How to Support Transgender Students
Short video that highlights the voices of trans and gender nonconforming students talking about what they need from schools in order to feel welcome and supported.
Whole School Prevention Planning
Key Practices for Community Schools Transformation
The six key practices for school transformation are illustrated on this infographic from the Community Schools Forward Framework, informed by both research and practice. The framework shows the integrated nature of the key practices and emphasizes the enabling conditions (i.e., trusting relationships, inclusive decision-making, a shared vision, and actionable data) and supportive infrastructure that must be in place for effective implementation.
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Gender Inclusive Schools FAQs
FAQs developed by NASP and Gender Spectrum to guide school psychologists in their daily practice as they consult with teachers, administrators, and caregivers on ways to ensure that schools are welcoming, safe, and gender inclusive.
Cultivating Resilience in Schools Toolkit
The Cultivating Resilience in Schools toolkit is intended to be used by school-based leadership teams, which include representation across all areas and key collaborators, to establish systems and structures for building resilient schools and learning communities. It should be used in consideration of contextual, cultural, and social factors unique to each organization and everyone within the organization. Its comprehensive approach help makes connections and authentic relationships among educators, students and families, and promote positive school climate and culture, with an emphasis on classroom culture, safety and wellness.
The Spectrum of Trauma-Savvy Practice (worksheet)
When examining building and district-wide practices, it is common for ratings in all four of the categories. The goal of this worksheet is to identify both your areas of strength as well as those areas still in need of improvement. As you
reflect on each category and definition, there is a space provided to allow you to document your current practices either as an individual, building, or district with the ultimate goal of becoming trauma-invested.
The book, Fostering Resilient Learners, presents case studies, research, stories, and practical, easy-to-implement strategies to help students living with trauma thrive in the classroom. The book includes strategies to help education professionals build strong relationships and create a safe space to enable students to learn at high levels, and adopt a strengths-based approach that helps professionals recalibrate how destructive student behaviors are viewed and to perceive what students need to break negative cycles. Check out their website for lots more information. www.fosteringresilientlearners.org
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Decarceration Begins with School Discipline Reform
Many educators are fighting against criminalizing students and are using trauma-informed and restorative justice practices to shift paradigms. Trauma-informed practices must be intentional and focused on emotional calm and stability for students during a time of community trauma. For this change in thinking, educators must realize how the punitive discipline actions demanded of them are harmful.
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Mental Health Literacy Live and Asynchronous Trainings
Mental Health Literacy (MHL) is a critical piece of education and a proactive solution to the current mental health crisis. MHL includes four core components: understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health; understanding common mental health disorders, signs & symptoms, and treatments; understanding how to seek help effectively; and understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction.
MHLC’s leveled certification model addresses these barriers by helping individuals and communities gain confidence and competence around a topic they might otherwise avoid. Check out their website to view their live and asynchronous training options.
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Mental Health Literacy Toolkit for Youth
Download a MHL toolkit for youth to help young people who want to make a
difference in mental health. The toolkit was created with real youth voices and lived experiences. Participants gain knowledge, tools, and encouragement to be advocates for mental wellness in their lives and communities, and learn the core framework of mental health literacy. MHLC also offers live workshops.
Mental Health Literacy (MHL) is a critical piece of education and a proactive solution to the current mental health crisis. MHL includes four core components: understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health; understanding common mental health disorders, signs & symptoms, and treatments; understanding how to seek help effectively; and understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction.
Mental Health and High School Curriculum Guide (Version 3)
The Mental Health and High School Curriculum Guide developed in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association provides a complete set of educational tools to increase understanding of mental health and mental disorders among both students and teachers. The guide focuses on training teachers to be comfortable with their own knowledge of mental health and mental disorders, and then empowers the teachers to share this knowledge with their students through a curriculum delivered in a multiple module format. The program uses a variety of interactive sessions that help to promote dialogue among students, as well as with their teachers. Discussing mental health and mental illness in a supportive, familiar environment enables youth to feel safe, ask questions, gain knowledge, combat stigma and develop their own opinions of the world around them. The teachers training materials are provided for free, and many of the other materials are incorporated into this curriculum site.
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Mental Health Literacy: Definition, Importance, and Impact
This website helps build understanding and increasing individuals’ mental health literacy. Today we understand that mental health is a crucial and inseparable component of overall health. With a high degree of mental health literacy, individuals and communities are empowered to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness and to know where to go to seek support for mental health issues.
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