partnership for resilience: improving health and education for at-risk youth
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Partnership for Resilience: Improving Health and Education for At-Risk Youth Audrey SoglinDavid SoglinNRCP Conference April 3, 2016
Educational Reform
Address achievement gaps
Laser like focus on teachers, teacher policies and testing tenure evaluation dismissal
No excuses mindset
The Prize by Dale Russakoff
$100 Million dollars to “fix” the Newark Schools and become the education model for the country.
Medical/Health Reform
Productivity / RVU’s
Primary Care Medical Home Medicaid Managed Care Population Health
Percent Illinois children age 6-17 who missed 11 or more days of school due to illness or injury
2003 2007 2011-1201234567
Annie E Casey Foundation, KIDS Count Data Center
Illinois Poverty
Recent data from Illinois State Board of Education says 54% of Illinois children live in poverty. An increase of 2% since 2012.
Children in Poverty in America
The percent of children living in poverty in 2014 is 21.1 percent
In 2014, nearly 6.8 million children – nearly one in 11 – lived in extreme poverty
The youngest children have the highest poverty rates. In 2014, nearly one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers were poor, at the time of greatest brain development.
Children’s Defense Fund
Toxic Stress
ACE’s – Felitti and Anda, 1998 The most important scientific study on health that
most doctors don’t know about… Adverse childhood experiences are the most basic
cause of health risk behaviors, morbidity, disability, mortality, and healthcare costs.
Toxic Stress includes but goes beyond ACEs
What are ACEs?ABUSEphysicalsexualemotionalNEGLECTemotionalphysical
HOUSEHOLD DYSFUNCTIONdomestic violencesubstance abusemental illnesshousehold member incarceratedmarital separation/divorce of parents
Mitigating the Effects of ACEs
The presence of a stable, caring adult
School policies that are “trauma informed”3 Rs Regulate, Relate, Respond
Physical exercise
Resiliency trumps ACEs
Southland Video
http://www.ieanea.org/2015/05/27/southland-education-and-health-initiative-part-one-an-introduction/
Activities
Mental Health First Aid for Teachers Mindfulness for Teachers Parent University Creating Trauma-Informed Systems conference Aces 101 Health Assessment Dental Van
Intervention Works
Triple P Population Trial Prev Sci (2009) 10:1-12
Know Me, Know My Namehttp://www.ieanea.org/resources/know-me/
Paper Tigers trailer
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Paper Tigers Trailer
http://www.papertigersmovie.com/
“Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.”Bruce Perry, author
Questions
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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