For teachers, administrators, nurses, social workers, and wellness staff interested in providing more comprehensive health education programming in our schools.
The Health Education Framework provides guidance and resources to help educators shift to more advanced student-centered, skill-based teaching and learning practices. It covers the six health content areas and eight health literacy standards. For more information, visit this link
Health Education Framework Professional Learning Opportunities
A series of online professional learning modules is available on the CA Health Education website. Each session will highlight the intersections between the content areas and social and emotional learning.
Module 1 Provides an overview of the overarching framework guidance and implementation resources to support educators. Module 2 Focuses on the content areas of Nutrition & Physical Activity and Mental, Emotional, & Social Health. Module 3 Focuses on the content areas of Growth, Development, & Sexual Health and Injury Prevention & Safety. Module 4 Focuses on the content areas of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Other Drugs and Personal & Community Health.
Youth Mental Health
Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) Virtual Training
The YMHFA course teaches adults who regularly interact with young people how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health challenge or is in crisis. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Completion of 2 hours of online pre-work prior to the class is required. The six-hour course is free, and participants earn a certificate upon completion of the pre-work, instructor-led training, and post-ILT survey. Contact Debbie Jelincic, debbiej@acoe.org, to schedule a training for your district.
Suicide Prevention & Awareness
LivingWorks Start is a free, 90-minute, online training program for students (13 years and older) and staff who would like to learn life-saving skills and how to recognize signs and symptoms of someone who may be struggling with anxiety, depression, isolation, and even thoughts of suicide. Learn how to support friends, classmates, and family and help keep them safe. To access the training, visit this link and use the code “Alameda” or text “start” to (888) 707-0780.
Fentanyl
Fentanyl Overdoses Can Affect Anyone
For the first time in United States History, there were over 100,000 overdose deaths in a 12-month period. Fentanyl is increasingly responsible for the growing number of accidental overdoses. Currently, over 60% of drug overdoses involve fentanyl. To learn more about fentanyl and resources to combat accidental overdoses, such as Naloxone, please check out our partners, linked below:
In addition to the concerning trends related to fentanyl, brightly-colored fentanyl (referred to as rainbow fentanyl) has been identified as a new trend, according to the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Rainbow fentanyl can be found in many forms, including pills, powder, and blocks that can resemble sidewalk chalk or candy.
Models & Frameworks for Student Health & Wellness
The WSCC Model
The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child, or WSCC model, is CDC’s framework for addressing health in schools. The WSCC model is student-centered and emphasizes the role of the community in supporting the school, the connections between health and academic achievement and the importance of evidence-based school policies and practices.
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is a trusted source for knowledge about high-quality, evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL). CASEL supports educators and policy leaders and enhances the experiences and outcomes for all PreK-12 students. For SEL to be most effective, it is essential that states, regions, districts, and schools infuse the principles of SEL across curriculum and instruction, discipline, out-of-school time, and ongoing assessment for continuous improvement. Here is CASEL’s Theory of Action for Effective Implementation of SEL.
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