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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-11-28 | 12 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 6:30 PM Jodi McCarthy: And then additionally, we also took a data from the Healthy Kids, the California Healthy Kids Survey, that's given to students at the end of school year. So, the report has all of these different categories. There's an executive summary, and we looked at seven findings. We looked at the tiers of support that we have at our schools, how we coordinate our practices, what the school's responsibility is, the district capacity, cultural responsiveness of the district. We looked at our school-based health center. There's a school-based health center at each high school site, one in Alameda High, one in Encinal, and one that serves like ECLC and that community, and ASTI and Island. Jodi McCarthy: We had a couple of things that fell into another category, and you'll see what those are. I'll tell you those in a minute. Then we looked at the next steps. We came up with a list. There were 21 no-cost recommendations, things that we could implement right away that didn't have any cost. It's in the full report. In the report there's also a budget that we would need in order to really adequately address all of the things that we found. And then there's a list of references. Jodi McCarthy: So what I'm going to do is give you just key findings of the seven different categories that we looked at. And I'm just going to highlight a couple of them out of each category because some of it is like school talk it, and it's not very exciting. So one of the things I think that is important that was a key finding out of the three tiers of support, the tier one is all everybody. The tier two system of support is groups of students, and the tier three support is individualized support. Jodi McCarthy: So we looked at all of the tiers. We looked at what are we doing for everybody, what are we doing for groups of kids, and what are we doing for individual kids. And what came out of the findings of that section of it was that we need more help, we need more staff, more specialized staff to deal with things that are going on with our kids' needs. There's a critical need to increase partnerships with mental health providers in our community. And we need to integrate them better. We need to be able to communicate with those different partners better. There was a large group of parents that didn't agree about the consequences that were given to kids, whether it be suspensions or referrals, that it wasn't fairly enforced across the school. So there was like an equity piece that came out of that that we're looking at. Jodi McCarthy: Parents, students and staff all believe that there's a lot of work that needs to be done in fostering a sense of community and A sense of belonging-ness at all of our schools we're working really hard on that, right now, through restorative practices and the last couple of bullet points is that the students really reported a lot of problems dealing with stress and anxiety, feelings of sadness and hopelessness and suicidal thoughts which we knew because there's been an increase of risk assessments done with our kids from the counselors and the school psychologists. Jodi McCarthy: Drug use, and abuse is also a big problem on our campuses not just our high school campuses. Vaping is ridiculous right now. Key findings that came out of the coordinated practices surveys were that the systems of behavioral health support vary site-by-site, a lot of that has to do with funding and the populations of those groups. Some of our West End schools have a higher Medi-Cal and free reduced lunch population, and there's a lot more services that you can bring into schools like that, because some providers can only bill for Medi-Cal students. Some of 03/13/19 Page 12 of 32 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-11-28.pdf |