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SMH provides students, staff, and families with comprehensive support services and resources to promote the awareness, education, and prevention of the choking game.

 

 

Crisis Team Training 

Crisis prevention, intervention and postvention trainings regarding policy, procedures and best practices are available to Local District Offices and school site crisis teams.

 

 

Impact of Trauma on Students 


This workshop is designed to provide a “trauma lens”, to understand that children’s behavior is often a developmental response to their experiences and injuries. Experiences and injuries, whether physical or emotional, can have a profound impact on behavior, academics and relationships.

 

 

Increasing Staff Resilience During Difficult Times


This workshop helps participants gain insight and understanding about how to respond in positive, productive and healthy ways when experiencing difficult situations, Workshop highlights include: identifying adjustment patterns to stressful events; learning a model of “Psychological First Aid”; practicing and modeling positive and healthy behaviors; and implementing self care.

 

 

SMH provides students, staff, families, and the communities of the LAUSD with comprehensive support services and resources to promote the awareness, education, and prevention of the inhalant abuse.

 

 

Psychological First Aid (PFA): Listen, Protect Connect 


Children exposed to violence and trauma can be resilient, and their responses shorter-term with appropriate environmental support. This workshop introduces Psychological First Aid for students after a school crisis, emergency or disaster. The PFA model can help students bounce back more quickly from a critical event; assisting students to return to school, stay in school, continue to learn, and return to their usual school based activities after such an event.

 

 

Self-Injury and Youth


Staff development presentations and trainings are provided to administrators, teachers, school personnel, students and teachers to bring awareness and education on self-injury and to limit contagion.

 

 

Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention


Professional development presentations are available to all LAUSD schools and offices. The intent of these presentations is to increase the knowledge of staff concerning indicators of students-at-risk, and intervention, assessment and documentation procedures; increase student awareness of risk factors or warning signs in themselves and other students; increase parent awareness of the risk factors and warning signs in their children; and increase staff/parent/student awareness of available resources at the school and in the community.

 

 

Supporting Students, Supporting Ourselves: Promoting resilience, Providing PFA 


This workshop makes the connection between supporting students, and the impact that this work can have on us as educators and helping professionals.   It introduces Psychological First Aid: Listen Protect Connect, an evidence-informed model that can help students bounce back more quickly from critical events, assisting them to reengage in the learning process.  This workshop also introduces a professional resilience model.

 

 

Threat Assessment and Management 


Threat assessment and management trainings regarding policy, procedures and best practices are available to Local District Offices and school site threat assessment teams.

 

 

Treating Trauma in Schools: Evidence Based/Trauma-Informed, Culturally Competent Practice for Mental Health Professionals 


This workshop introduces a framework for creating “trauma informed” school systems by building the capacity of school community stakeholders: administrators, teachers, and school mental health professionals to understand the connection between children’s life experiences and their behaviors at school. The trauma-informed school can make specific modifications in the classroom and system wide, promoting school wide positive behavior supports to students who have been exposed to trauma.

 

 

Workplace Violence


This professional development opportunity outlines administrative procedures governing workplace violence, bullying and threats involving employees and associated adults. Guidelines and protocols set forth in LAUSD Policy Bulletin 5610.0 Workplace Violence, Bullying and Threats (Adult-to-Adult) are discussed.