AWARE Activities

• Positive Action for Middle School (introduced 2020-2021 school year):

• Evidence-based program for the Middle School youth that aligns with existing academic standards and flexibility of customization to academic material.

• Promotes the development of habits for healthy mind and body, personal management and self-control skills, building beneficial relationships, understanding responsibility and self-awareness, and goal-setting and achieving.

• Short-term Outcomes- Increase in social emotional mental health, decreasing in problem and unhealthy behaviors, improved decision making for healthy food choices, and increases in academic achievement.

• Long-term Outcomes- Decrease in substance abuse, increases in healthy functioning (independent and family), and decreases in absenteeism.

Too Good for Drugs/Too Good for Violence

• Grades 6-8 2017 school year to current

• Grades 1-5 2020 school year

• Grade K to begin 2021 school year

• Too Good is a comprehensive family of evidence-based substance use and violence prevention interventions designed to mitigate the risk factor linked to problem behaviors and build protection within the child to resist problem behaviors.

• Too Good develops a framework of social and emotional skills through the development of goal-setting, decision-making, emotion management, and effective communication skills in addition to peer-pressure refusal , pro-social bonding, and conflict resolution skills.

• Too Good builds the basis for a safe, supportive, and respectful learning environment.

Digital Citizenship & Social Media Course

• Implemented 2020-2021 school year, grades 9-12

• Developed by Stephanie Capone, Social Media Mental Health Specialist & Prevention Educator

• This course is implemented with grade 9-12 during their PE hour, the course counts for graduation credit.

• This course consist of a pre/posttest to gather data and demonstrate efficacy.

• The school district is working towards having this program credited as an evidence-based course.

• The course consists of seven units- these units include: Cognitive Dissonance & Social Media, The Health Effects of Screen Time, Debating the Privacy Line, Digital Footprint, Are We Civil Communicators?, The Consequences of Online Hate Speech, Filter Bubble Trouble, and Social Media: Did You Know?

PAX Good Behavior Board Game (PAX GBG)

• Rollout in 2021-2022 school year

• PAX GBG is an evidence-based practice that strengthens inhibition, extends self-regulation, and improves social emotional scaffolding.

• PAX GBG creates changes in everyday behavior with corresponding changes in neurochemical, neural connectivity, and epigenetic expression.

• Students show strengthened inhibition, better regulation, social emotional improvements, and increased resilience.

• Long-term outcomes: Increases education/employment outcomes, reduced need for public assistance, less legal involvement, improved mental health, and decreased substance abuse.

Mental Health Trainings

Completed to date

• Youth Mental Health First Aid

• Systems of Care Training

• Educator Resiliency

• Mental Health 101

• Suicide in Schools

Upcoming Mental Health Trainings

Summer 2021

• Therapeutic Crisis Intervention

• Second round of Youth Mental Health First Aid