Utilizing What We Know Works To Promote Mental Wellness By Fostering Empathy, Resiliency & Self-Regulation

First Presenter's Institution

Legacy Early College

First Presenter's Brief Biography

Lucila Beaton, LISW-CP graduated with a MSW degree from Yeshiva University. She is an independently licensed clinical social worker with a specialization as a Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapist. She is also a Certified Mental Health First Aid Instructor for the National Council of Behavioral Health, and a trainer for Living Works providing suicide intervention and prevention trainings such as ASIST and SafeTalk. She also provides Triple P parent trainings for levels 2,3 & 4 in English and Spanish. Her career began in New York City school systems, serving as a bilingual social worker in IEP and multidisciplinary teams and as Dean of students in a suburban high school with over 4,000 students. She has supported students with special needs, serving in IEP teams in New York and working in different capacities and settings including self-contained, inclusion and general education settings. As clinical director at a Behavioral Health clinic, which provided therapy and behavior modification services to children and families with mental health diagnosis across seven counties in South Carolina she embedded trauma informed practices and protocols into the clinic’s processes from intake to discharge. She is bilingual and bicultural and embraces the intersectionality of being an Afro-Latina and all that it brings. She never forgets that she began her career as an ESOL student in the public school system in Brooklyn, NY. Throughout her career, she has enjoyed supporting families in their engagement with different systems, assisting them in their interactions with school districts, mental health agencies, community agencies and judicial systems. Ms. Beaton has recently completed a fellowship with the National Latino Behavioral Health Association and has just been invited to become a trainer with SAMHSA to roll out their new Core Competencies as a representative for the National Hispanic and Latino PTTC.

Document Type

Event

Primary Strand

Mental Health

Relevance to Primary Strand

This session will look at ways that the effects of trauma on the developing brain can be mitigated through utilizing trauma informed and evidence-based practices in our daily interactions and positive behavioral supports imbedded in our work both at school and in the community.

Alignment with School Improvement Plan Topics

Climate and Culture

Brief Program Description

This presentation looks at ways that educators can promote mental wellness in our youth utilizing relationships as a vehicle to enhance certain qualities such as empathy and resilience. It will also explore self-regulation as a collaborative process. Leadership through mentorship and the healing that occurs by leveraging the impact of a caring adult on a youth that has been affected by trauma will be explained.

Summary

This session will discuss ways to apply effective strategies to build social competence and self regulation. It will do so through the lens of relationships, in particular, leadership through mentorship. It will look at some of the effects trauma, neglect and chronic stress have on the developing brain and look at what strategies could be employed to mitigate these factors. Participants will be able to participate in interactive activities that will allow them to explore strategies or practices that are not only trauma-informed but also trauma skilled.

Evidence

This proposal will deal with ways to implement Dr. Bruce Perry's Neurosequential model of therapeutics in educational and community settings to inform practices, strategies and policies that at trauma sensitive and inform. It will also include research from SAMHSA as well as other current research about the mental health of children and youth since 2020.

Learning Objective 1

Define concepts such as empathy, resilience and self-regulation and identify how they fit into our mental wellness

Learning Objective 2

Learn how they relate to each other, how they interact with one another in our development

Learning Objective 3

Learn how we can nurture these within ourselves and foster them in others

Learning Objective 4

Look at ways that we can utilize these qualities in enriching our mentoring relationships and make us more effective leaders

This document is currently not available here.

Share

COinS
 

Utilizing What We Know Works To Promote Mental Wellness By Fostering Empathy, Resiliency & Self-Regulation

This session will discuss ways to apply effective strategies to build social competence and self regulation. It will do so through the lens of relationships, in particular, leadership through mentorship. It will look at some of the effects trauma, neglect and chronic stress have on the developing brain and look at what strategies could be employed to mitigate these factors. Participants will be able to participate in interactive activities that will allow them to explore strategies or practices that are not only trauma-informed but also trauma skilled.