Navigating Burnout: Cultivating Self-Care and Inclusive Practice
Virtual Session – Zoom FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2024, 9:30 – 11AM
Audience: Birth-21: Family Engagement Staff, Mental Health Professionals, Support Staff, Educators and Staff who work with families
Presenter: Dr. Alexis Melville, SERC Consultant
Join us for a virtual workshop on burnout prevention, designed specifically for educators and support staff who engage with families. In this dynamic session, we will explore understanding and preventing burnout, embracing diversity, and cultivating effective self-care practices. We will discuss the unique challenges faced by educators and support staff, including but not limited to the pressure associated with constantly performing and the guilt associated with taking a break. We will also explore how personal, cultural, and systemic factors can influence the process of burnout. Through group activities and interactive discussions, participants will walk away with authentic means to engage in self-care, allowing for more opportunities to connect in trusting and collaborative relationships between educators and families.
School Based Center for Prevention, Education and Advocacy – Virtual Open House
Virtual Session (Zoom) -Offered Twice: MONDAY, MAY 13, 2024, 1 – 2PM OR TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2024, 10 – 11AM
Audience: Schools, Communities and Families
Presenter: Bianca Irizarry, and Christina Simms, SERC Consultants
The State Education Resource Center (SERC) has created a new centralized School-Based Center for Prevention, Education and Advocacy, developed for grades PreK-12. “We continue to provide programs and services to our schools and communities as we collectively create equitable and safe learning environments for our young people, and we look forward to this ongoing support in substance misuse prevention as well,” said SERC Executive Director Ingrid M. Canady. “The school-based center will help schools connect to what they need before the next crisis.”
Join us for a virtual open house and learn about the Center’s substance use and mental health support materials and resources.
Parent Village Facilitator Training
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2024, 9AM – 4PM
Location: Stratford High School, 45 North Parade, Stratford CT 06615
Audience: Families, faith-Based leaders, parent leaders, family engagement staff, and educators
Presenters: Lindsay Dumas, M.Ed., Director of Training and Capacity Building, Families in Schools
Parent Village Facilitator Training: BE PART OF BUILDING AND FACILITATING PARENT VILLAGES IN YOUR COMMUNITY, providing support while building strong, healthy families and communities.
The Parent Villages curriculum and toolkit brings small groups of parents together over four sessions to activate parents as leaders and advocates. Serving as an introduction to leadership and advocacy, parents learn how to foster community, forge collective identity, find their voice, and fight for change.
Participants will take a deep dive into the Parent Village toolkit and curriculum and learn how to host a “Parent Village” in their community. The four-session curriculum, available in English and Spanish and for virtual or in-person settings, includes engaging and interactive group learning activities promoting parent leadership, parent voice, and parent agency to advocate for a society that better supports parents – a parent nation – essential for all children to thrive. This training will equip participants with leadership and facilitation skills activating parent power and advocacy.