Napa Valley Wellness Conference

Outline of session:

-A Brief History of School-Based Wellness Centers
-Overview of the initiation of the Wellness Program in SRCS
-Challenges & Successes of building “a system within a system”
-Cultural & Community reception and perception of mental health
-Hopeful Future Goals for Wellness in Schools

Take-aways will include an overview of:

-How to manage funding challenges
-How to navigate staffing challenges
-How to respond to/manage staff, student & parent ideas about wellness/mental health
-How to build a strong program that will last

This Social Emotional Learning & the Arts Professional Development session explores how to use the arts as a vehicle for social-emotional learning (SEL). Participants will discover the five social-emotional learning competencies while integrating the arts with SEL. Participants will examine art lessons combined with SEL competencies conducive to a variety of instructional times.

Additionally, strategies and activities for arts-based SEL across visual and performing arts will be explored. At the culmination of the session, participants will be able to create or transform their own existing lessons to reflect SEL competencies taught through the arts.

The dynamic collaborative, SHINE Napa Valley, is a group of the five largest mental health nonprofit partners in Napa County. They banded together in 2022 to develop a shared vision of how to best support local school wellness programs. They spearheaded a community mapping tool to find gaps in services, and built an aspirational network of care model to guide their work. Learn more about how to partner with local providers to find common goals and use data to explore ways to improve student wellness at your schools.