Wellness Together's 8th Annual Student Mental Wellness Conference: Full Schedule

arrow_back View All Dates

10:15am PDT

A Strengths-Based Approach to Understanding and Supporting Youth with Trauma

Friday October 11, 2024 10:15am - 11:15am PDT

With the widespread recognition of trauma’s harmful impacts, especially after COVID-19 lockdowns, schools have been starting some efforts to support student mental health and wellbeing. However, this is often through a deficit lens on students and their families. In this session, participants will be empowered to see students in multifaceted lenses to create humanizing learning experiences, authentic connection, and paths to healing.

Participants will learn about how trauma affects the adolescent brain.
Participants will learn about paths and supports to healing.
Participants will acquire skills to support students with histories of trauma by focusing on their inherent strengths and capabilities
Participants will see an example of how one parent uses restorative parenting with her child

Speakers

Christobelle Tan

Project Specialist, San Diego County Office of Education

Janelle Lopez

Parent Liaison, San Diego County Office of Education

I serve as the Parent & Family Liaison for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Support for the Whole Child & Community Design department at the San Diego County Office of Education. I lead SEL workshops for families in addition provide technical support to schools and districts. My work... Read More →

Friday October 11, 2024 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
209A

Student and Community Mental Health

1:45pm PDT

Empowering our Youth to Drive Change: How to Build a Multi-tiered System of Support for Student Wellness with Student Voice Leading the Way

Friday October 11, 2024 1:45pm - 2:45pm PDT

209A

Within this session, presenters will share how student voice and leadership drove change that led to a creation of a robust multi-tiered system of support for student wellness. Participants will hear from a multi-disciplinary team on how, by examining existing systems and working with youth to create new systems that empower and promote student experience at the center, district culture was able to move from a culture of sharing information with students to a culture of leading together. Participants will utilize the Student Voice Continuum, from Californians for Justice to reflect on their current practices for using youth voice and identify where they are on the continuum and where they would like to be. Participants will become familiar with practical steps they can take to lead together with their students to build a MTSS model for student wellness.

Speakers

Jillian Beall

Director of Educational Services, Student Wellness, Sonoma Valley Unified School District

Camille Garcia

District Social Worker, Sonoma Valley Unified School District

Kim Bellach

MTSS Counselor, Sonoma Valley Unified School District

Missy Jackson

Friday October 11, 2024 1:45pm - 2:45pm PDT
209A

School & District-Wide Leadership

3:00pm PDT

Student Drug and Alcohol Intervention and Suspension Alternative

Friday October 11, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

209A

To provide meaningful and appropriate interventions, HJUHSD has implemented a Zero-Hour Drug and Alcohol Program as an alternative to suspension for first-time offenses led by school social workers.
Participants will:
Explore substance use trends and examine the effectiveness of early intervention with secondary students.
Analyze the process of creating a suspension alternative and consider the results of an active program.

Speakers

James Jay

Intervention Coordinator, Hanford Joint Union High School District

James Jay is the district Intervention Coordinator for Hanford Joint Union High School District. He was a classroom teacher for eleven years and has served the last seven years as an administrator at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels. James earned a BA in History... Read More →

Friday October 11, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
209A

School & District-Wide Leadership

Wellness Together's 8th Annual Student Mental Wellness Conference