Healing and Restoring Hearts by Learning to Manage Your Crazy
I need to be certified in the counseling modality Managing Your Crazy Self to best support and empower all stakeholders with in my school community.
$1,827 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
The students that attend The PACE Center are students that are at risk of dropping out and are struggling to be successful with in the traditional school setting.
Our students are struggling to make better choices in life and often times are in a place where the only place to go is up.
Most kids have been exposed to some type of trauma that has now changed their approach to life.
Our campus serves two functions for the district. The first is an alternative placement for students who breach the code of conduct at their home campus. Often times students are caught abusing drugs or are having difficulty with managing their behavior. They will come to us for an alternative placement as a consequence. We also serve as a holding ground for students that are on their way to Juvenal Detention. It is common for our students to be faced with legal issues.
The second function for our campus is considered the school of choice. Students apply, interview, and attend an orientation with their parents in order to attend our campus. These students have come to the realization that they need more support than the traditional campus.
My Project
I would like to be certified in a counseling modality called Managing Your Crazy Self.
Learning this concept will allow me to work and educate students, staff, and parents on how to manage their responses and reactions to daily life.
As a Student Support Counselor I work with both students and staff to provide the mental health support they need. As people I am a firm believer that we must do the work within ourselves to do the work within in others. I help facilitate the work on self with staff. With the Managing Your Crazy Self certification I will be able to best support all stakeholders make better choices for themselves. Students will be taught healthy coping mechanisms to manage their emotions through one to one visits and small group meetings. By working with students individually we will create a personal tool box. This tool box of self help and self care tools can be implement into daily use. Students will learn which coping strategies work best with their personality. In addition, their is a social emotional curriculum that can be implemented through classroom lessons that both teachers and students will benefit from.
The staff and community will be supported by learning these skills in training and community meetings.
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