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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-11-28 | 11 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 6:30 PM Leslie Morrison: It does. Acting Chair Jenn Barrett: Great. Thank you so much. Victoria Forester: Thank you all. I appreciate it. Leslie Morrison: And I just have a question. Will we at some point have an opportunity to hear how they're doing? In a year or two, will there be an opportunity to come back? Acting Chair Jenn Barrett: That would be great if you would be happy to come back. Victoria Forrester: Yes. 4-B Jodi McCarthy, Program manager, Student Support Services, AUSD Acting Chair Jenn Barrett: We really appreciate that. And you'll stick around in case we have more questions. Alright. So Jodi McCarthy, thank you so much for joining us. She is the Program Manager of the Student Support Services at Alameda Unified School District. Jodi McCarthy: And I'm talking to you about the needs assessment that Alameda Unified conducted last year. We took a real comprehensive look at the behavioral health needs of our students, because we were seeing a lot more reports of students being 5150 for suicide ideation, students needing more support with 504s around anxiety and depression, and eating disorders, and some mental health, behavioral health things that were going on. So what the district did last year was, took a really comprehensive look at all of the kids in our district from elementary school to middle school up to high school. Oh, and I have it. I've got it. Hang on. Let me see if I can do this. Okay, here we go. So, the purpose and the goal of the needs assessment was to really analyze what we were doing well, and what we were missing. We took a look at it through a deficit model much like Victoria was talking about. We wanted to see where the holes were, and how we can help kind of support and fill those holes. And fill the needs that our kids need because all kids need to learn, and they need to be able to thrive. Jodi McCarthy: The needs assessment is 50 pages long, and I'm not going to do all 50 pages. It contains all of this stuff. It has everything that we did. We did online surveys with all of the students, we did online surveys with the staff, and online surveys with the parents. We did focus groups with fifth graders at a few of the elementary schools. We did focus groups with a girl's group and a boy's group at the two middle schools. We did four focus groups with students at Encinal and Alameda High. We looked at African-American students, we looked at the high-achieving students, students with a 4.2 or above. We looked at a girls group, and then a boys group. So we picked those four different focus groups, and had about a dozen kids in each of the groups that we did at the various schools. We did focus groups with parents through the after school program. We did the most, I think, that we could do. We thought of everything. That we had partners with Girls Inc. Girls Inc. came in and helped us run a bunch of the focus groups. So as many of our community members that we could touch, we tried to get that information from them. 03/13/19 Page 11 of 32 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-11-28.pdf |