- Developing Sustainable Wellness Programs: Learn how to lead the creation and implementation of sustainable wellness programs by engrafting mental health interns, strengthening community partnerships with local universities, and fostering long-term mental health support structures in schools.
- Leading Efforts to Address Racial Inequities: Understand the role of clinical supervisors in promoting mental health programming that addresses racial inequities and prioritizes culturally responsive care, creating an environment where all students feel supported and valued.

Session topic will cover best practices for teaching and supporting students who have experienced trauma, the impact of trauma on the brain and learning process, and the power of healing student/educator relationships in learner outcomes.

In this session, participants will learn about Effective Classroom Practices to encourage equity and belonging within the classroom community. Participants will gain knowledge on the 18 Effective Classroom Practices and the concepts behind each, connections of the practices to student culture, current research behind the practices, and how to implement the practices within the classroom effectively. These Effective Classroom Practices will specifically facilitate equity, belonging and a stronger classroom community for historically marginalized groups.

Our session will highlight and discuss how both a mental health clinician and district social worker have been able to partner with school sites to increase school attendance and navigate school refusal/truancy. Anticipated take-away will be an understanding of the intersection between mental health and it's impact on school attendance and concrete strategies for partnering with families, students and school sites.

In this workshop, participants will engage in a social emotional arts and theatre-based approach to explore stress and its effect on the body, identify their own stressors, experience different ways to become aware of their stressors, and practice tools and exercises for regulating the nervous system.

• Utilizes theatre and social emotional arts and learning to give adults experiential learning and opportunities to practice regulating themselves and co-regulating others.
• Promotes destigmatizing and understanding stress through theatrical, experiential, and social emotional learning.
• Engages participants in regulation activities and practice teaching these activities to co-regulate young people or adults. All regulatory practices are grounded in science.
• Explores our individual brains and bodies and how they react to stress to become aware of when self-regulation is needed.

This workshop utilizes group drumming for regulation and to build core strengths such as focusing and listening, team building, leadership, expressing feelings, managing anger/stress, empathy, and gratitude. These practices come from the evidence-based Beat the Odds® program.