Hello WISP Collaborative Members,

Thank you all for attending the first WISP Mental Health based collaborative of the school year. It was a pleasure to have you join us and share your insights and experiences.

We appreciate your valuable contribution to the discussion and your support for the cause of school based mental health awareness and advocacy.

We look foward to seeing you again at our next collaborative. Please feel free to reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions, feedback, or suggestions.

Thank you!

RSVP for our November Collaborative Meeting!

Wednesday November 1, 2023; 10:00-11:30 AM

Additional 2023-2024 Collaborative Meetings:

Thursday, February 1, 2024

Thursday, May 2, 2024

All meetings will held via Zoom.

The Wellness in Schools Program would like to express gratitude towards the Alliance for a Healthier Generations for joining us during our September collaborative. We would like to extend a special thanks to Kristy Weber, Bethany Younkers, Craig Wethington, and Isabel Kashani Lara for hosting breakout rooms to explore the following topics: Trauma Informed Approaches, Family and Community Engagement, & Building Your Referral Pathway. Please explore the resources that were shared in each breakout room presentation below:

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1. Trauma Informed Practices Slideshow

• Using the Trauma-Informed Lens to Support Whole Child Initiatives - Applying the Trauma-Informed Lens to School Policies and Practices
• Applying the Trauma Informed Lens to Family Engagement
• Applying the Trauma Informed Lens to School Nutrition and Food Access
• Applying the Trauma Informed Lens to Health Education
• Applying the Trauma Informed Lens to Physical Education and Activity
• Applying the Trauma Informed Lens to Social-Emotional Health
• Applying the Trauma Informed Lens to Staff Well-Being
• Applying the Trauma Informed Lens to Tobacco-Free Schools
• Applying the Trauma Informed Lens to School Health Services
• HEART's 6 Principles of Trauma Informed Approach
• Responding to Students in the Learning Environment using a Trauma-Informed Approach
• Identity Map - English I Spanish
• Boundaries Tool - English I Spanish
• Forming Meaningful Relationships eLearning Curriculum
• Me Moments - English I Spanish
• Ready, Set, RISE Trauma-Informed Care and Educator Well-Being eLearning Curriculum

2. Community Family Engagement Slideshow

• Family Defined: LGBTQ+ Inclusive Definitions of Family
• Me Moments
• Momentos Mios
• Applying the Trauma-Informed Lens to Family Engagement Policies and Practices
• Enhancing Student Success Through Family Engagement elearning
• Family Networking Blog Series
• Identity Mapping
• Gathering Input From Families Action Planning Guide
• Mapping Resources to Support Food Access

3. Build Your Referral Pathway Slideshow

• Build Your Referral Pathway
• Resource Mapping Strategy
• Design Your Referral Forms
• Sample Self-Referral Form Template for Students
• Sample Self-Referral Form Template for Families
• Sample Self-Referral Form Template for Staff
• Choice Point Resource
• Think Cultural Health

The Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI) has allocated the Office of California Surgeon General $1 million to develop a trauma-informed training for early care and educational personnel.

Safe Spaces: Foundations of Trauma-Informed Practice for Educational and Care Settings is a free, online training designed to help early care providers, TK-12 educators, and other school personnel recognize and respond to trauma informed stress in children. Safe Spaces is designed to engage the learner with case examples, strategies, videos, and practices - each varied according to the developmental stage served.

To learn more, watch the following video:

The Attendance Awareness Toolkit provides ready-made materials that administrators, staff, teachers, and community partners can use for outreach to families and provides tools that schools can use to assess their own attendance practices and guide their improvement.

The R.E.A.L. Framework is designed to help educators and their community partners integrate attention to attendance and engagement into school daily operations. The goal is not to add more work to school staff who are stretched thin, but to enhance the effectiveness of what they already do.

West Contra Costa Unified School District Attendance Awareness Toolkit

September

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Trauma-Informed Frameworks in Mental Healthcare

Virtual

Charlie Health is hosting a continuing education event on integrating trauma-informed frameworks into your mental health practice

Registration

September

23

3rd Annual Know The Signs: Remembering Those We've Lost

Contra Loma Regional Park

1200 Frederickson Ln.

Antioch, CA

Please join NAMI Contra Costa for a compassionate engagement of diverse speakers talking through a lived experience lens lifting the names of our loved ones lost to suicide with special emphasis on our youth. NAMI will raise awareness of the "Knowing The Signs" program.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact Gigi Crowder at [email protected]