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| TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS Get Psyched Teachers | Get Psyched Teens Cultivating Kindness We know what happens to some kids when they are persistently ridiculed. Ask their parents or, better yet, ask the kids themselves, but this time, listen and trust what they say. Operation Respect, founded by Peter Yarrow of the folk group Peter, Paul & Mary, works to transform places where kids are into more compassionate, safe and respectful environments. “Don't Laugh at Me” is a free, curriculum for grades 2-5, 6-8 and for summer and after-school activities. The curriculum fits with the country's call for more interactive, energized instruction in the classrooms by using video, music, role playing, and games to teach the value of caring and the pain of cruelty. It's a gateway to broad scale adoption of school-based character education as well as social and emotional learning. You can download it at the web site: www.dontlaugh.org Focus on children & teen mental health. Last June, the National Institute of Mental Health published the results of its National Comorbidity Survey Replication. According to the Survey, mental illnesses are the chronic illnesses of youth. Half of all lifetime cases of mental illnesses begin by age 14. Three-fourths of all lifetime cases start by age 24. Despite the availability of effective treatments, there are long delays—sometimes decades—between first onset of symptoms and when individuals seek and receive treatment. The consequences of untreated illnesses can be physical health problems, unemployment, homelessness, incarceration, separation from families and friends, premature death, and suicide. These consequences are too heavy a toll for our children and our society to pay. Each of us bears some responsibility—some accountability—for resolving this national mental health crisis…and for protecting and promoting the health of this and future generations. Remarks by Crystal R. Blyler, Ph.D., Science Analyst, Center for Mental Health Services Sanc·tu·ar·y: place giving refuge, protection from being hunted, molested. Sandra Bloom, MD, created The Sanctuary Model ®,a trauma-theory, full system approach which can help solve the hurts and pains of 21st century society. Don't you think it's time to share a vision of a saner, more compassionate society? Shared Vision: Creating sanctuary Restoring hope for injured youth This year's mental health conference will exclusively present The Sanctuary Model ® created by Dr. Sandra Bloom. This model is a trauma-informed method for creating or changing a culture. Although it's based on trauma theory, its tenets have application in working with children across a wide diagnostic spectrum and can be applied by people from every level of an organization - administrators, community leaders and frontline workers. The Sanctuary Model is a fundamental framework which, if implemented throughout an entire organization, guides individuals, communities and nations toward a more functional and compassionate culture using seven dominant characteristics. In environments where kids interact Originally developed in a short-term, acute inpatient psychiatric setting for adults who were traumatized as children, the Sanctuary Model has since been adapted by residential treatment settings for children, public schools, domestic violence shelters, group homes, outpatient settings, substance abuse programs, parenting support programs, and has been used in other settings as a method of organizational change. This Model is not an intervention but a full system approach focused on helping injured children recover from the damaging effects of interpersonal trauma. Effective implementation requires extensive leadership involvement in the process of change as well as staff and client involvement at every level of the process. Seven characteristics of cultural change
About Dr. Bloom Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies is Dr. Bloom's first book about developing inpatient programs for traumatized adults. Her second book, Bearing Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility , reflects a passion for prevention and the development of broader social policy initiatives to prevent violence. Creating Sanctuary is the first well-defined model for milieu treatment integrating trauma theory with therapeutic community principles and the practice of nonviolence. It is now being used in many settings—residential treatment programs for traumatized children and adolescents, schools (Sanctuary in the Schools®) and as an alternative to incarceration for women and their children. Dr. Bloom is a Past- President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Past-President of Philadelphia Physicians for Social Responsibility and served as chairperson for the Task Force on Family Violence for the Attorney General of Pennsylvania . GET PSYCHED!
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Available: The full educational packet includes a poster, a 20-minute audio CD, 90 page Teacher’s Companion Guide, and 52 pages Student Workbook, evaluation and extensive resource guide. Under the Image is available free of charge to teachers working with youth (ages 14 to 18) in Warren and Washington counties. Funding was provided through a grant from the Glens Falls Rotary Foundation. ON
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