SAFE & RESILIENT SCHOOLS: MENTAL HEALTH (K-12)

Empowering Educators: Nurturing Mental Health in Youth

Mental health issues among young individuals are widespread, making it vital for K-12 educators to play a pivotal role in fostering understanding, reducing stigma, and offering crucial support. This self-paced interactive course is designed to equip educators with the necessary tools to identify and assist students facing mental health challenges through video vignettes, reflective exercises, and engaging discussions.

Course Highlights:

1. Self-Reflection and Awareness:
– Explore your automatic responses to student behaviors.
– Enhance awareness of mental health stigma and its impact.

2. Understanding Common Mental Health Challenges:
– Gain insights into different types of mental health challenges prevalent among youth.
– Explore externalizing, internalizing, attention-based issues, as well as trauma-related concerns.

3. Trauma-Sensitive Practices:
– Acquire trauma-sensitive strategies that create safe environments for all students.

Objectives:

Upon completing this course, you will possess the knowledge and skills to:
– Evaluate personal reactions to classroom behaviors, fostering a more supportive learning environment.
– Identify instances of mental health stigma and utilize language and actions that minimize such stigmatization.
– Categorize various mental health challenges prevalent in youth based on different patterns of behavior.
– Recognize behavioral indicators that may suggest the presence of an underlying mental health challenge.
– Understand the prevalence and impact of stress, adversity, child trauma, and child traumatic stress amongst students.
– Identify key individuals who can provide effective support systems for students facing mental health difficulties.

Target Audience:

This course is tailor-made for K-12 educators seeking to strengthen their connections with students by expanding their knowledge about common mental health challenges and implementing trauma-sensitive practices. Join us on this transformative journey offered by the University of Colorado Boulder today!

Course provider: University of Colorado Boulder

The link to the course is here.