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School-based Mental Health Professionals Roundtable
Attention all school counselors, school psychologists, school social workers, LMHCs and community partners. Please join us from 8:00 -3:00 on May 31, 2024 at Wayne Finger Lakes BOCES for our first Mental Health Roundtable.
The Finger Lakes Rural Mental Health Demonstration Project (MHD), in partnership with Seneca Falls CSD, invites you to join us for a day of professional development focused on gratitude and celebration for the important work you do in our Region!
The day will kick off with an Advocacy Panel of mental health leaders in our region followed by sessions on family engagement, restorative practices, facilitating SEL lessons, projective testing, mindfulness and self-care. The New York Chiropractic College will be giving free adjustments and we will have raffle baskets to benefit a local charity. Lunch will be catered by Club 86 in Geneva.
For questions, please contact Dr. Hennessey Lustica at hlustica@senecafallscsd.org.
DeEscalation Strategies and Simulator
with Peaceful Schools Staff
Training Description:
Participants in this training gain foundational knowledge about the escalation cycle and learn strategies to interrupt the cycle and support student regulation. Our trained actors simulate an array of student personalities displaying common classroom misbehaviors, providing participants the opportunity to practice de-escalation techniques in a real-time simulator.
- Full day in-person session
- Lunch on your own from 11:45-12:30
SEL Through Play
with Peaceful Schools Staff
Training Description:
Interactive, activity-based workshop to learn how to seamlessly incorporate social emotional development into all subject areas. Building your classroom engagement toolbox with activities that can be modified and enhanced to serve all students.
- Half-day in-person workshop
Thought Exchange for the Classroom
with Peaceful Schools Staff
Training Description:
Thought Exchange on Classroom Practices - This session is designed around the Six Effective PBIS Classroom Practices with an emphasis on Engagement and Opportunities to Respond and Active Supervision (Move, Interact and Scan)
Our conversation will allow participants to discuss how they currently apply the strategies and variations they use based on age/grade and setting. This session will use a Restorative Circle structure to examine the Six classroom practices through a trauma informed lens. Additionally, the conversation will allow participants to discuss adult strategies for modulating and resetting their own response strategies, including maintaining neutrality when they experience their own emotional response to a situation beginning to impact the interaction with a student(s). Participants will review and be provided with the 6 classroom practices rubric from Mid-West PBIS for rating their own skill set.
- Half day in-person session
Nurturing Classroom
with Peaceful Schools Staff
Training Description:
Through this session, teachers will be supported in developing strategies to establish and maintain positive relationships and resiliency skills in the classroom. Participants will explore the effects of stress on the brain, neuroplasticity, and the power of resilience-based teaching strategies.
- Half-day Virtual Session
Supporting Students in the LGBTQIA+ Community
with Peaceful Schools Staff
Training Description:
This training was developed to empower educators with an introduction to the needs of youth who identify as LGBTQIA+. Participants will learn to understand basic terminology and definitions with an introduction to the Queer Alphabet LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning), sexual orientation, and gender identity which will help foster inclusive language and create safe spaces.
- Half-day session.
- In-person offered August 7
- Virtual offered July 24
- Links for online session will be emailed.
Addressing Racial and Cultural Equity in The Classroom: A Resonance Approach
with Peaceful Schools Staff
Training Description:
The resonance approach is designed to engage educators in exploring identity and bias through a lens of self-reflection. This training provides an opportunity to explore the intersectionality of identity so that staff are prepared with a heightened awareness of the role they play in creating and maintaining a space of equity with students.
- Full day in-person workshop.
- Lunch on your own from 11:45-12:30
Core Features of MTSS
with Peaceful Schools Staff
Training Description:
Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) applies organizational management principles to promote effective development and implementation of effective processes at all levels (District, School, and Grade Level/Classroom/Course Level). This session will provide an overview of the core features of MTSS.
- Half day in-person session