Building Resilience: Supporting Students and Ourselves in Times of Uncertainty

Description

The NYS Migrant Education Program seeks to increase capacity with migrant educators working with adolescents, 5th-12th grade students, and across staff working with in-school adolescents to apply meaningful tools to promote resilience during uncertain times.

The session will invite participants to connect their knowledge of the continuum of stress, adversity and trauma to deepening their understanding student experience during this school year. A brief review of the impact of stress on brains, bodies, and behaviors will be provided. Emphasis will be placed on applying this knowledge in the context of crisis response and recovery. Meaningful frameworks and practical tools will be offered to improve coping and foster resilience development in adolescents while simultaneously promoting resilience in education staff. This session is designed for education staff serving in-school adolescents, offering a strength-based, engaging, and action-oriented approach to the topic.

The content in this presentation is geared towards serving the migrant populations in New York State as defined under Title I, Part C and the approved State Service Delivery Plan, and may NOT be appropriate to all situations.

Objectives/Learning Targets

As a result of this session, participants will:

• enhance their ability to effectively recognize signs of stress and distress in accordance with trauma-informed and crisis response principles,
• build connections between the 7 C’s of Resilience and their educational approach,
• identify meaningful action they can take today to promote resilience, and
• deepen their understanding of self-care and stress management as an essential component of delivering high quality educational experiences.

Presented and Developed by

Amy Scheel-Jones, MS Ed

About the Presenter

Amy Scheel-Jones brings depth and breadth of experience to capacity building and change management strategies. In her work as a School Counselor, Amy spent 10 years developing expertise in practical approaches to prevention, resiliency and fostering well-being. A committed youth and family advocate and systems thinker, Amy has consistently applied these core principles to accelerate practice transformation efforts in educational settings, behavioral health system planning, and cross-sector community impact efforts. The core of her work includes sustainable system transformation grounded in trauma-responsive principles, positive youth development, and resilience enhancement. Specifically, Amy oversees the Consortium on Trauma, Illness & Grief in Schools (TIG), a regional collaboration of comprehensive training and integrated crisis response network serving participating districts for over 18 years. She is an Assistant Editor and contributing author to the 2nd Edition of Reaching Teens: Strength-based, Trauma-Sensitive, Resilience-Building Communication Strategies Rooted in Positive Youth Development (published by the American Academy of Pediatrics), Areas of focus include training and consultation on the impact of childhood adversities (ACEs), trauma-responsive practices, resilience development, behavioral health system transformation, suicide, strategic planning for crisis response, and change management for school-based initiatives. She received her BS in Human Development and Family Studies at Cornell University followed by her MS in Education in Counseling from SUNY Brockport.

Workshop Follow Up

Our presenter, Amy sent us the link to the 2.5-minute video that we did not have time to watch during the presentation.  

• Dr. Dan Sigel’s Hand Model of the Brain

During the workshop, Amy suggested that we might want to look at the video and handout about fostering the 7 C’s of resilience, by Dr. Ginsburg. 

• Visit parentandteen.com, a great resource that folks can get in the habit of using, and watch this video.
• Below is a reflection sheet that you can download and use with the video as well as the PowePoint Notes.