This session will unpack quality and meaningful Health Education (HE) through evidence-based strategies and practical resources/activities to use in your classes with your students.
Kim Hordal-Hlewka is the Assistant Principal of Michael Phair Junior High that opened it’s doors in the fall of 2017. Kim has taught Kindergarten to Grade 9 Physical Education and was the Physical Education, Health and Comprehensive School Health Consultant for Edmonton Public Schools... Read More →
Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
210C
This workshop offers school-based or connected service providers engagement in reflective inquiry around how the experiences we’ve lived through impact and inform our ability to provide responsive mental health services for others. We examine the ways in which we might alchemize harmful accounts into emotionally corrective experiences for ourselves and our communities, promote our relational interdependence and cultivate the conditions within our school communities that allows us to be human AND boundaried.
The workshop is founded upon three essential questions: How might we might use our lived experience to positively inform the ways we lead through and amidst crisis? How might we increase self-awareness and inquiry into the therapeutic dynamics and situations that activate us? How might we be able to support our own emotional needs and healing to better support the therapeutic needs of our colleagues and the young people we serve?
-Create a brave, generative, and regulating space for educators to explore the interconnection between lived experience and their current ability to uphold trauma informed engagement. -Engage in community valued, trauma informed regulation strategies that positively impact the process of recovery and renewal. -Imagine new ways of incorporating recovery and renewal activities into therapeutic intervention, classrooms and curriculum, peer and student interactions, meeting structures and personal lives. -Identify individual and collective protective factors, community assets and stressors, significant loss, trauma and opportunities for growth
Educators and school leaders often carry the weight of their students’ struggles, alongside the pressure of their important work. The session will highlight how schools partner with Wellness Together to not only address student mental health but also expand staff’s effectiveness, not their workload.
Wellness Together’s turnkey program places culturally responsive mental health clinicians directly in schools, offering in-person counseling services and crisis intervention on campus, all while collaborating closely with school staff.
Session participants will hear from Wellness Together leaders and partners about the program’s data-driven, evidence-based interventions, which support students' emotional well-being through a trauma-informed, on-campus approach, without insurance requirements or other qualifiers.
Learn how Wellness Together’s integrated model improves overall school climate by providing timely, professional support, helping all students reach their full potential.
With over 15 years of experience in education and mental health, Robert Garcia leads operations at Wellness Together School Mental Health, the leader in on-campus, in-person, school-based mental health services in California. As Senior Director of Operations, he manages strategic... Read More →
Thursday October 10, 2024 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT
210C
In this workshop, our Mental health Access Program (CAL-MAP.org) team will describe a systematic framework for piloting interdisciplinary consultation efforts between school-based stakeholders and pediatric mental health access programs. As a result of this workshop, participants will be able to describe a collaboration model featuring ongoing needs assessment, as well as describe a menu of strategies aligned with this model, designed to support students with mental and behavioral health concerns.
Dr. Haack, associate professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (DPBS), is a licensed clinical psychologist with interests focused on 1) cultural influences to mental health conceptualization, assessment, and treatment, 2) accessible and culturally attuned... Read More →
Thursday October 10, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
210C
This session explores Peer Mentors' impact on student wellness. We'll dive into building an inclusive & supportive environment, fostering connections, and promoting mental health advocacy. Participants will walk away with a blueprint for success as we showcase a Peer Mentor program in action, an advocacy toolkit with steps to propose and launch your own program, and evidence-based strategies to strengthen student connection and a positive school culture.
Student Support Specialist, Laguna Beach High School
Megan Humphreys is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker working within education for the past 10 years. She has provided mental health support in a variety of settings, including elementary- high school and alternative education. Megan has led peer support programming for the past 4... Read More →
Alexis Mele is a high school counselor at Laguna Beach High School and an advisor of the LBHS Student Support Collective. She is a 12-year school counselor, a Nationally Board Certified Counselor, and holds her Associate Professional Clinical Counseling license. Alexis started her... Read More →
Friday October 11, 2024 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
210C
At the end of this session, the participants will have learned methods to improve the mental health of minoritized students by incorporating relatable lived experiences to create a sense of belonging in the higher education learning environment. 1) Lecture: Factors Contributing to the Student Dropping Out and Culture-Specific Issues Impacting the Retention of Under-represented Students 2) Workshop: Brainstorm Minoritized Student Needs, Discussions of Multicultural Curriculums, Applying Regional Examples to the Designs
Professor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Caroline is a lecturer in the Department of Kinesiology and Public Health at California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo. Before her work in higher education, she worked in both the nonprofit and private sectors. During her previous work as a researcher, she witnessed the upward... Read More →
Participants will take away strategies to meaningfully engage students PK- 3rd grade, map community assets, partner with local school districts, non profits, and public health agencies to partner and enroll families in mental and dental health supports, resources, and coverage in a way that increases participation and engagement in fun and meaningful ways.
