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School Crisis Healing
Thu May 8th
School Crisis Healing
A note from our Project Director:
 
In the weeks leading to our closing, we’ll be sending weekly reflections from our staff with compilations of themed work to download and save. 
 
This week, we highlight our two “train the trainer” // self-directed resources for you: 
1) SCRR Foundational Modules - Recordings, Slides & Materials
2) Trauma Informed School Systems (TISS) for School Crisis Recovery & Renewal - Workshop Slides with Annotated Facilitator Notes, and more
 
We close with parting words from Bri who has been teaching the TISS workshop for 3+ years, having trained over 640 educators, providers, youth advocates, and school leaders. 
 
Take our work and make it yours! 
-Leora
 
Access these trainings below: 

Foundational Modules: https://bit.ly/SCRR_Foundations

TISS: https://bit.ly/SCRR_TISS

#traumainformedschoolsystems 
#schoolcrisis 
#schoolcrisisleadership 
#schoolcrisisrecovery 
#schoolcrisisrenewalImage attachmentImage attachment+3Image attachment

A note from our Project Director:

In the weeks leading to our closing, we’ll be sending weekly reflections from our staff with compilations of themed work to download and save.

This week, we highlight our two “train the trainer” // self-directed resources for you:
1) SCRR Foundational Modules - Recordings, Slides & Materials
2) Trauma Informed School Systems (TISS) for School Crisis Recovery & Renewal - Workshop Slides with Annotated Facilitator Notes, and more

We close with parting words from Bri who has been teaching the TISS workshop for 3+ years, having trained over 640 educators, providers, youth advocates, and school leaders.

Take our work and make it yours!
-Leora

Access these trainings below:

Foundational Modules: bit.ly/SCRR_Foundations

TISS: bit.ly/SCRR_TISS

#traumainformedschoolsystems
#schoolcrisis
#schoolcrisisleadership
#schoolcrisisrecovery
#schoolcrisisrenewal
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NTTAC
Thu May 8th
NTTAC
#ChildrensMentalHealthAwarenessDay: Positive mental health is essential for kids—it means reaching milestones, learning healthy social skills & coping when there are problems. Lets bring awareness about the needs of childrens mental health! 

samhsa.gov/observances/national-childrens-mental-health-awareness-day #AwarenessDay

Alt-text: Kids hands in colorful paint. Text reads “Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day”

 #bringawareness #mentalhealthawareness #children #mentalhealth

#ChildrensMentalHealthAwarenessDay: Positive mental health is essential for kids—it means reaching milestones, learning healthy social skills & coping when there are problems. Let's bring awareness about the needs of children's mental health!

samhsa.gov/observances/national-childrens-mental-health-awareness-day #AwarenessDay

Alt-text: Kids hands in colorful paint. Text reads “Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day”

#bringawareness #mentalhealthawareness #children #mentalhealth
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California Community Colleges Health & Wellness
Wed May 7th
California Community Colleges Health & Wellness
Happening Tomorrow,

Mental Health Action Week is a statewide effort to support student mental health across California Community Colleges. This webinar series offers tools, strategies, and peer insights to help faculty, staff, and providers create more connected, compassionate campuses.

Thursday, May 8, 2025 - Session starts at 10:00 AM | Beyond Crisis: Supporting Students with Suicidal Ideation in Everyday Conversations

This session offers guidance for faculty and staff on how to compassionately support students experiencing suicidal thoughts. Learn how to engage in non-clinical conversations that offer connection and care—without overwhelming your campus’s crisis response systems.

Presented by: Monique Mendoza, PhD, MM Psychology and Solutions, Inc.

Join us for one, two, or all three sessions and be part of the statewide effort to center mental health in higher education. Register Today: https://bit.ly/2025MHAW

Happening Tomorrow,

Mental Health Action Week is a statewide effort to support student mental health across California Community Colleges. This webinar series offers tools, strategies, and peer insights to help faculty, staff, and providers create more connected, compassionate campuses.

Thursday, May 8, 2025 - Session starts at 10:00 AM | Beyond Crisis: Supporting Students with Suicidal Ideation in Everyday Conversations

This session offers guidance for faculty and staff on how to compassionately support students experiencing suicidal thoughts. Learn how to engage in non-clinical conversations that offer connection and care—without overwhelming your campus’s crisis response systems.

Presented by: Monique Mendoza, PhD, MM Psychology and Solutions, Inc.

