Substance use impacts every facet of a person’s well-being, creating significant challenges in supporting student mental health and academic achievement. As illicit drugs become increasingly potent and readily available to young people, it is critical that school-based staff are prepared to respond. This session will provide an overview of the current landscape of teen substance
Archives: Learning Modules
Symbols in the Sand: Using Sand Tray to Promote Student Wellbeing
Sand tray is a unique tool that can help us connect with a child’s right brain in order to reason with the left. Using assorted miniatures symbolizing thoughts, experiences, memories, and feelings, students of all ages are invited to create a representation of their world contained in the tray, while simultaneously regulating their nervous system
Module 2: Building Bridges: Partnerships for Sustainable School Mental Health
Module 2: Building Bridges explores how partnerships with families, caregivers, community organizations, students, and mental health providers create sustainable, effective mental health initiatives.
Module 1: Laying the Foundation: Integrating Mental Health into School Systems
Module 1: Laying the Foundation equips participants with knowledge and strategies to embed mental health programs into school systems, aligning them with policies, workflows, and daily operations to create a sustainable foundation.
Cumulative Knowledge Check
The Do’s and Don’ts of Drug Education: Effective Substance Use Prevention for Students, Families, and School Staff
Substance use prevention involves the entire community: students, families, schools, and other community members, so every adult is responsible for the information they share with children. Instead of talking about drugs one time for 60 minutes, we will teach adults how to have 60 effective and proactive one-minute conversations with young people, empowering them to
Medicaid and Schools
This presentation targets any division or practitioner that is beginning to or continuing to bill Medicaid for reimbursable school services. The emphasis will be on the benefit of the Medicaid and Schools program to the school divisions for increasing access to and improving healthcare services (in schools) for students. While not trying to add more
Interfering Behaviors: Purposeful and Engaging Interventions
This presentation will explore evidence-based strategies, interventions, and create a toolbox of interventions that align with Multi-Tiered System of Supports, specifically at Tiers 2 and 3. Participants will also examine data tools to support gathering baseline data as well as progress monitoring.
Working with Students Who Demonstrate Interfering Behaviors
This presentation will provide a brief overview of the impact of trauma on student behavior. In addition, the presentation will outline resources and tiered interventions that help prevent and decrease the severity of interfering behaviors.
Section 504 Best Practices
The presentation will provide information on the legal requirements for Section 504, how to utilize data to make good decisions related to common Section 504 practices, how to write appropriate and data driven accommodations, and how to facilitate a good meeting.
