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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-11-28 | 14 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 6:30 PM that we're working on with our human resource department is that because it was across the board, the students, staff, and families, all of them felt that there was a need for a more diverse staff. So we need to see more people that look like our students, teaching and in admin roles across our district. Access to the school-based health center at our high school sites. This was fun to talk about with our high school kids. The kids believe that the Health Center really is maximized. There's a lot of services that the health center offers, and it ranges from mental health, behavioral health services, from counseling, to condoms and birth control and reproductive health and physicals for sports as well as like immunizations. The school-based health center offers a lot to our kids, and there's kind of a stigma associated with using the school-based health center. It was one of the biggest barriers I think that came, that the kids reported. Jodi McCarthy: Some of the kids didn't want to be seen walking into the school-based health center because "Johnny is going there for you know what, because him and Debbie are going to go under the So there's like this teasing and stigma, I guess, is the best word to describe it, around using the Health Center because they're teenagers. The thing also that was reported by the kids was those who were seeking counseling services. There's often a wait list for them to be seen by a therapist and get some counseling around stress and anxiety and the things that they were dealing with. The other category, things that we found, cellphone policies were inconsistent, and there's issues on the elementary school playground, and food came up. Food options came up a lot, especially with the high school kids. Over at Alameda High, there's access to Park Street, so there's more things for them to eat because who wants to eat school food. But over at Encinal it's a bit of a hike to actually get to something that they find more palatable. Some things that I pulled out of the survey that I wanted to go over really quickly. There's a few items, bullying, drugs and alcohol, and depression, and then there's a couple on the other slide. Jodi McCarthy: The thing that we found was, Alameda High, and I don't know necessarily why, but it has a higher percentage of students that are struggling with things, with bullying, with drugs and alcohol. 86% of the students surveyed felt that a lot or some students were affected by drug or alcohol use. 87%, feelings of depression, right? Versus Encinal where it was only 64%. The stress, anxiety, and feeling worried, 92% of the students at Alameda High felt that kids were going through a lot of anxiety, and a lot of stress. Which really speaks to me. Jodi McCarthy: The threats or feeling unsafe at Alameda High, there was 37% of the students felt that a lot or some of them were affected by feeling unsafe and at Encinal it was only 29%. But it's really that 92% at Alameda High that's kind of got a whole lot of red flags ringing for me. Through the California Healthy Kids survey, some of the biggest areas of concern that we looked at were cigarette use and vaping devices. 5% of seventh graders were using cigarettes or vaping devices. Seventh grade, like in middle school, so it's starting at middle school, and it just, is increasing up to where it was at least half of the students at the continuation school, were vaping or smoking. Chronic sadness and hopelessness was high across the grade levels. Jodi McCarthy: It ranged from 21% to 35%, 14% of the ninth graders, and 21% of the students at the continuation High School had seriously considered attempting suicide. That's seriously considered, not just kind of thought about it but seriously considered it, to even attempting. Cyber bullying was reported the highest in middle school at 12%, and 11th grade at 14%. And kids need to 03/13/19 Page 14 of 32 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-11-28.pdf |