Cherryland Elementary School in Hayward, California is entering its fourth year of partnership with Seneca and the UE HEART (Hayward Empowering Advocacy and Radical Transformation) program. HEART supports Cherryland with a counseling enriched classroom (CEC) partnership with the Hayward Unified School District (HUSD). In this partnership, HEART provides 2-3 mental health counselors and a classroom clinician, who work in collaboration with a district teacher. The team works to define individualized goals and strategies to address behaviors that are impacting the student’s ability to succeed in school and engage collaboratively with school staff and caregivers to develop a nurturing, structured setting to promote student success.
Additionally, the HEART program has been working school wide at Cherryland to provide regular training to the staff. Training topics have included trauma informed education, understanding and responding to challenging behaviors, self-care, and most recently, Autism, ADHD, and neurodiversity.
In our regularly conducted surveys, feedback for Seneca’s presence on campus has been overwhelmingly positive. 100% of the school leadership, teachers and school staff (who completed our surveys) strongly agreed professionalism, collaboration, effectiveness, and communication of the HEART program at Cherryland. We love our Cherryland team and look forward to many more years in collaboration!
Additionally, the HEART program has been working school wide at Cherryland to provide regular training to the staff. Training topics have included trauma informed education, understanding and responding to challenging behaviors, self-care, and most recently, Autism, ADHD, and neurodiversity.
In our regularly conducted surveys, feedback for Seneca’s presence on campus has been overwhelmingly positive. 100% of the school leadership, teachers and school staff (who completed our surveys) strongly agreed professionalism, collaboration, effectiveness, and communication of the HEART program at Cherryland. We love our Cherryland team and look forward to many more years in collaboration!
Blog By: Alexandra Rutherford, Assistant Director of School Partnerships
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