Dear Young Person: You Are Valued
This article from Equality Florida emphasize the need for each of us to advocate for safer schools where all young people are valued.
Trauma & Healing Awareness
Defending the Freedom of our LGBTQ+ Students to be Themselves
This toolkit helps schools be affirming places where all students are protected and empowered, and where they can learn, grow, and thrive. It includes guidance on articulating a shared vision of a LGBTQ+-inclusive future, navigating pushback during Pride month, and harnessing the power of youth voice.
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Depression in Youth
This brief video, which is included in Chenter for Childhood Resiliences’s CBT course, explains how depression shows up in youth and its impact.
Developing a Self-Care Plan
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 plan template you can download.
Developing Culturally Responsive Relationships with Your Students
This blog explores the importance of developing culturally responsive relationships with students. Culturally responsive teaching focuses on practitioners being culturally competent in order to authentically instruct students. It is important to build relationships through understanding. misunderstood
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Cultivating Resilience: Trauma in Schools
“Cultivating Resilience” is a podcast series that showcases thought leaders, mental health practitioners, and school leaders at all levels who are working to lessen the impact of trauma that students bring with them to school.
Cultural Inclusiveness and Equity WISE Resources
This site houses a compilation of resources that are referenced in the Cultural Inclusiveness and Equity WISE online course, which is a 3-part training package that includes a free self-paced online course, video library featuring practicing teachers and students, comprehensive resource collection and website for K-12 educators on mental health literacy. Resources include topics such as understanding and supporting students experiencing adversity, the impact of trauma and adversity on learning behavior, and classroom strategies to support students.
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Culturally Responsive Curriculum Scorecard Toolkit
This tool provides key questions for those accountable for moving classrooms and schools toward cultural responsiveness) and what should be addressed as they prepare for their next steps. The questions are designed to encourage a critical reflection on the process of scoring, identifying systemic barriers, opportunities, and supports for a culturally responsive curriculum, and planning the next steps.
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Cycle of Risk: The Intersection of Poverty, Violence, and Trauma; 2017 report
This report presents the need for both a rapid response and a long-term approach to reducing violence. By taking a comprehensive approach, there is continued caution, so that reform does not perpetuate the very inequities and conditions that have led to violence in our communities.
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Creating a Sense of Belonging: Young People Identify Ways to Build Welcoming Environments
This brief article outlines seven concrete ways to create a school environment in which youth of color know they belong.