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Social Emotional Student Supports

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Presentation on the District's Social Emotional Supports for students.

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any members thank you for the opportunity for us to update you and present on the developing social emotional support here in the district as we just talked about symptoms of depression and anxiety with suicide now being the number two cause death among our youth as a result it's a huge priority for our school really important for us is the ability to develop the whole Child by it and looking at the ways that we can support our children academically behaviorally as well as the social emotional and supports I think are the biggest and most important thing because we want to make sure that students are able to take risk and sometimes make mistakes and were able to support them so today as we start talking about our levels of support a tiered model and the steer support really kind of looks at how we increase our support as soon as me so at the first here are the universal arts for all students of these are things that all students have access to and their effective for about 80 to 90% of our students for students who are this is not effective for we start looking at more targeted supports and that can be maybe 10 to 15 percent of our kid and at the very top we have our intensive supports for students who need even more support and as the increasing intensity and frequency I'm of the supports goes up so does the monitoring so here in pvpusd we do have developing tears of behavior and social emotional support at our first year we have PBIS which is positive behavior interventions in we have currently six elementary schools and all three intermediates who have kind of gone into the first year of a proper strategy to Define teach and reward positive school-wide expectations we have worked through with art of discipline social emotional curriculum like I am me that was just presented as well as three of our schools on who are not doing PBIS are piloting social emotional learning curriculum at the elementary level classroom guidance lessons we have a ton of award incentive programs for Eye Care many opportunities for leadership at all levels and we also have a lot of school activities and active supervision of our students at the second-tier if the universal supports don't work for students we also have increasing ways that we can kind of look at individual support so that would include Student Success team meetings or SST it could be acting out because it needs a little bit of a check in once in awhile I'm checking check out you might hear that term which basically means the student will check in with an adult kind of set the day and then at the end of the day check out to see how the day went as well as sometimes it's a referral to a counselor or therapist or group and at the very top tier we start to collaborate with either physician may be a mental health provider looking at Community Resources maybe if there's something outside of the school that the student in the family might need for support and possibly an assessment when looking at the mental health support we need to consider the various component that contribute to it are individuals over all social emotional well-being we look at the individual student School stop in the parents and it's important that those three groups work closely together to collaborate and develop systems of supports for those individuals and a mental health supports that we how far District dr. coton de artiste and some of them but the first level which is the first year of support we have classroom guidance dropping counseling support by default the teachers and the principal mental health literacy which includes assembly school activities and and then student wellness centers at the tier 2 level we had at Dusty's which is a Student Success team meetings which allows us to have a process to identify her students were potentially at red and we use things like attendance Behavior teacher input to help us gather that information and I'm through that process were able to individualize how we're going to support the student weather. Be through Individual Counseling group counseling Behavior contracts and check-in check-out monitoring and then the tier 3 the most intensive levels of support include Crisis Support academic Alternatives and potentially discuss meant so that kind could include a 504 assessment or special good evening Emily Chauvin thank you all for having me and also thank you for supporting our program so I'm the director of Cassie and Cassie stands for counseling and support services for youth I won't go on and I'll buy just three sons and Cassie's a daughter I never had found in Northern California and where nonprofit that contracts with varying schools we partner with them we hired a therapist they find us and Them that there was on site so it's been a great program we've been there for 9 years and and this fall in 2017 we started partnering with your District so we're really excited to be here and I think the Kathy concept we've created a new end of the is Cassie SoCal a creative name and the reason I talked about Northern California is because we have 9 years of data and so we collect data we're really data driven you really care about the kids but the stuff I'm going to show you tonight cuz it says a lot about just kind of distilling down to what we actually do and what I'm seeing here is what we seen up North for the past 9 years you guys are exactly on track I'm wearing school districts at very much parallel you or in Palo Alto Los gatos-saratoga District look at a lot like yours and what I'm seeing here is what we've seen for the last 9 years so I think that's a really positive thing turns out that we're here to support it so in the elementary school we have to therapist that that cover for the 10 elementary school so they each are one day a week at each Elementary School So based on that model we wanted to really see how can we expect the most students so the thing we started with was classroom lessons we presented to pretty much every classrooms with presented to 400 classroom silver 4500 students in elementary school and what that allowed Us in the beginning of the school year and we are still doing those the therapist got in front of every