Revised November 2015

Tuolumne County

Inter-Agency Support for Schools

ATCAA PREVENTION PROGRAMS

Contact Bob White

Friday Night Live

The Friday Night Live (FNL) program is designed for high school-aged people. It is motivated by youth-adult partnerships that create essential and powerful opportunities that enhance and improve local communities. Community service, social action activities, participation in advocacy for safe and healthy environments, and promotion of healthy policies are organized by youth to appeal to youth.

Club Live

Club Live (CL) is an extension of the successful Friday Night Live program and is aimed at middle school age students. CL fosters resiliency and protective factors through the development of action-oriented chapters.

Mentoring Works

Mentoring Works is a community based one-on-one mentoring program. Volunteer mentors are matched with children from their community and are given the freedom to get together on their own time to develop a friendship with their protégés.

The Council

The Council is a strengths-based group approach to promote boys’ and young men’s safe and healthy passage through pre-teen and adolescent years. The Council meets a core developmental need in boys for strong, positive relationships. In this structured environment, boys and young men gain the vital opportunity to address masculine definitions and behaviors and build their capacities to find their innate value and create good lives – individually and collectively.

Girls Circle

The Girls Circle model, a structured support group for girls from 9-18 years, integrates relational theory, resiliency practices, and skills training in a specific format designed to increase positive connection, personal and collective strengths, and competence in girls. It aims to counteract social and interpersonal forces that impede girls’ growth and development by promoting an emotionally safe setting and structure within which girls can develop caring relationships and use authentic voices.

Mental Health First Aid

Mental Health First Aid is an 8-hour course that teaches how to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. The training helps identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders.

Youth Mental Health First Aid

Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human service workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. Youth Mental Health First Aid is primarily designed for adults who regularly interact with young people. 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.

esuicide TALK

esuicide TALK uses a virtual classroom environment to explore questions around suicide, its causes, and how it can be prevented through open and honest discussion. Participants log in via a voucher system and complete the course at their own pace, typically in one to two hours.

safeTALK

safeTALK is a half-day alertness training that prepares anyone over the age of 15, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide-alert helper. Most people with thoughts of suicide don’t truly want to die, but are struggling with the pain in their lives. Through their words and actions, they invite help to stay alive. safeTALK-trained helpers can recognize these invitations and take action by connecting them with life-saving intervention resources.

ASIST

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is for everyone 16 and older—regardless of prior experience—who wants to be able to provide suicide first aid. The ASIST model teaches effective intervention skills while helping to build suicide prevention networks in the community.

For information regarding any of the ATCAA Prevention Programs please contact Bob White, Prevention Programs/YES Partnership Director at (209) 533-1397 x226 or .

Tuolumne County Behavioral Health

Contact Kristine Conforti

For all schools:

  • Behavioral Health Presentations
  • Information on available programs, services and resources
  • Provide brochures, information on various issues

For High Schools only:

  • Directing Change Program
  • Filmmaking opportunity for students to reduce stigma

For Elementary Schools only:

  • Walk in Our Shoes presentation –
  • Funding for only TWO schools this school year. Previously funded Sonora El & Jamestown.
  • targeted towards 9 to 13 year olds
  • Mental Health stigma, discrimination, bullying
  • Emphasizes normalcy of mental health problems and that it’s OK to talk about them.

Infant/Child Enrichment Services

Contact Willow Thorpe

Raising Healthy Families: Raising Healthy Families (RHF) is a program that recognizes that parenting is a job many people struggle with on many levels.

Home visiting parenting support

  • Referrals for in-home parenting support starts with a referral from a parent or by agencies working with the family (i.e. TCBH, CWS, Schools, CNVC and other agencies).
  • Weekly in-home visitation with a Family Support Specialist commences after an intake is done, usually within a week of receiving a referral.
  • Visits are individualized and paced to accommodate the family’s needs while working on parenting goals and healing from adverse experiences the family has been faced with.
  • Protective factors that make a family strong are emphasized.
  • Referrals are made to other service providers in the community per family needs.
  • Advocacy support (i.e. Family Support Specialists join parents at school meetings such as IEPs, SSTs).
  • Parenting services are free and voluntary.

Parenting Classes

  • All parenting classes are free and voluntary
  • Evening classes –
  • Class topics rotate throughout the year – topics include Parenting without Guilt, Calling all Dads, Roller Coaster Years, Parenting your Spirited Child, Nurturing Parenting, Childhood Trauma. All age groups are targeted (0 through 18 years old)
  • Child care is provided on site and a light meal is served
  • Ongoing general parenting classes (Drop in class)
  • Every Wednesday, 11:30- 12:30 @ ATCAA Family Learning Center
  • Specialty classes - Parenting through Recovery (Dependency Drug Court), CAL SAFE (pregnant and parenting teens)

Parent Leadership Opportunities

  • Yearly three day training for parents wishing to take parenting a step further; Focus is on ways of making their families stronger and opportunities in community advocacy.
  • Quarterly parenting meetings (i.e. Discussion of parenting topics /speaker meetings) for graduates and other parents wishing to become parent leaders.

