Edmonton Catholic Schools Mental Health Strategic Plan: School Conversation Guides
How can your school implement a whole-school approach to create a welcoming, caring, respectful and safe learning environment that supports the positive mental health of students? A whole-school approach recognizes that all aspects of the school community impact students’ mental health and well-being, and that learning and mental health are inextricably linked. Through a strength-based approach, schools can move their focus from the prevention of specific problems to a more positive, holistic view of child and youth development.
The Conversation Guides / Videos will allow you and your school staff the opportunity to further a conversation around how to support student mental health through a comprehensive, strengths based approach.
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How can school staff support student leadership?
Key Understandings:
– Educators need to invest in their students and empower them to be participants in a shared collective endeavor, their education. It is important to build community and capacity in a school. Relationships are the essence of a school community.
– It is important for students to experience leadership opportunities during their schooling. It provides an opportunity for
students to learn and identify and display effective communication and interpersonal skills.
– It is important to involve students in the process of deciding what types of leadership opportunities they would like to be involved in at their school.
– Student leadership is when students are no only engaged, but also take ownership of and lead school initiatives. There are varying degrees or levels of student involvement in schools; increased levels of more meaningful engagement results in more effective and sustainable positive outcomes.
– Successful student engagement initiatives require adult champions to assist with creating a vision, identify outcomes and plan for an authentic and meaningful engagement.
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