Join us for one, two, or all three sessions and be part of the statewide effort to center mental health in higher education. Register Today: bit.ly/2025MHAW
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Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
Tue May 6th
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Learn how you can participate in no-cost events happening throughout Orange County this month by visiting www.ocmentalhealthevents.org

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Learn how you can participate in no-cost events happening throughout Orange County this month by visiting www.ocmentalhealthevents.org ... See MoreSee Less

California Community Colleges Health & Wellness
Tue May 6th
California Community Colleges Health & Wellness
Happening Tomorrow, 

Mental Health Action Week is a statewide effort to support student mental health across California Community Colleges. This webinar series offers tools, strategies, and peer insights to help faculty, staff, and providers create more connected, compassionate campuses.

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 - Session starts at 10:00 AM | Making Help Feel Safe: Reducing Stigma & Reaching Students

Gain practical strategies to reduce stigma rooted in cultural and familial beliefs. This session will highlight how to craft outreach that resonates with students and normalizes help-seeking behavior, particularly among populations that may be hesitant to engage with services.

Presented by: Gabrielle Ridley, MS, SHIFT Strategies

Join us for one, two, or all three sessions and be part of the statewide effort to center mental health in higher education. Register Today: https://bit.ly/2025MHAW

Happening Tomorrow,

Mental Health Action Week is a statewide effort to support student mental health across California Community Colleges. This webinar series offers tools, strategies, and peer insights to help faculty, staff, and providers create more connected, compassionate campuses.

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 - Session starts at 10:00 AM | Making Help Feel Safe: Reducing Stigma & Reaching Students

Gain practical strategies to reduce stigma rooted in cultural and familial beliefs. This session will highlight how to craft outreach that resonates with students and normalizes help-seeking behavior, particularly among populations that may be hesitant to engage with services.

Presented by: Gabrielle Ridley, MS, SHIFT Strategies

Join us for one, two, or all three sessions and be part of the statewide effort to center mental health in higher education. Register Today: bit.ly/2025MHAW
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NTTAC
Fri May 2nd
NTTAC
💚 Children’s Mental Health Action Week is almost here!

NTTAC is proud to join the National Federation of Families in uplifting children’s mental health through a month-long focus on Wellness, Resilience, Action, and Purpose. Let’s support the young people in our lives and communities by taking intentional steps toward healing and hope.

🟢 Visit the 2025 CMHAW page to find ways you can take action: https://ow.ly/hb7P50VB5K9

#CMHAW2025 #ChildrensMentalHealth #NTTAC #FamilyDrivenCare #MentalHealthAwareness

💚 Children’s Mental Health Action Week is almost here!

NTTAC is proud to join the National Federation of Families in uplifting children’s mental health through a month-long focus on Wellness, Resilience, Action, and Purpose. Let’s support the young people in our lives and communities by taking intentional steps toward healing and hope.

🟢 Visit the 2025 CMHAW page to find ways you can take action: ow.ly/hb7P50VB5K9

#CMHAW2025 #ChildrensMentalHealth #NTTAC #FamilyDrivenCare #MentalHealthAwareness
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School Crisis Healing
Thu May 1st
School Crisis Healing
A note from our Project Director:
 
As we shared in our previous message, SCRR’s funding ends May 30th. 
 
In the weeks leading to our closing, we’ll be sending weekly reflections from our staff with compilations of themed work to download and save. 
 
This week, we highlight our “Mending Our Wounds” programming. Envisioned by Oriana at the onset of our project, Mending Our Wounds invites (or warmly demands?) us to not only do the work for others, about others, and to others…but for ourselves, about ourselves, and to ourselves.  We are the other half in the relationship with students and with our clients. 
 
Here, we highlight Oriana’s newest blog piece, “Doorways Towards Healing: Mending Our Wounds” that offers her facilitator reflections on two of her signature Mending Our Wounds programs she created for us.
 
We also include video recordings of self-attuning practices we’ve offered at our Summer and Winter Institutes for Educator Healing over the past 5 years. 
 
Find these items at the links below! 
 
Blog: https://bit.ly/SCRR_Doorways
Videos: https://bit.ly/SCRR_Mending

#educatorhealing #schoolcrisishealing #mendingourwounds #selfattuning #artbasedtherapeutics #schoolcrisisleadershipImage attachmentImage attachment+7Image attachment

A note from our Project Director:

As we shared in our previous message, SCRR’s funding ends May 30th.

In the weeks leading to our closing, we’ll be sending weekly reflections from our staff with compilations of themed work to download and save.

This week, we highlight our “Mending Our Wounds” programming. Envisioned by Oriana at the onset of our project, Mending Our Wounds invites (or warmly demands?) us to not only do the work for others, about others, and to others…but for ourselves, about ourselves, and to ourselves. We are the other half in the relationship with students and with our clients.

