School Personnel Support
We deliver services to all school personnel, including administrators, school aides, and teachers. A series of psycho-educational workshops, grade-specific meetings, 1:1 consultations (as needed), and monthly wellness activities are included. These services strengthen mental health literacy and promote adult self-care, allowing staff to be better equipped to foster social-emotional development and academic success in our youth.
Trainings include:
- Common school-aged mental health disorders, symptoms in the classrooms/cafeteria, and available services;
- Trauma-informed classroom strategies to manage behaviors and reduce stress in students;
- De-escalation strategies to help teachers increase their efficacy in addressing mental health needs within their classroom;
- Bullying awareness and how to prevent it;
- Healthy lifestyle practices aimed to boost performance and well-being;
- Referral policies and procedures to improve familiarity and confidence in referring students displaying mental health symptoms;
- De-stigmatizing mental health-related issues.
Student Support Teams
Typically, schools have a multi-disciplinary team that meets regularly to discuss the needs of students who are experiencing academic, behavioral, and social-emotional challenges. Turn 2 Us assists student support teams by:
- Screening for mental health symptoms and providing referrals/linkages as needed;
- Providing tools to streamline or support policies and procedures related to identifying, referring, and following up with students with mental health needs;
- Increasing linkages between school mental health agencies and families to ensure that identified mental health needs are being met;
- Providing strategies to increase caregivers' and school personnel's help-seeking behavior on behalf of students and family members.
All services NOTE: In response to COVID-19, Turn 2 Us modified services and provided virtual services to our school sites and expanded programming to other school sites, community partners, and beyond. Moving forward, Turn 2 Us will continue with a hybrid model (in-person and virtual services) to continue the program's mission by promoting mental health for caregivers, educators, and students on a larger scale.