Mark Thibedeau, Clinical Supervisor
The upcoming end of the school year will also mark the end of the first year of All-In’s partnership with Caliber Beta Academy, a charter school in Richmond that serves kindergarten students through 8th grade. Like most of the schools All-In partners with, Caliber recognized a need to serve students’ social-emotional needs at a higher level and required support. Support came in the form of two clinicians, Alys Larsen and Jennifer Harry, who have done an outstanding job of assessing the school’s current needs, integrating into the Caliber community by building relationships with staff, students and families and serving clients who were not able to receive service the previous year. Both Alys and Jennifer bring a trauma-informed lens to their work and through each collaboration with Caliber staff, they help the Caliber community enhance its understanding of student needs in relation to trauma and effective ways to address them. While the tier 3 interventions represent the majority of their work, Alys and Jennifer envision expanding their reach by providing more trauma-informed trainings to the entire Caliber staff during the upcoming school year. It will be exciting to see how the second year of our partnership unfolds based on foundation Jennifer and Alys have built. Blog post written by:
Mark Thibedeau, Clinical Supervisor
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The impact of immigration raids and fear of raids affects the behavioral health of individuals protected by the public mental health system (Juby & Kaplan, 2011). This community project gathered and presents the views of clinicians working with these youth and their families on how to safely and bravely communicate about the mental health risks and effects of immigration raids. It provides a primer on the ways that clinicians and other mental health providers can talk to and educate clients, families, and school communities about immigration raids. The issue for this project was how to talk about the difficult subject of immigration raids with youth clients and their support network of families and school community. A group of clinicians were tasked with using their experience to create a working list of how to engage in meaningful conversations about this topic. A group of seven clinicians were first provided with literature about the deleterious effect of immigration raids on immigrants and their communities in the United States. The clinicians then worked in smaller focus groups to develop talking points for mental health workers to use in talking to immigrants about raids. The larger group reconvened and shared their results. The following list reflects the work of the clinicians. How to Talk About the Risk and Impact of Immigration Raids References Capps, R., Castaneda, R., Chaudhry, A., & Santos, R., (2007). Paying the price: The impact of immigration raids on America’s children. Urban Institute. Juby, C. & Kaplan, L. (2011). Postville: The effects of an immigration raid. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 92(2), p. 147-153. Blog post written by:
Laurie Kindel, Clinical Intern This past weekend, I took a trip down memory lane and visited an old neighbor whom I remember with tender nostalgia – Mr. Rogers. Many of you shared your childhood with Mr. Rogers and his puppet gang. He taught us about friendship, feelings, and community. In 1969, Mr. Rogers testified before the Senate on the importance of securing federal funding for the newly formed Corporation for Public Broadcasting. President Richard Nixon wanted the federal funds set aside for public broadcasting by former President Lyndon Johnson cut in half. Mr. Rogers spoke with such eloquence about his television program and the role of mental health in supporting child development that he singlehandedly swayed the hearing’s chairman, Senator John Pastore, to commit the full $20 million dollars to PBS. I can’t help but think of the parallels with our current political climate and the social services that are at risk of losing federal funding. I wonder if Congress would be moved by such testimony today. Blog post written by: Robyn Ganeles, Assistant Director of Clinical Intervention Services |
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