Here, we highlight Oriana’s newest blog piece, “Doorways Towards Healing: Mending Our Wounds” that offers her facilitator reflections on two of her signature Mending Our Wounds programs she created for us.

We also include video recordings of self-attuning practices we’ve offered at our Summer and Winter Institutes for Educator Healing over the past 5 years.

Find these items at the links below!

Blog: bit.ly/SCRR_Doorways
Videos: bit.ly/SCRR_Mending

#educatorhealing #schoolcrisishealing #mendingourwounds #selfattuning #artbasedtherapeutics #schoolcrisisleadership
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California Community Colleges Health & Wellness
Thu May 1st
California Community Colleges Health & Wellness
Mental Health Action Week is a statewide effort to support student mental health across California Community Colleges. This webinar series offers tools, strategies, and peer insights to help faculty, staff, and providers create more connected, compassionate campuses.

Thursday, May 8, 2025 - Session starts at 10:00 AM | Beyond Crisis: Supporting Students with Suicidal Ideation in Everyday Conversations 

This session offers guidance for faculty and staff on how to compassionately support students experiencing suicidal thoughts. Learn how to engage in non-clinical conversations that offer connection and care—without overwhelming your campus’s crisis response systems. 

Presented by: Monique Mendoza, PhD, MM Psychology and Solutions, Inc. 

Join us for one, two, or all three sessions and be part of the statewide effort to center mental health in higher education. Register Today: https://bit.ly/2025MHAW

Mental Health Action Week is a statewide effort to support student mental health across California Community Colleges. This webinar series offers tools, strategies, and peer insights to help faculty, staff, and providers create more connected, compassionate campuses.

Thursday, May 8, 2025 - Session starts at 10:00 AM | Beyond Crisis: Supporting Students with Suicidal Ideation in Everyday Conversations

This session offers guidance for faculty and staff on how to compassionately support students experiencing suicidal thoughts. Learn how to engage in non-clinical conversations that offer connection and care—without overwhelming your campus’s crisis response systems.

Presented by: Monique Mendoza, PhD, MM Psychology and Solutions, Inc.

Join us for one, two, or all three sessions and be part of the statewide effort to center mental health in higher education. Register Today: bit.ly/2025MHAW
... See MoreSee Less

California Community Colleges Health & Wellness
Wed April 30th
California Community Colleges Health & Wellness
Mental Health Action Week is a statewide effort to support student mental health across California Community Colleges. This webinar series offers tools, strategies, and peer insights to help faculty, staff, and providers create more connected, compassionate campuses.

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 - Session starts at 10:00 AM | Making Help Feel Safe: Reducing Stigma & Reaching Students 

Gain practical strategies to reduce stigma rooted in cultural and familial beliefs. This session will highlight how to craft outreach that resonates with students and normalizes help-seeking behavior, particularly among populations that may be hesitant to engage with services. 

Presented by: Gabrielle Ridley, MS, SHIFT Strategies 

Join us for one, two, or all three sessions and be part of the statewide effort to center mental health in higher education. Register Today: https://bit.ly/2025MHAW

Mental Health Action Week is a statewide effort to support student mental health across California Community Colleges. This webinar series offers tools, strategies, and peer insights to help faculty, staff, and providers create more connected, compassionate campuses.

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 - Session starts at 10:00 AM | Making Help Feel Safe: Reducing Stigma & Reaching Students

Gain practical strategies to reduce stigma rooted in cultural and familial beliefs. This session will highlight how to craft outreach that resonates with students and normalizes help-seeking behavior, particularly among populations that may be hesitant to engage with services.

Presented by: Gabrielle Ridley, MS, SHIFT Strategies

Join us for one, two, or all three sessions and be part of the statewide effort to center mental health in higher education. Register Today: bit.ly/2025MHAW
... See MoreSee Less

Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
Mon April 28th
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
Roosevelt-Walker Community Center Hosts:

Hope, Health & Harmony
May 16, 2025 | 5–8 PM
Roosevelt-Walker Community Center, Santa Ana

Celebrate cultural diversity, wellness, and connection!
Enjoy mindfulness, nutrition demos, wellness activities & a free community picnic.
All are welcome—veterans, LGBTQ+, and diverse communities.

