All lives matter: A Look into the Often Overlooked Student Population.

Format

Individual Presentation

First Presenter's Institution

Richmond County Board of Education

First Presenter’s Email Address

JenniTa@richmond.k12.ga.us

First Presenter's Brief Biography

I have a Bachelor of Arts degree from Augusta State University in History and a Master of Science degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling Troy University. I currently work as a MTSS Facilitator in my school district. have over 10 years of experience providing counseling and case management services to children, adults, and families in the community setting as well as school settings as a counselor, in the home, and in agency settings. I also acted as Program director at an agency that provided mental health counseling in a group setting in my district as well as developed new programs, collaborated and served on multiple interdisciplinary teams, and supervised other counselors in the mental health field. I have no biological children but I have been a foster parent for the past five years fostering mainly teen girls.​

Location

Session Eight

Strand #1

Home: Family & Community Engagement

Strand #2

Heart: Social & Emotional Skills

Relevance

During my presentation I will be speaking on mainly children in foster care, African American Males,and females.

I will be speaking on children in foster care and look into sex trafficking and how to recognize when they are being sex trafficked along with how to build relationships with and work with that population.

I will also be exploring the skewed numbers that African American girls are suspended from school in comparison to their counterparts along with talking about the amount of girls who have untreated mental health.I will also be exploring ways to build therapeutic relationships with them as well since AA girls are usually simply labeled "difficult".

Lastly,I will be exploring statictics surrounding AA males who grow up without a father in the home and the importance of having mentoring programs to address the deficit.

Brief Program Description

We will be exploring children who are often overlooked in the school setting to include: those in foster care, and African American students and discuss better ways to better serve them.

Summary

During this presentation those in attendance will be provided with statistics of children in foster care to include the large amount that are being sex trafficked. I will talk about ways to recognize when someone could be currently sex trafficked or when someone is recruiting others to be sex trafficked. I will also be talking about ways to counselor those with a history of being trafficked.

I will then discuss African American females and how the suicide rate is high and why.I will also discuss how AA girls are suspended at an alarming rate compared to their counterparts and discuss alternatives to always suspending a child.

Lastly, I will be discussing AA males and the lack of male role models and have a discussion of what we as educators can do to increase father participation in the school setting.

Evidence

*Child Welfare Information Gateway. (2021). Foster care statistics 2019. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children's Bureau. https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/ factsheets/foster/

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/research-confirms-that-black-girls-feel-the-sting-of-adultification-bias-identified-in-earlier-georgetown-law-study/

*https://www.future-ed.org/in-schools-black-girls-confront-both-racial-and-gender-bias/

Learning Objective 1

List ways to work with students who have a history of being sex trafficked

Learning Objective 2

Discuss alternative discipline methods instead of suspension from school

Learning Objective 3

Identify what the ACE assessment is

Keyword Descriptors

foster care, sex traffic, mental health, education, males, females

Presentation Year

2024

Start Date

3-6-2024 9:15 AM

End Date

3-6-2024 9:45 AM

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Mar 6th, 9:15 AM Mar 6th, 9:45 AM

All lives matter: A Look into the Often Overlooked Student Population.

Session Eight

We will be exploring children who are often overlooked in the school setting to include: those in foster care, and African American students and discuss better ways to better serve them.