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Supporting Children of Incarcerated Parents: Addressing School-Based Bias and Stigma
Third Party and Department of Justice
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This webinar explores how schools and correctional facilities can better support children of incarcerated parents. Panelists discuss how educators can recognize and address their own implicit biases; create affirming spaces for children of incarcerated parents; and provide educational support for children, caregivers, and families of incarcerated parents.
STOP School-Based CVI Approaches – Safe Passage
Department of Justice and Third Party
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This session assists participants in identifying how school and community violence intervention (CVI) partnerships use school and community data - along with relationships between students, families, and school staff - to create a Safe Passage program. Safe Passage programs place trained and trusted adults in locations around the school where violence is prevalent. During the webinar, CVI experts share best practices and lessons learned from their own Safe Passage experiences and offer recommendations for communities looking to establish similar strategies.
STOP School-Based CVI Approaches – RISE Mentoring
Department of Justice and Third Party
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This webinar showcases steps taken to support students most likely to be disconnected from school prior to graduation. Leaders from Spokane Public Schools share key components, impacts, and lessons learned from the RISE Mentoring program, which engages youth with school conduct issues that would otherwise result in a suspension or expulsion.
Effective De-Escalation Strategies for School Resource Officers, Security Personnel, and School Staff in a K–12 Environment
Department of Justice
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This webinar features expert insights from the National De-escalation Training Center and introduces a comprehensive and nationally recognized de-escalation model to enhance conflict resolution skills of school safety stakeholders that can be utilized to create a safer school environment.
Lessons from the Field - Promising Strategies to Prevent Student Harassment and Bullying Behavior
Department of Education
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This webinar covers trends, impacts, and essential elements of effective solutions to bullying and harassing behavior. It includes a panel discussion that highlights strategies schools are using to prevent bullying behavior and provide supports to involved students to enhance their sense of safety and teach prosocial coping skills.
Lessons from the Field – Suicide Prevention: Building Protective Factors to Keep Students Safe
Department of Education
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This webinar provides the latest information on suicide trends among K-12 students. It shares related risk and protective factors and strategies schools can implement to support suicide prevention.
Prioritizing Teacher Well-Being
Department of Education
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This webinar explores the critical importance of maintaining and valuing teacher well-being and describes how effectively implementing initiatives to prioritize teacher well-being can positively impact school culture and student learning.
School Mental Health Virtual Learning Series: Culturally Responsive Instructional Supervision
Department of Health and Human Services and Third Party
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This webinar explores how to create a Culturally Responsive Ecosystem through teaching, school leadership, and instructional supervision, and describes Culturally Responsive Instructional Supervision (CRIS), including implementation barriers and solutions to implement CRIS. This event is part of a webinar series focused on advancing high quality, sustainable school mental health from a multi-tiered system of support, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive and equitable lens.