Potential Virtual Workshops for parents and caregivers facilitated by Effective School Solutions

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Effective School Solutions (ESS) is a partner of the Chariho Regional School District that provides student mental health supports. As our partner, they will provide optional quarterly (4) virtual workshops to support parents and caregivers that want to be informed about student mental health needs across the '23-'24 School year. Interested parents and caregivers: Please complete the short form below so we can ensure that ESS prioritizes the virtual workshop topics with the most community interest.

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Ashaway Elementary School

Charlestown Elementary School

Hope Valley Elementary School

Richmond Elementary School

Chariho Alternative Learning Academy

Chariho Regional Middle School

Chariho High School

CHARIHOtech

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Please select your top 4 choices for optional virtual workshop topics in areas about which you would be interested in learning more? *

Introduction to the Trauma-Attuned Model®: ESS’s Trauma-Attuned Model® is a relationship-based, evidence-centered approach to supporting student development, fostering student and caregiver resiliency, and ultimately promoting healthy growth and academic achievement. In this introduction to TAM® workshop, parents and caregivers are introduced to the four key components of the model: Prevalence, Affect, Response, and Triggers (or P.A.R.T. for short). A more comprehensive 6-hour version of the full Trauma-Attuned Model® is also available.

Nurtured Heart Approach®: Transforming Your Child: The Nurtured Heart Approach® is a relationship-focused methodology founded strategically in the 3 Stands™, which helps children and adults build their Inner Wealth™ and use their intensity in successful ways. It has become a powerful way of awakening the inherent greatness in all children while also facilitating parenting success.

Caring for the Caregiver: Caring for a loved one can create stress in even the most resilient people. This workshop assists caregivers in identifying signs and symptoms of caregiver stress, as well as teaching steps that caregivers can take in order to preserve their own health and well-being.

The Language of Behaviors: Understanding Challenging Behaviors: How do we evaluate what a child’s behavior is trying to communicate? Behavior is a form of communication which is especially important children have limited means of expressing themselves or have neither the developmental level nor psychological capacities to “tell us” how they are doing and how we are doing with them. This workshop develops the ability to appreciate and understand the relevance and messaging of children’s behavior.

Having Hope: Suicide Prevention for Parents: The good news is that we can help prevent suicide: parents and caregivers are in a prime position to learn how to recognize the signs of suicide risk and to access help. This workshop helps parents and caregivers build the skills and confidence necessary to identify vulnerable youth and assist in seeking help.

Destigmatizing Mental Health: This workshop helps parents and caregivers have a better understanding of what mental wellness means in a child: the signs and symptoms that can make a child appear “fragile”, or aggressive or withdrawn, as well as specific techniques for helping that child be more successful.

Depression in Children and Adolescents: The goal of this workshop is to help caregivers support and work more effectively with a child suffering from depression. Participants receive an overview of child and adolescent depression, learn how depression can impact school performance, and develop an understanding of treatment options.

Supporting Students with Stress and Excessive Worry for Parents and Caregivers: This presentation focuses on ways parents and caregivers can support children with stress and excessive worry during the re-acclimation process. Participants will leave this presentation with strategies that they can utilize at home to help promote positive mental health and emotional growth.

Addressing Stress and Its Impact on Learning for Parents and Caregivers: This presentation will discuss the impact that stress has on student learning. New concepts that have emerged as a result of COVID, such as virtual learning anxiety and its effects on executive functioning, are explored. Parents and Caregivers are introduced to strategies that they can employ to provide children with the structure and support needed to reduce stress, enhance access to executive functioning skills, and improve academic achievement. Participants will leave with an understanding of how mental health impacts learning, as well as steps they can take to improve their child’s school performance.

Beyond Autism - A Look at Dual Diagnosis: Eighty-three percent of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder carry one or more additional developmental, psychiatric, or neurologic diagnoses. These students struggle the most and are least receptive to traditional Autism interventions. This workshop shows participants how to utilize a person-centered approach to focus on the behavioral and emotional aspects of comorbid psychiatric disorders (Dual Diagnosis) that often occur in students with Autism. In this workshop, participants will learn common co-occurring disorders with ASD (including both medical and psychiatric diagnoses), the importance of early detection and intervention of psychiatric disorders in students with Autism, and how to view behavioral challenges through a person-centered lens.

School Avoidance for Parents and Families: In this workshop, parents and families will learn about the signs and factors relating to school avoidance. Particular attention is paid to principles relating to treatment and responding to school avoidant children.

Sensory Processing Disorders: Navigating an Overwhelming World: Sensory Processing Disorder describes a difference in the way that sensory input is processed by the brain. This workshop provides an in-depth understanding of the condition, including the symptoms and behaviors associated with it, diagnosis, prevalence, history, therapies, and interventions, and how a parent can provide support.

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