This session will provide classroom teachers with tools to proactively create a culture of emotional safety and belonging and develop a toolbox of reactive strategies when a student becomes dysregulated.

Participants will gain an understanding of how trauma impacts school attendance. Strategies for helping all staff increase regular attendance rates will be shared.

This training is for those interested in diving deeper into self and co-regulation, including the mind and body connection. Emphasis will be on ways to remain calm and alert, ultimately supporting our ability to effectively respond and not react to strong emotions and stressors.

SafeTALK teaches participants to recognize and engage persons who might be having thoughts of suicide and to connect them with community resources trained in suicide intervention. safeTALK stresses safety while challenging taboos that inhibit open talk about suicide. The safeTALK learning process is highly structured, providing graduated exposure to practice actions. The program is designed to help participants age 15 or older to monitor the effect of false societal beliefs that can cause otherwise caring and helpful people to miss, dismiss, or avoid suicide alerts and to practice the TALK steps to move past these three barriers. Six 60-90 second video scenarios, each with non-alert and alert clips, are selected from a library of scenarios and strategically used through the training to provide experiential referents for the participants.

SafeTALK teaches participants to recognize and engage persons who might be having thoughts of suicide and to connect them with community resources trained in suicide intervention. safeTALK stresses safety while challenging taboos that inhibit open talk about suicide. The safeTALK learning process is highly structured, providing graduated exposure to practice actions. The program is designed to help participants age 15 or older to monitor the effect of false societal beliefs that can cause otherwise caring and helpful people to miss, dismiss, or avoid suicide alerts and to practice the TALK steps to move past these three barriers. Six 60-90 second video scenarios, each with non-alert and alert clips, are selected from a library of scenarios and strategically used through the training to provide experiential referents for the participants.

Target Audience:  Teachers, Admins, Social Workers, Psychologists, Counselors This course teaches school professionals how to create trauma-informed schools and classrooms.

Target Audience: Returning District/Building Teams to the MISD Attendance Network Returning participants from the previous years Attendance Network will attend the half day Kick-Off Session on August 20, 2024 from 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm Participants will also attend the 2024-25 Network Session Dates of: 2024- September 13, October 4, November 8, December 6 2025- February 7, March 7, May 2 Session Times: 8:00am-10:00am The afternoon will start with access to the new PowerSchool Attendance Data Reports. *Your Team will need access to PowerSchool with knowledge of how to create reports.

Target Audience: New District/Building Teams to the MISD Attendance Network New Participants joining the Attendance Network will attend the all day Kick-Off Session on August 20, 2024 from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm Participants will also attend the 2024-25 Network Session Dates of: 2024- September 13, October 4, November 8, December 6 2025- February 7, March 7, May 2 Session Times: 8:00am-10:00am The day will start with an introduction of the MISD Facilitators, Network Series Outcomes, Foundational Information, Access to Resources and Navigation within the Shared Google Drive. Participants will also learn and access the new PowerSchool Attendance Data Reports. *Your Team will need access to PowerSchool with knowledge of how to create reports.