Free Shuttle to Hope, Health & Harmony!
Reserve by May 10, 2025.
Register via QR code, our website, or your community agency:
bit.ly/HHH_Transportation2025

Hosted by OC HCA & partners.
✨ Free & open to all. Join us!Hope, Health & Harmony

To learn more about this event, please visit us at https://bit.ly/HopeHealthHarmony.Image attachmentImage attachment

Roosevelt-Walker Community Center Hosts:

Hope, Health & Harmony
May 16, 2025 | 5–8 PM
Roosevelt-Walker Community Center, Santa Ana

Celebrate cultural diversity, wellness, and connection!
Enjoy mindfulness, nutrition demos, wellness activities & a free community picnic.
All are welcome—veterans, LGBTQ+, and diverse communities.

Free Shuttle to Hope, Health & Harmony!
Reserve by May 10, 2025.
Register via QR code, our website, or your community agency:
bit.ly/HHH_Transportation2025

Hosted by OC HCA & partners.
✨ Free & open to all. Join us!Hope, Health & Harmony

To learn more about this event, please visit us at bit.ly/HopeHealthHarmony.
... See MoreSee Less

California Community Colleges Health & Wellness
Mon April 28th
California Community Colleges Health & Wellness
Mental Health Action Week is a statewide effort to support student mental health across California Community Colleges. This webinar series offers tools, strategies, and peer insights to help faculty, staff, and providers create more connected, compassionate campuses.

Session 1 – Tuesday, May 6, 2025 - Session starts at 10:00 AM
From Student to Support Staff: Learn how Moreno Valley College is building mental health capacity by hiring former students as interns through partnerships with local agencies.

Presented by Dr. Lynette Sullivan-Navarro & Moreno Valley College Partners

Join us for one, two, or all three sessions and be part of the statewide effort to center mental health in higher education. Register Today: https://bit.ly/2025MHAW

Mental Health Action Week is a statewide effort to support student mental health across California Community Colleges. This webinar series offers tools, strategies, and peer insights to help faculty, staff, and providers create more connected, compassionate campuses.

Session 1 – Tuesday, May 6, 2025 - Session starts at 10:00 AM
From Student to Support Staff: Learn how Moreno Valley College is building mental health capacity by hiring former students as interns through partnerships with local agencies.

Presented by Dr. Lynette Sullivan-Navarro & Moreno Valley College Partners

Join us for one, two, or all three sessions and be part of the statewide effort to center mental health in higher education. Register Today: bit.ly/2025MHAW
... See MoreSee Less

School Crisis Healing
Thu April 24th
School Crisis Healing
When we launched in 2020, we held a series of “open houses” to introduce us to you, to welcome you into our collective living room (so to speak). Many folks we met all those years ago are vibrant members of our network today!
 
We want to close how we opened, and on May 8th, we’ll be hosting “close houses” (well that’s not a thing, but it should be). 
 
Join us for a joyful and nourishing gathering (at one of the two times below) designed to celebrate our renewal journey together and nurture all the possibilities surrounding what comes of this invaluable heart-work, next. This informal closing community “mixer” is a chance to reconnect, reflect, commit and recommit—to ourselves, to each other, and to the ongoing practice of renewal beyond SCRR’s program.
 
Together, we’ll witness stories of growth, share moving practices, and imagine bold possibilities for how the essence of renewal work continues to live in our lives and communities—well beyond May 2025.
 
Come as you are. 
 
Bring your brilliance, your wonder, your heart. Let’s celebrate all that we’ve moved through together, collaboratively. 
 
Join us:
 
https://bit.ly/SCRR_ClosingMixers

#schoolcrisisrecovery #schoolcrisishealing #schoolcrisisrenewal #schoolcrisisleadership #educatorhealing #educatorgrief #scrr

When we launched in 2020, we held a series of “open houses” to introduce us to you, to welcome you into our collective living room (so to speak). Many folks we met all those years ago are vibrant members of our network today!

We want to close how we opened, and on May 8th, we’ll be hosting “close houses” (well that’s not a thing, but it should be).

Join us for a joyful and nourishing gathering (at one of the two times below) designed to celebrate our renewal journey together and nurture all the possibilities surrounding what comes of this invaluable heart-work, next. This informal closing community “mixer” is a chance to reconnect, reflect, commit and recommit—to ourselves, to each other, and to the ongoing practice of renewal beyond SCRR’s program.

Together, we’ll witness stories of growth, share moving practices, and imagine bold possibilities for how the essence of renewal work continues to live in our lives and communities—well beyond May 2025.

Come as you are.

Bring your brilliance, your wonder, your heart. Let’s celebrate all that we’ve moved through together, collaboratively.

Join us:

bit.ly/SCRR_ClosingMixers

#schoolcrisisrecovery #schoolcrisishealing #schoolcrisisrenewal #schoolcrisisleadership #educatorhealing #educatorgrief #scrr
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