Friday, April 26, 2024
4/26/2024
Project Summary: Solano County Office of Education will advance healing and improve social determinants of health among youth and families in communities that have experienced civil unrest, community violence, disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and other significant collective trauma over the past 24 months. SCOE will engage the community to plan and deploy culturally concordant, trauma informed prevention, intervention, and post-vention strategies that build school and community capacity, expand service access, and promote healing and healthy development. Population Served: Students of Solano County public schools and their families, with a particular focus on those disproportionately impacted by the collective traumas of the past two years including Black, Latino/a, LGBTQ students and families, all of whom are more likely to experience mental health symptoms and crises. Prevention activities will be targeted to the whole community. Strategies and Interventions: Intervention strategies are designed to address the impacts on students of 1) acute and chronic community gun violence; 2) social and civil unrest in response to police violence; 3) disproportionate impacts of COVID-19; and 4)increases in self-harm, injury, and death by suicide. SCOE will serve a total of 4,200 unduplicated individuals over the duration of the project. The goals of the project are: Goal 1: Decrease incidents of community violence and the impact of collective trauma by cultivating 15 collaborative partnerships amongst community providers to assess, plan, and implement evidence-based and community driven strategies. Goal 2: Increase the knowledge and capacity of schools and other youth-serving entities to employ trauma, grief and attachment informed approaches to at least 800 youth and families impacted by collective trauma, and training at least 75% of staff on Grief, Trauma and Attachment Informed Therapeutic Techniques in an effort to reduce conflicts that rise to the level of community violence by employing restorative practices as a preventive measure. Goal 3: Increase the knowledge and development of mental health interns at both the graduate and paraprofessional level in trauma, grief counseling, and case management strategies to inform competent and culturally relevant services to those impacted by community violence and collective trauma, and to serve annually at least 40 students individually and 500 students through Wellness Centers. Goal 4: Increase the knowledge and capacity of schools and youth-serving entities to develop and implement established protocols to guide post-vention responses after traumatic events that ultimately support the healing of those most impacted, and provide immediate debrief, with the aim that 80% of participants in technical assistance training will report an increase in knowledge.
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