single student she got to kind of get an idea what the school culture is what the kids look like what the kids might need and the kids to meet her they know hey that's another person that I can get for support she's also out on the playground she's out on recess she's out at lunch time so they kind of have that relationship and the classroom lessons I'll give you a quick brief when they're on daring topic and we kind of do it age appropriate we go to pre-k all the way to 5th grade the lessons can be on friendship and one of the ones that we do it is about how to make a friend with appropriate how do you resolve conflict and we started with a video of Toy Story a little clip when is first introduced to what even if you guys remember back then but but he was not nice to buzz and didn't want him there and stuff so we kind of go through that so it's a really great way the kids get these Concepts so it's a wonderful thing into doing the classroom lessons we also see kids individually and the elementary schools and that's where this breakdown comes in so we've seen about a hundred kids and we're still seeing them individually every week for counseling and the 10 schools elementary schools the gender breakdown is about 68% male and that's exactly what we see and all of our schools you'll see in the high school what kind of flips but an elementary level more boys are kind of escalating up over there acting out and they're getting the attention in there more support services when they're younger Middle School and High School it reverses cuz I think it's more insightful reflect and it's just that this how it's shown these statistics this is exactly just peed these are your 10 on them just here from September 17th through February 28th so very very accurate that's what I'm saying is a parallel so I think that's a good to see if there was a big jump or something different but you guys are right on track the optic break breakdown of these are just the kids we see we like it's a parallel the district I think that's important it's it's close it's not right on but it we like to see that it is the top presenting issues so when a student comes in a can have more than one presenting issue there was kind of marks down why are they coming to see us these are again very typical an appropriate Elementary School issues it's a majority social skills anxiety not making friends. Nation ships and those are what we work on in our individual in small groups in addition to go in the classrooms the other two things that the therapist in elementary school is consult with parents we seen it done maybe a hundred parent consultations to date so the parents can cut talk to us whether or not we see their student we understand the culture. Only have developmentally elementary kids we understand the culture in this community this is where the therapist are so they can come in and get advice on their student they may or may not then you should have nazia and the elementary level all the students that we see must have parental consent the parents are involved parents know we're seeing them it's all on board I also think that's part of reducing or stigma we're really big on metal health is here when your kid is struggling elementary through High School you get him a tutor you get him an SSAT tutor you get them all these kind of support service that they're not pitching you get my pitching coach you get him a water polo coach she get them obviously if they're having difficulties social come see Kathy therapist so that's kind of the message we always want to go Cypress Run High School and again this is just your two high schools in your District to the high schools look a little different we have a full-time therapist is a week at HPV in a pain to the more the majority of her work is actually seen kids individually kids are referring to when they can come knock on our door and they come in to see her for individual sessions again you'll see the breakdown it's about a third female that's always see it all of our school the ethnic breakdown and the top presenting issues they can have more than one but it's usually anxiety academic and depression symptoms those who I see and every High School up north and I'm seeing it here that the two schools here in addition to seeing kids individually they each run the wellness or students that are there on the what are the school just opened it a couple weeks ago TV High I just opened a couple weeks ago but we spent about the other TV I had it opened all school year so our therapist their mans the Student Center they call the wellness center there about 2 to 3 hours a week sometimes too. as per day sometimes more and the great thing about that Center is it's a safe place kids can come in she's there but they need to come get exposed to her and we have tons of resources on how to deal with stress for exams how to talk to your parents out of break up you don't have to ask her they can kind of just take the stuff and they see her there and then they can come see her later and it just showed at the high school we do a lot of parent consoles like I said we can talk to parents whether they see if they're not there to see this or not we can salt with a lot of stuff on the issues were staying with the student so it's a very much of a collaborative approach to instead of us being in private practice beside the school or on the school campus we really want to be a part of the partnership's really strong the kids can come in Freely it's working out really well that's what I want to touch on the we also are Kathy therapist at the high school then involved in a couple trainings the districts been very fortunate and with our partnership and we go to the trainings on leadership and resiliency for kids part of Kathy's training as we train our staff on different issues we did social networking Child Protective Services reporting and we involved the the staff here at the district we also screen the documentary in Lori called angst which was about kind of normalizing and resolving teen and younger children anxiety and they had a panel afterwards it was really well received and we put that the PTA meetings as well thank you Liz so really importantly we talked about the collaboration not just supports for students but also supports for staff so as was mentioned stuff consultations on student issues our staff has already consult with Cassie on over 800 cases on but are school