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Addressing the Mental Health and Social-Emotional Wellbeing of Students and Staff During COVID-19 PART 1 Understanding Trauma: Supporting Students and Staff Through a Collective Trauma Featured Panelists Jeremy D. Butler Director of Community Initiatives for ICAN, co-chair of the Mohawk Valley Regional Youth Justice Team and incumbent President of the Oneida County Youth Services Council Keeping Families Together ™ Carrie E. Conte, LCSW Community Initiatives Program Manager for Integrated Community Alternatives Network 1 © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential The information provided in this webinar is provided as a risk management tool. It is provided with the understanding that the member insurance companies of the Utica National Insurance Group are not providing legal advice, or any other professional services or advice. Utica National shall have no liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages alleged to have been caused, directly or indirectly, by the use of this information. You are encouraged to consult an attorney or other professional for advice on these issues.
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COVID-19 Online Courses Prepare Staff and Students for the Return to School with Essential Safety Training Sponsored by Utica National For more information or for initial setup, please contact info@safeschools. com STUDENT COURSES • • COVID-19 Awareness COVID-19: Handwashing COVID-19: Face Coverings COVID-19: Social Distancing STAFF COURSES • • COVID-19 Awareness Making & Using Cloth Face Coverings Cleaning & Disinfecting Your Workplace Managing Stress & Anxiety Preparing Your Household Reopening Your Organization Transitioning to a Remote Workforce The information provided in this webinar is provided as a risk management tool. It is provided with the understanding that the member insurance companies of the Utica National Insurance Group are not providing legal advice, or any other professional services or advice. Utica National shall have no liability to any person or en with respect to any loss or damages alleged to have been caused, directly or indirectly, by the use of this information. You are encouraged to consult an attorney or other professional for advice on these issues.
Addressing the Mental Health and Social-Emotional Wellbeing of Students and Staff During COVID-19 PART 1 Understanding Trauma: Supporting Students and Staff Through a Collective Trauma Featured Panelists Jeremy D. Butler Director of Community Initiatives for ICAN, co-chair of the Mohawk Valley Regional Youth Justice Team and incumbent President of the Oneida County Youth Services Council Keeping Families Together ™ Carrie E. Conte, LCSW Community Initiatives Program Manager for Integrated Community Alternatives Network 4 © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential The information provided in this webinar is provided as a risk management tool. It is provided with the understanding that the member insurance companies of the Utica National Insurance Group are not providing legal advice, or any other professional services or advice. Utica National shall have no liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages alleged to have been caused, directly or indirectly, by the use of this information. You are encouraged to consult an attorney or other professional for advice on these issues.
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Understanding Trauma: Supporting Students and Staff Through a Collective Trauma Presented by: Carrie Conte, LCSW- Community Initiatives Program Manager Jeremy D. Butler, Director of Community Initiatives Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 6
Objectives of today’s training • Gain a better understanding of what trauma is • Understand how trauma affect the families we work with • Better understanding of how we get better outcomes when we understand Trauma Informed Care • Learn at least 1 new thing • Participate Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 7
WHAT IS TRAUMA? Individual trauma results from: • • • an event series of events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual • as physically or emotionally harmful or life-threatening with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being. (~SAMSHA) Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 8
3 E’s of Trauma EFFECTS EXPERIENCE EVENTS Keeping Families Together ™ Effects- effects of trauma include adverse physical, social, emotional, or spiritual Experience- an individual’s experience of the event determines whether it is traumatic Events- events/circumstances that cause trauma © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 9
STRESS • STRESS (on/off) is healthy for us! • DISTRESS (Chronic) is toxic to our brain and body! Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 10
Acute Stress Severe, intense stress resulting from exposure to such trauma as abuse or violence. Acute stress is more likely to lead to aggressive “in your face” behavior Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 11
Chronic Stress Often has opposite effect; increased detachment and hopelessness. The more chronic stress experienced, the more kids perceive events as uncontrollable and unpredictable Often mislabeled as “an attitude” or “Lazy” Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 12
IMPACT OF TRAUMA • Activation of survival responses: • • Fight Flight Freeze Submit • Shutting down of non-essential tasks. • Rational thought is less possible at this time. (Hopper, 2009) Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 13
TRAUMA RESPONSES • Hyper-arousal • Re-Experiencing • Avoidance and Withdrawal Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 14
TRAUMA INFORMED CARE- What we are trying to do • Avoid Re-Victimization • Appreciate many problem behaviors began as understandable attempts to cope • Strives to maximize choices for survivor and provide control over healing process • Seeks to be culturally competent • Understands each survivor in the context of life experiences and cultural background Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 15
The heart of trauma theory Sickness vs Injury Model Changing the fundamental question from “What’s wrong with you? ” Keeping Families Together ™ TO “What happened to you? ” © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 16
