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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-11-28 | 21 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 6:30 PM at sort of a peer-to-peer model. Jodi McCarthy: We have that. The county runs a program called TUPE, Tobacco-Use Prevention Education. They use a peer-to-peer model, so they do a lot of training of peers around tobacco and vaping and stuff like that, to go out and do the work. They do that in the middle and high schools. So we have our middle and high schools participating in that. And then also through the school- based health centers, they have something called, YEAH, and I forget right now what that stands for, but it's Youth Education something, but it's the students doing peer-to-peer connections within the high schools. And what we presented, don't forget, it's a deficit model. We're doing a lot of amazing, wonderful things, but we have huge needs. Victoria Forester: Certainly, my experience is that a lot of kids are the identified patients. And so there was a lot that you said about family pressures and stresses at home that the kids are bringing to school. And again, that's sort of beyond the scope of what a school can look at, but I think that that plays a part, it might be the one that's showing up, displaying the stress and they're coming to the place where they do that, but it's a larger system that's playing it, it's what loops back to what services were available. Acting Chair Jenn Barrett: Commissioner Anto. Anto Aghapekian: I'm overwhelmed with all the information that you gave us tonight, and I'm basically humbled. [inaudible]. Acting Chair Jenn Barrett: Yeah, I want to follow up on that as well. The work that you're doing is definitely very difficult with all the things that are coming in different directions and stuff. So we really thank you for the work that you do and for coming to present with us. It's really great. And we have people who listen to this meeting as well. So, it's hopefully getting out to a broad base. With so many issues that you've brought up, where do you start? I'm just listening all these things and I'm like, "Gosh, I wouldn't know where to start." Do you start with the suicide prevention? Do you start with the vaping? How do you tackle this? Jodi McCarthy: It can be really overwhelming. It's a lot. And we're doing a lot as a district. Kirsten Zazo and myself, she's the Chief of Student Support Services, we are on the board of Alameda Family Services, to kind of strengthen that partnership, we're doing a lot of outreach and, "Hey, we need help", type things. We're also doing a lot of things at the district. We're doing the multi-tier systems of support, which is providing different supports, both academics, socio-emotional at all of our school sites. Girls Inc is an amazing partner. They are putting groups, girls groups in every single elementary school, trying to empower these young women in our political climate that we have right now that is not. Anyway, so they're empowering girls, and teaching girls how to talk to each other, and how to be friends and not be so catty, and just strengthening those skills at the elementary level, so that when they get to the high school and middle school level, they'll have a solid base. Jodi McCarthy: It is doing things like bringing in restorative practices. There's about 10 of us or so at the district office that are trained, trainers for restorative practices. So teaching We have this 03/13/19 Page 21 of 32 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-11-28.pdf |