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Download full textKristin Geiser; Victoria Ren; Derric Heck; Albert Lowe – John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2023
In the fall of 2021, Redwood City School District (RCSD) placed a full-time, district-employed mental health counselor in each of its twelve schools in order to bolster district capacity to support student mental health and wellbeing. Stanford's John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities (Gardner Center) conducted a Year 1…
Descriptors: School Districts, Mental Health, School Health Services, Well Being
Kristin Geiser; Victoria Ren; Derric Heck; Albert Lowe – John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2023
As the nation transitions from responding to the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to navigating its ongoing impact on youth and their communities, K-12 students continue to experience mental health and wellbeing challenges. In the fall of 2021, Redwood City School District (RCSD) placed a full-time, district-employed mental health counselor in each…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Mental Health, Mental Health Programs, Counseling Services
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Universal screening for mental health in preschools provides the opportunity for early identification and early intervention, but guidance regarding which informants to use is needed. Preschoolers' (N = 535) parent and teacher reports across two screening forms were analyzed to determine similarities and discrepancies for classification results…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Preschools, Early Intervention, Outcomes of Education
Sarah Dovi Mast – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The current study explored the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on perceived work-related stress and coping strategies among K-5 public school teachers in the state of California. A phenomenological approach was used to examine the unique experience of public-school teachers during the 2020-2021 pandemic school year. Criterion sampling included…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Psychological Patterns, Coping, Public School Teachers
Abigail Van Klompenberg – Visions of Research in Music Education, 2023
The purpose of this collective case study was to examine elementary music teachers' mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research questions were: 1) What factors influenced music teachers' mental health and well-being during COVID-19; 2) How did music teachers support their own mental health and well-being during…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Mental Health, Trauma, COVID-19
Cohen, Shana R.; Wishard Guerra, Alison; Molgaard, Monica R.; Miguel, Jessica – AERA Open, 2022
To understand how parents adapted to virtual learning expectations during the initial COVID-19 school closures in spring 2020, this study investigated families' daily activities, including parents' emotions and their appraisals of the value of daily activities across two timepoints. Thirty-two parent-child dyads (Mean child age = 78 months, 50%…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Class, Mental Health
Julien Lafortune; Laura Hill; Niu Gao; Joseph Herrera; Emmanuel Prunty; Darriya Starr; Bruce Fuller; Julian Betts; Karna Malaviya; Jonathan Isler – Grantee Submission, 2023
To address lingering pressures in the aftermath of the pandemic, California public schools received record funding, largely bolstered by nearly $60 billion in federal and state one-time stimulus funds. This report takes a comprehensive look at the allocation and uses of these federal and state educational recovery funds in California.
Descriptors: Expenditures, State Aid, Federal Aid, Pandemics
Estes, Elizabeth; Davis, Jeff; Shilton, Adrienne; Stoner-Mertz, Christine; Funk, Michael; Eisenberg, Lisa; Weller, Teneh; Knecht, Richard S.; Kelley, Veronica; Kain, Lara; Peck, Jennifer; Rosario, Aleah; Lombardo, Michael; Kimner, Hayin; Jacobs, Melissa; Dickey, Amanda; Epstein, Ken; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Alcala, Lupita; Caparas, Ruthie; Coley, Aressa; Justus, Marianne; Willis, Jason; Larsen, Karen – WestEd, 2022
This field guide is a first step by a collaborative of California child-serving education, health, and social service experts and leaders to further California's current efforts toward one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving system. The guide includes guidance for both local education agencies (LEAs) and state leaders,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Guides, School Districts, Public Officials
Eisenhower, Abbey; Taylor, Heather; Baker, Bruce L. – School Psychology Review, 2016
Starting Strong in Kindergarten (Starting Strong) is a school-based indicated prevention targeting behavior problems, student-teacher relationships, and parent-school connectedness for children with or at risk for disruptive behavior problems during the transition to kindergarten. By use of a block-randomized, controlled trial to test program…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Prevention, Transitional Programs, Behavior Problems
Children Now, 2022
Young people across California are leading the way forward socially, culturally, and politically. They are organizing for racial justice, learning and working and caring for family members during a pandemic, and voting in record numbers. The past two years with the COVID-19 pandemic has been hardest on kids, particularly children of color, in…
Descriptors: Well Being, Child Health, Health Insurance, Accountability
Children Now, 2018
Lack of progress for improving the lives of kids is unacceptable. All children need stability and a path to opportunity. This is true for nearly half of California's children who live in low-income families, where caregivers struggle to afford the quality support and services they need for their kids. This is also true for the approximately…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
Cavagnaro, Elizabeth; Mindnich, Jessica Dalesandro; Arac, Derya; Roaseau, Ashley – Children Now, 2014
There is strong consensus in California and in the country around the notions of equal opportunity for all children, and giving kids a chance of having it better than their parents. The reality in California is that most families lack the means and resources to provide their children with the basic building blocks of a productive life in the 21st…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, At Risk Students, Academic Achievement
PDF pending restorationHazlett, Shirley Holder – 1983
The Growing Up Healthy Program was developed in the San Francisco Unified School District during the 1976-1977 school year, and by 1983, the year of this publication, was being used in more than 200 California school districts. Program goals are to encourage kindergarten children to develop good health habits; to improve compliance with legal…
Descriptors: Child Health, Curriculum Guides, Dental Health, Environmental Education