Workshop/Support Groups

  • Raising Healthy Families can design specific workshop/support groups for targeted parent audiences upon request.

A family can receive services by:

  • Calling ICES/Raising Healthy Families @ 209 533-0377
  • Sending a referral to ICES/Raising Healthy Families - referrals can be made by the parent or other service providers working with the family.
  • Contact with the family is made within the week of the referral.
    All parents involved with Raising Healthy Families are given guidance and encouragement using evidence based practices. They work toward reducing toxic stress in their lives and finding ways to nurture the relationships with their children with a focus on connection and love.

ICES - RAISING HEALTHY FAMILIES REFERRAL FORM

Fax Number: 533-4017 Phone Number: 533-0377

Date:______Name of referring person: ______

Type of referral: Name of referring agency: ______

____ Self-referred Phone Number: ______

____ Community Response Email address: ______

____ Court Ordered (DDC/CWS)

____ Other

FAMILY INFORMATION:

Name of Parent(s):______Phone number:______

Physical Address:______

Name of child Birth date Ethnicity Disabilities

1. ______

2. ______

3.______

4.______

5.______

6.______

SERVICES YOU WOULD LIKE FAMILY TO RECEIVE:

_____Parenting classes _____In-home parenting education/support ______Differential Response

STATEMENT OF FAMILY NEEDS:

(Please describe any concerns you have and what areas of parenting you would like us to focus on)

______

______

______

Center for a Non-Violent Community (CNVC)

Contact Laura Sunday

Bullying Curriculum 2015-2016 – A 3-day workshop for K-8.

Creating a Positive Respectful Environment

  1. Gathering Information from current climate as viewed by students and/or adults
  1. Friendship-
  1. What does it look like for you?
  2. Student perspectives of their friendships
  1. Boundaries-
  1. What do they look like in your environment?
  2. How do you view your friend’s boundaries?
  3. What do they look like in a group setting?
  1. How do you view your school climate/setting?
  1. Safety
  2. Unsafe zones
  3. General energy/feeling at school
  1. Unity or Segregated
  1. What would your dream be for the happiest setting or environment at your school?
  1. Gathering info. in a group discussion to allow students to see there is a common need to feel safe and happy.
  1. Are you in a healthy friendship
  1. Use health friendship quiz and score it
  2. Use scenarios or role playing
  3. Discuss healthy boundaries in friendships.
  1. Creating a Safe Climate
  1. Ideas for Safety or Creating Safety
  1. How to do it
  2. Who can help
  3. How to work together
  4. Possibly creating a safety team (Justice League) at school
  1. Reinforcing positive behaviors not punitive
  2. Giving praise or tickets with points
  1. Who has the power (Superpowers theme)

Using questions like…

  1. If you were a superhero that could make a positive change in your school what would your name be?
  2. What kind of positive superpower would you have to help bring safety and happiness to the environment?
  1. Encouraging student that they have the power
  2. Encouraging school spirit and unity
  3. Creating a common mission for change in a positive direction.
  4. Students can come up with a mission statement/ positive quote for self or as a whole.
  1. Adult Allies
  1. Work with staff with the same curriculum.
  2. Bring them back to the “kid level” of thinking
  3. Encourage each staff to look within themselves
  4. Remind them they are the role models
  1. What they do each day will help create the environment
  2. Setting boundaries as adults working with students
  1. Unite the adults as allies for themselves and students
  2. Introduce new ideas for social environments within the class
  1. Responsive Approach Learning
  2. Reflective Practices
  3. Relationship Based Learning
  4. Meeting Individual Needs/ Whole Child
  5. Guides to Speech and Actions
  6. Non Violent Communication Skills

Tuolumne Me-Wuk Indian Health Center

Deborah Bryant RN, NP, Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Contact

  • Assist schools in creating a crisis response plan including training the staff and faculty.
  • Provide one on one therapy on site to students who receive Medi-Cal services. She currently sees students at Jamestown, Curtis Creek, Summerville Elementary and Sonora High School.
  • Support school sites in providing Positive Behavior Interventions and Support and Restorative Practices as an positive alternative to suspensions and expulsions. These practices are also viewed as a positive alternative to Zero Tolerance to behavior issues in schools.

Deborah Bryant RN, NP, LCSW

Tuolumne Me-Wuk Cedar Road Health Center

22044 Cedar Rd. Sonora, CA 95370

Work Cell (209) 768-6812

Clinic Phone: (209) 532-0028

Fax: (209) 532-0031