanding through compassionate and clear communication techniques.
This article explores the collaboration between Springfield, IL high schools and a local hospital’s mental health services to meet the needs of students.
The “Trauma-Informed Care” page on the MTSS4Success website provides resources and guidance for implementing trauma-informed practices within Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS). It highlights strategies to create supportive environments for students affected by trauma, emphasizing the importance of understanding trauma’s impact on learning and behavior.
Students need to be able to be themselves at school—and that’s where affinity groups come in. A group of students who share an identity are going to relate to each other in ways they can’t with peers who can’t or don’t understand their experience. It’s about safety and, in some cases, about fundamental issues of injustice.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology comprising a five-tier model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid. Use the resources on this website and short video in staff and family presentations to share information on how students’ need for safety and belonging is vital in their success in school.
The MedStarWISE resources page offers various tools and materials to promote wellness and improve work environments for healthcare professionals. It also includes a resource library and educator wellbeing workbook
Article presents a theoretic framework for understanding racism on 3 levels: institutionalized, personally mediated, and internalized. This framework is useful for raising new hypotheses about the basis of race-associated differences in health outcomes, as well as for designing effective interventions to eliminate those differences, and provides allegories to help illustrate the impacts of the different levels of racism.
Levels of Racism: a theoretical framwork and a gardner’s tale Read More »
What does it take to build a healing-centered school district? Healing is much more than any one program – it’s the environment, relationships, & orientation we bring to work every day. From reevaluating school district policies to developing trauma training for staff to providing healing supports to administrators, we’ve launched initiatives to become more healing-centered. Join Liz Dozier and Maurice Swinney for a discussion on the learnings from our journey – from successful signs of healing to the obstacles & challenges.
Learning from Building a Healing Centered District Read More »
It’s never too early or too late to talk with children about the dangers of substance use. In this episode, Maria Rahmandar, MD, an attending physician in the Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Lurie Children’s and the Medical Director of the Substance Use and Prevention Program, discusses how parents can help prevent drug and alcohol use in their children and offers strategies for helping kids who have already developed a substance use disorder.
Kids’ Wellness Matters Podcast Ep. 5: How to Handle Teenage Substance Use Read More »
Kimberlé Crenshaw, a civil rights advocate and professor at UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, talks about intersectional theory, the study of how overlapping or intersecting social identities—and particularly minority identities—relate to systems and structures of discrimination. This video provides a clear and concise way to explain what intersectionality is and why it is important for schools to understand it.
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