counselors are also doing those consultations to support the staff when they have a challenging situation or they're Unsure how they can support students additionally classroom guidance presentations which are great for teachers to hear Wendy staff is the council staff of the mental health staff is presenting for teachers they're able to kind of see and hear exactly what it is the message that the counselors are able to send to the students and they can support that message as well aligned to r a B20 to four fix simply bill on suicide prevention and intervention this year we revised and we find our suicide intervention process we also have a training that is scheduled for April for all of our counselor in psychologist lead teachers and administrators on so they go through kind of what would happen if we would have a completed suicide kind of how would we deal with with that crisis in addition to what we should be doing in terms of preventive support crisis training and addition to that kind of a threat some training so how do we determine whether or not a student has made a threat or if they pose a threat and kind of helping our staff work through that and what steps should we take in order to ensure that we're protecting all of our students and also supporting students who maybe I'm making I need support again we had teachers and staff were going to our PBIS training so are participating schools all have small teams that go to the county office they have gone 3 times this year on the coaches are the administrators have gone an additional 3 times but they come back they collaborate and then they bring that to their larger School staff I'm so they can educate them and then also collaborate on what that's going to look like and implementation at their School site and then last professional development so in partnership with Cassie we had a couple of professional development of our staff in addition to our staff going out and getting other mental health from supports professional development and then not to forget I'm a really important piece to the puzzle is our parents and I'll give you one make sure that our parents are able to kind of walk with us and collaborate on as we come up with interventions for individual students so they really important so when parents kind of don't know what to do the mental health staff counselors Cassie psychologist where to consult with parents in addition to parent meeting at reference a couple of times and last night we had an amazing parent University speaker at dr. Levine but all of our parent universities which is a great partnership have been kind of more towards wellness and social emotional this year and I think I found a she would like to continue to go in that direction on school sites are having parent education night and then an awesome resource for the South Bay South Bay families connected so not only is it away say that's full of information there's also parent groups as well as a speaker series that they're having and we send out information through the principles weeklies I'm often and then Community Resources out there for parents so a lot of support that are in development you can see we're really in a better place than we were a year ago and we're trying to really look at what our students in our communities needs are and really trying to develop a program that's going to be effective for everyone so thank you very much for the opportunity thank you a barber you have any questions or comments so for the middle schools they have the tier-1 they have the TV is right and then they also have the parent education piece which is really have me like last night we went but we have middle school toys that I can Middle School push besides when you get credit if he if you go and watch it but do we don't have the I don't know what else do we have as far as the other tears with relationships what we have an elementary in in high school so it looked at me so here's the that's where that is we will be bringing a proposal the next two months back to the board because we collectively see a hole at the Intermediate School level and we don't want to rush into a proposal to something our team has been working on feverishly so we're going to be bringing a proposal forward that you are in your question dead on that are intermediate school does not have some of the supports that are Elementary high school if picked up recently and then the other thing so when my kids are middle school and I did go to a lot of the parent you know presentations that you got credit for PG-13 remember I mean honestly I went to that they were also good that I would go and I would learn something new every time and those were primarily put on at least at that point which is been a few years by counselors and therapist in Turkey that would just do a free night doctor door and the Cubs a couple times Greg Allen and do we are we still using our local therapists are we do we prefer them Stiller how how do they play into this different model we have now so we still are referring to community resources that are out there I'm and I do know that sells School sites have brought in communities to do parent education nights for their specific sites you know we've kind of like the principles have a little leeway on that instead of making their decisions but you know were also open to supporting that work as well so if principles ever need resources and they want to bring somebody and then we would support that out of our office then I'll ask question is we did get it email from Jen and no the start the Start program which she want to make sure we were all aware of all the mental health parts that the county is I was trying to support schools with so I don't know if we've ever had to use it or where it's part of our will he already do it is larger to the start team is actually out of it current of mental health and so when I was putting together the crisis and threat assessment training I actually started with our start team and I said we can you do and so sad we're going to have to cancel the afternoon because Everest recent events the start team has been very slick there spread very very thin so they actually referred me to someone else who's going to start working on their team next year and so that is the person who's going to be coming to do arthritis estimate raining in the afternoon on the 20th of April yes why not go with Suzanne said about the middle