Presenters Lucille Eber, Ed.D., PBIS National TA Center Liaison & Midwest PBIS Network Coordinator with Kelly McCauley, LSCSW, Director of Evidence-Informed Initiatives at KVC Health Systems
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study revealed the high prevalence of childhood trauma and its pervasive effects across the lifespan. Mental illness such as depression has increased from previous generations, and the suicide rate is at a 30-year high. We’ll start by looking at this from a child and teacher’s point of view in the classroom. What do they experience when trauma or mental health issues interfere? What fundamental needs arise for both? Then we will expand to a broader and interconnected view of what that calls for from the school and community, using the tiered prevention logic of MTSS. Educators will walk away with concrete strategies to benefit themselves and children in their classrooms, and an understanding of what steps we all must take to support students and educators through one common plan within an interconnected systems framework.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to describe:
• trauma’s impact on students’ learning, behavior, social-emotional development and ability to form relationships;
• the effect of secondary trauma on educators, and the need for personal self-care strategies and workplace supports;
• core features of connecting the classroom to building- and district-wide processes, to community partnerships to create an interconnected approach:
• concrete steps for creating readiness to engage in an interconnected systems framework (eg. identifying: teams, data, screening and diagnostic instruments, role clarification and vetting interventions).
Participants will be able to practice:
· strategies and interventions to simultaneously enhance educators’ own regulation and self-care and help children in the classroom;
· the moment-by-moment assessment strategy to Identify triggers and response patterns to inform interventions.
Lucille Eber, Ed.D., PBIS National TA Center Liaison & Midwest PBIS Network Coordinator with
Kelly McCauley, LSCSW, Director of Evidence-Informed Initiatives at KVC Health Systems
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