1. Do You Meet Every Need of Every Child in Your School Every Day?
Presenters:
Carrie Booker, Poplar Bluff, MO
Mindy Hicks, Berryville, AR
Barb Lake, Neosho, MO
Tracie Skaggs, Carl Junction, MO

2. Open discussion, turn and talk to your neighbor

3. Basic Needs How do we identify the basic needs?
Who? Who identifies the needs?
How? Those who can “see” the student and those who will “listen” to the student.

4. Basic Needs What Questions Do We Ask?
Why is the student in this “need” situation?
Is this a temporary or long-term situation?
What other needs are not being met?
Who is part of this family/network?
(ex. A weekend backpack won’t be enough food to sustain a family.)

5. While we do look into the situation, we must remember…
Pass the Bobcat Pride – Jacey’s Story. When the worst thing that can happen is you giving a student a shirt that they do not need.

6. Basic Needs What resources do we have to meet the need?
Food Banks, Food Programs
Distribution center, clothes closets, free store
Donated funds
Champions – Facebook Page,

7. Psychological Needs
How do we identify students with psychological needs?
All students need to feel valued, to understand they are important, to know they are worth loving.

8. …and EVERY person in your school and in your community can be a CHAMPION!

9. Psychological Needs What resources do we have to meet the need?
Mentor Programs
Lunch Buddies
Tutoring
One-on-One relationships
One-on-One relationships – Teachers, adults, students/peers, younger students, and older students. Someone who chooses to be a champion.

10. Psychological Needs It isn’t always a hand-out…
Often it is The Power of One:
A kind word
Support
Information/Education
Accountability

11. Self-Fulfillment Needs
How do we get our students and our families to this level?
This is where we want everyone to be…the road is not easy.

12. Self-Fulfillment Needs
We must first ensure that their basic needs are met.

14. Self-Fulfillment Needs
We must first ensure that EVERY CHILD HAS A CHAMPION!
One-on-One relationships – Teachers, adults, students/peers, younger students, and older students. Someone who chooses to be a champion.

15. Self-Fulfillment Needs
What resources do we have to meet the need?
Recognition Programs
Student Led Organizations/Groups
Independence

16. Self-Fulfillment
This is a student-led program. Students took the lead on “Pass the Bobcat Pride”. In this picture, one of the girls holding a shirt was a student who benefited from the project. After choosing her shirt, she asked if she could help with the distribution. These students are successful; they can empower others.

17. Whose Job is it to Meet the Needs of our Students?
The teacher
The counselor
The nurse
The principal
The lunch lady
The custodian
The parent volunteer
You Me
Everyone

18. Seeing the Big Picture Food4Families Relationships with families
Hear about the needs first hand before the students bring the problem to school
Helping the whole family unit

19. How is the Big Picture Addressed?

20. Questions?