school to me that's just it's not a whole it's like a I don't know what it is it's ridiculous because schoolers I just got the shaft with everything everywhere it's just part of being a middle schooler but drop High School student I think knows about that you're going to middle school and try to walk into a school office Community counselor it's it's not easy to do it might be impossible to do at some schools and I don't mean any of our specific but just kind of generally and so really like that has to be just a giant giant giant priority whether our school psychologist or using it if at the elementary level to free up some resources at the middle school I don't know if you guys are the Smart Ones you know figure it out but to me that's just critical and if you want to ask what is so-so boys are are the main focus in elementary school and girls are the main focus at high school so what happens in the middle and then why are boys culturally that most likely to be more violent that they're getting the least or seeking out the for at least when they're older so it just seems very strange the middle school is going to the high school when you turn about 12 or so while you can cut into she account on your own so the elementary-age boys are going to get suggested to have counseling hey you're acting out you're being disruptive you're not tracking go on in and then as you get more insightful and they and people can more thoughtful need to come in on your own because we're going to respect you and do you want counseling the girls are like you have me I want counseling the boys not so much I'm just saying big picture I think it's something to keep working towards and I think it Kathy we work really hard three boys so I'm always I'm a therapist I'm always getting the boys in there and so I think having us on campus we do see more boys in the general population because we were there and we know that the boys need more and they're not going to come in with a pinstripe. They're going to come in presenting is kind of a zit punitive thing for counseling so we try to call over time with Kathy and schools we called we switched on that Counseling of the time for you to be thought when you can come in and you don't come and just because you were aggressive and assertive in class cuz you're sad and depressed and anxious just like the girl next to you and you were afraid to say it and you can come in as a boy and we'll talk to you about that if my boy platform beds are all grown and somewhat somewhat healthy I'll let go the at my fellow board members in. Ross's comments on Middle School clearly we need to do more there but I guess what struck me in the visits the campuses were Cassie is is that once we put a Cassie counselor in their skin like fills up almost immediately and so it seems like we don't have enough resources on the campuses for the kids because it's close something they need and they were taking advantage of me so thanks for bringing limited resources that we do have here but I do think we need more to answer this question quickly so in the general United States of America 20% of kids are always struggle with mental health needs and so schools are not mental health their schools but about twenty percent the kids should receive Services hope your school can cover about 20% you're doing okay and so what each high school we should see for 500 kids throughout the year and right now we're staying maybe a hundred at each school so so when I do think there's room but with a great start and there's always going to be more need then we can served but we're school not a mouth is only thing you try to keep it at 20% and with two or three therapists Beach High School you totally can that's why I push for more therapy. Rossman anything you want to add not what I want what I would add it is sometimes for first semester in the middle and sometimes for last listen example of where were you on the first side for Southern California and if you're going to be first on something first time trying to address mental health might be the place to be first so I know I appreciate our Park Ship & Beyond the partnership I appreciate our entire ad service team bringing this and pushing it knowing that this isn't a place that comfortably goes first and this one we went pretty hard and really appreciate that leadership and that's a bold that bold step and list for you delivering on your end because if that would not have been delivered well something good could have gone away based on a poor implementation and it's it's really good right now numbers clearly iron I need to chew on the numbers we just have right now because I was just running some real quickly on the percentages besides I'm in almost every group except for those identified as two or more races there is a completely disproportionate representation across the different racial ethnic groups so something's happening and I think it's important that we not now not right this moment but the dive deeper right cuz there is is something around kind of either culturally relevant approaches or the ways in which different students from different racial ethnic backgrounds are experiencing are particular District differently and what's interesting is it shifts similarly from elementary to high school still never gets proportionate it's always disproportion except for that one particular group so I will look more at and I'll be very curious you know further on site very grateful that we're here but like I said just something's happening to the phenomena here isn't just natural it's something around the ways in which different students experience these different types of stressors or mental health needs and maybe even how culturally they are on reacting we're not reacting so anyhow that's my sociologist lens but I thought I would say it's a longer or at a school district to correct this cultural differences and figure out how to get it other cultures that are aren't coming in to us isn't it our staff is at the way we're presenting it so I think in this distance so I know you just said it I think there's something about probably how we do it in every Community regardless of race or ethnicity has its own Culture by any I just want to point out that clearly there's there's something there with that we really appreciated that you're here great job you guys Round of Applause please brother

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