Sickness vs Injury Model • • • What’s wrong with you? ! Sickness implies that the cause of the problem is within the sufferer it implies individual weakness or defect and stabilization may be all we can do • Includes physical, psychological, social, and moral forms of injury • Includes deprivation, neglect, and developmental insult • Implied rehabilitation process that is mutual, long term, ; Requires active collaboration relationship between helper and injured party • Removes stigma and shame • Provides understandable shared framework • Increase in compassion, increase in expectations it implies helplessness it relies largely on “expert” knowledge; patients are expected to be “compliant” and are reprimanded if they are not it denies personal and social accountability Keeping Families Together ™ What happened to you? © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 17
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study • A decade-long and ongoing collaboration between Kaiser Permanente’s Department of Preventive Medicine in San Diego, CA, and the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention. • With 18, 000 participants, this is the largest study of its kind that’s ever been done to examine the health and social effects of adverse childhood experiences over the lifespan. • Studies of traumatized individuals often tend to focus on specific demographic groups (poor and/or minority populations). These populations are included in the ACE study, and so are “average, middle-class” people: the majority of participants were 50 or older (62%), were white (77%), and had attended college (72%). • More information can be found at WWW. ACESTUDY. ORG Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 18
What are the 10 ACES? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Physical Abuse Sexual Abuse Emotional Abuse Physical Neglect Emotional Neglect Parental separation or divorce Mother treated violently Household substance abuse Family members with Mental Illness Incarcerated household member Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 19
Ace Findings: Mechanics by which Adverse Childhood Experiences influence health and well-being throughout the lifespan. Death Social Problems, Disease Adoption of High Risk Behaviors Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Impairment Disrupted Neurodevelopment Adverse Childhood Experiences Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 20
ACES Questionnaire Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 21
Enter your results https: //www. menti. com/1 ydyb 1 ihjx Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 22
Overall findings of the ACE Study • More than ½ the people were exposed to at least 1 • 1 out of 16 was exposed to 4 or more types of ACEs • 1 out of 4 was exposed to 2 different types of ACEs Keeping Families Together ™ • Adverse experiences in childhood were associated with a variety of social, health, and mental health problems later in life © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 23
More findings • 80% of children in Foster Care fall into the category of having at least 4 ACEs Those with more ACEs reported more problems including: • Cigarette Smoking • Attempted Suicide • Being raped • Alcoholism • Teen Pregnancy • Experiencing Hallucinations • IV Drug Use • Having more than 50 sexual partners • Serious Job Problems • Chronic Depression • STDs • Premature Mortality Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 24
Things that make you go hmmm… Its just common sense that… • People avoid things that scare them • People avoid pain • If somebody hurts you, you get away from them • We can tell who can be trusted and who can’t • People learn from their experiences • Parents love their children • You don’t hurt the people that you love • People remember anything that is really terrible Keeping Families Together ™ Reality is, Traumatized Children often… • • Put themselves in situations of danger Hurt themselves Get into and stay in relationships with hurtful people Are frequently unable discern who is to be trusted Don’t seem to learn from experience Have been hurt by people who were supposed to love them Frequently hurt the people they love the most Don’t remember the worst experiences of their lives © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 25
Parallel Process Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 26
Parallel Process Community Organization Changes in finance Decrease in trainings Increase in paperwork Turnover More surveillance Staff Loss Neglect Abuse Domestic Violence Children and families Substance abuse Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 27
Parallel symptoms Hypersensitivity to Environmental Threat Extremist Thinking Aggression and Impulse Control Attention to threat while ignoring less threatening but important information Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 28
Collective Disturbance Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 29
Signs of Impending Collective Disturbance Errors in technique Security errors Missing or canceling meetings Breakdown in communication Messages forgotten Inability to make decisions Increased absenteeism Increased withdrawal by key staff members Sense that “something is going to happen” Increased sense of helplessness Escalation of incidents Client complaints Staff preoccupied with problems of or with other staff Keeping Families Together ™ Staff complaints Injuries © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 30
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2 Trauma Case Studies Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 32
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THANK YOU Contact Us: Carrie Conte , LCSW cconte@ican. family (315) 725 -2832 Jeremy D. Butler jbutler@ican. family (315) 939 -2077 www. ican. family Keeping Families Together ™ © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential 34
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Addressing the Mental Health and Social-Emotional Wellbeing of Students and Staff During COVID-19 PART 2 COMING UP ON OCTOBER 22, 2020 from 10: 00 AM to 11: 30 AM Living in “Virtual” Reality: How the Virtual World is Impacting Our Mental Health Featured Panelists Jeremy D. Butler Director of Community Initiatives for ICAN, co-chair of the Mohawk Valley Regional Youth Justice Team and incumbent President of the Oneida County Youth Services Council Keeping Families Together ™ Carrie E. Conte, LCSW Community Initiatives Program Manager for Integrated Community Alternatives Network 36 © 2019 ICAN | Proprietary and Confidential The information provided in this webinar is provided as a risk management tool. It is provided with the understanding that the member insurance companies of the Utica National Insurance Group are not providing legal advice, or any other professional services or advice. Utica National shall have no liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages alleged to have been caused, directly or indirectly, by the use of this information. You are encouraged to consult an attorney or other professional for advice on these issues.
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