1. Rancho Cotate High School Support Services
Angela Scardina
Assistant Principal
Rancho Cotate High School
You are Awesome!

2. What is wrong with this person? What has this person been through?
Changing Mindsets
What is wrong with this person?
vs.
What has this person been through?

3. Current Research
“About 30% of girls and 20% of boys --- totaling 6.3 million teens --- have had an anxiety disorder – according to data from the National Institute of Mental Health.”
“We’re the first generation that cannot escape our problems at all, “ says Faith-Ann. “We’re all like little volcanoes. We’re getting this constant pressure , from our phones, from our relationships, from the way things are today.”
“Being a teenager today is a draining full-time job that includes doing schoolwork, managing a social-media identity and fretting about career, climate change, sexism, racism – you name it.”
Schrobsdorff, Susanna. “The Kids Are Not All Right.” Newsweek. November 7, 2016.
Failing is not always failure

4. The ACEs Study
Kaiser and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) decided to study the physical impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
They surveyed over 17,000 adult Kaiser members with a 10 question survey.
The survey asked about events surrounding: violence, sexual abuse, neglect, and family dysfunction that happened during childhood.
For every “yes” answer the patient got a point (an ACE) with 10 points being the highest.
Relax - listen to your soul

5. they would have problems with: Alcoholism and alcohol abuse
The higher the ACEs score the more child stress the patient experienced and the more likely
they would have problems with:
Alcoholism and alcohol abuse
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Depression
Fetal death
Health-related quality of life
Illicit drug use
Ischemic heart disease (IHD)
Liver disease
Risk for intimate partner violence
Multiple sexual partners
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
Smoking
Suicide attempts
Unintended pregnancies
Early initiation of smoking
Early initiation of sexual activity
Adolescent pregnancy
Never forget about your passion

6. Ace Results

7. The Biology of Toxic Stress
Most of us have known for a long time that children growing up in highly stressful environments, without the proper support, lack many of the social and academic skills of a child who is not in that environment.
Recent biological research is uncovering the pathology of the toxic stress.
Wake up and be inspired

8. Remember that to overcome ACES:
Just as the brain can be harmed by negative experience, so too, may it be healed through positive experience.
Develop safe, stable, and nurturing relationships
Everyday is a second chance.

9. Biology of Toxic Stress
Said another way: “You might have inherited not just your grandmother’s knobby knees, but also her predisposition toward depression caused by the neglect she suffered as a newborn.”
Hurley, Dan “Gandma’s Experiences Leave a Mark on Your Genes” Discover, 6/25/15
Epigenetics
It is nolonger Nature or Nurture
Nurture effects Nature
You always have a choice.

10. What Can We Do as Teachers?
Healthy connections, with an adult who understands, is one of the most powerful things we can provide.
-A simple way to start making the connections is to do a check-in.
Don't be afraid. Just believe.

11. You are the best!

12. Support Meet and Greet QPR CPI CPDAAC
Parent Outreach
Support Meet and Greet
NAMI
Project Success
QPR
CPI
CPDAAC
Keep up the good work!

13. Believe you can and you are halfway there.

14. Middle School Outreach
Don't stop believing!

15. Drug and Alcohol
Simulations
ALways remember who you are

16. Project Success Services 2015-2016 Fall 2016
Group Participation 82
170+
Individual Seen
146
329
Parent Presentations/Activities 3 4
Prevention Education Series
37 classrooms
769 students
Life is but a dream

17. Transition Plan Student Parent Administrator Counselor Project Success
Accept Yourself - Always be Genuine

18. What is wrong with this person? What has this person been through?
Changing Mindsets
What is wrong with this person?
vs.
What has this person been through?

19. Thank you very much for your continued support of all the students in the district. Thank you for recognizing that the needs of our students are changing and that we need to be able to provide services to all students.