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Hi folks,

 

We are in the process of starting an ACEs in Children and Youth group here on ACEs Connection where we would like to feature existing ACEs, trauma, and resilience curriculum implemented in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms, as well as after school programs. This may include peer health education and youth development/youth advocacy programs. Please let us know if you have any recommendations!

 

Many thanks.

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Hi Alicia!

My organization has developed a trauma-informed curriculum for building resilience and social and emotional skills in the classroom - the program is called Transformative Life Skills.  We work mainly in inner-city schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.  The Transformative Life Skills curriculum is evidence-based and founded on the premise that an integrative (mind, body, all levels of the brain) approach is best for overcoming trauma.  Anyways here is a link if you want to add it to your collection of resources. There is an online TLS training available as well.  Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.  Looking forward to seeing what other resources you compile for the group!

 

Best,

Danielle

I tried this link. I get an error. Could you resend or send it to my email? sparrish@swrsd.org.
Thank you
 
Originally Posted by Sue Mackey Andrews:

Hi Alicia, We are sharing several curriculum with schools and others who work with youth.  We distribute the WA curriculum frequently (http://www.k12.wa.us/compassio...rningandTeaching.pdf)

as well as the Burlington VT School curriculum, and many materials on mindfulness for kids of all ages.  Have you heard about the Momentus Institute?

 

Nice to connect!  My best, Sue 

 

Thanks for getting the right link, Jane, for the WA state PreK-12 curriculum. This curriculum is a relatively easy insert into the "regular" school day/existing curriculum and gives teachers at all grades ideas how to reframe their conversations with children, structure the material, etc. Another curriculum is Reaching Teens available at the AAP website - authored and edited by Dr. Ken Ginsburg. While this curriculum is "aimed" at teens, more than half of the content is applicable to any age group and the learning opportunities are highly accessible and meaningful.  The Momentus Institute can be found at  http://www.momentousinstitute.org/  This is an amazing approach with children starting at age three ... focus on the brain, teaching kids the different parts of the brain, emphasizing mindfulness in a variety of ways ... they do an outstanding conference presentation especially for early care and early elementary educators and counselors.  Their accomplishments with children who have experienced trauma, in the child welfare system, etc. is truly magical.

 

The Burlington VT Public School curriculum is a mindfulness curriculum written for public schools.  http://www.mindfulnessink12edu...-public-schools.html

 

There are several others.  I can return to this site over the weekend and give you another 5-6 resources if folks are interested. These materials have been suggested by folks who have actually used them and achieved success with them.  Enjoy!

Originally Posted by Loren Taylor:

Shared this with Jim Sporleder

Alicia, thank you for gathering such valuable resources to share with the group.  I think one of the strongest curriculums that I have become aware of since we have been working with elementary students is Conscious Discipline, Dr. Becky Bailey.  If a person just googles Conscious Discipline, it will take them to the site.  She has developed evidenced based strategies that I think covers so many needs that our teachers are encountering in the classroom.  Through our experience, we have learned that we have to start with the adult, before we can reach the child. Conscious Discipline focuses on how important it is for the adult to understand their own triggers, and how to process their emotions so that they can regulated... and approach the student with positive intent.  Key learning for our team this year....to implement a trauma informed model, the building leadership needs to lead and support the initiative, and secondly, if the adults aren't regulated, we set our struggling children up for failure and we reinforce their negative belief about themselves. Thanks again, Jim

As an author visiting classrooms I have found that teaching young people how to write autobiographical fiction is powerful. I begin with mind mapping emotions and then draw out feelings and situations from the students that spark those emotions. Then I have them write how a fictional character solved the problem. This way they can tell without telling. And they do. 
 
I also have worked with 2nd graders creating polka dot characters in connection with one of my books "Edwina Beena's Polka Dot Day." We begin with having the kids draw faces on cut out polka dots and then have them tell what the facial expression means in a word or two and then tell the polka dot's story. I am developing this program for preschoolers at this time.
 
I have often wondered how I survived my childhood and when I searched for that answer I discovered a polka dot day and began to understand the importance of the right brain for healing an injured mind.
 
Originally Posted by Alicia St. Andrews:

Hi folks,

 

We are in the process of starting an ACEs in Children and Youth group here on ACEs Connection where we would like to feature existing ACEs, trauma, and resilience curriculum implemented in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms, as well as after school programs. This may include peer health education and youth development/youth advocacy programs. Please let us know if you have any recommendations!

 

Many thanks.

 

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