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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-11-28 | 15 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 6:30 PM eat their breakfast, whether or not they have You know, my kids have it, it's in there, that they don't, kids need to eat their breakfast. We provide options for them at school, in the office, mostly, there's a bowl of fresh fruit or in most school offices there's access to food, kids have the access to food, they just need to eat it. Jodi McCarthy: The online survey. Depression, feeling sad, teasing and problems at home were the areas for all three groups, the students, the parents and the staff that really popped up when it came to why kids were feeling stressed. There's underlying, there's already underlying mental health issues with depression or sadness. There's teasing and there's problems at home. In the top five relationship issues, staff reported that there's bullying and families reported that their kids are feeling lonely or left out. The focus groups were so fun. Jodi McCarthy: The biggest unmet needs that the kids told us about in these groups was there's a lot of stress that they're dealing with, there's a lot of conflicts trying to balance everything. They've got a full academic load at school plus they play sports plus they're in clubs and then there's their social needs and playing Fortnite and all the other stuff that goes along with being a kid, it's really hard for them to kind of find balance and they need strategies and they need skills. They reported a lot of like, I need to learn how to manage it and I don't know how, and they need somebody to show them how to do it. Jodi McCarthy: And dealing with social situations with their friends. High school students reported a huge problem with cannabis. They reported that vaping and marijuana was quite common and not unheard of, and it's even bigger than the alcohol use in the school. Adderall is big especially during finals. They reported a lot of depression, anxiety, and stress, too much homework, struggling with their grades, and teachers not understanding really what's going on with them at home. Pulling out the two different sub-groups the African-American and the high achieving students, the African-American students reported stress balancing life with sports and grades and homework and family life. Jodi McCarthy: They really felt that their teachers and the adults on campus don't know what's going on with them. There's not a lot of connection that they feel with the adults on campus. They really said that they need more support and they felt like there wasn't a community and the teachers didn't really care if they passed or failed. That they were just another body in a class. So we need to do a better job at connecting with those students. And our high achieving students said that sleep was a huge issue. Stress, depression, anxiety and again, the balancing of their lives, the balancing of school and sports and the different clubs and stuff that they belong to. They really felt pressured to develop relationships with adults on campus. They felt like, that was something that they really needed to do. And parent pressure, they reported a lot of pressure and stress from their parents and their expectations of them, and living up to those expectations. Jodi McCarthy: That was a lot.So out of all of that we dug really deep to kind of get at the needs of our students, we came up with the next steps. We have already formed a steering committee to kind of help drive this work now that we have it. We have a committee. We met already, in November, there's three other dates that we're going to meet through the school year to help gather the work and drive it, developing a communication plan so that we can bring out our findings to the 03/13/19 Page 15 of 32 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-11-28.pdf |