COA Awareness Week is coming up in February and we will be focusing on mindfulness tools and its restorative impact. Can anyone provide exercises/programs available for schools, afterschool activities, or in the community designed for kids/teens. We wish to create a healthy array of resourcesto make available during the week.
Thank you for anything you can provide.
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I am available to teach improv workshops to all ages and teachers. I specialize in creating fun, spontaneity and learning. More can be found at http://spolingamesonline.org. A free resource for teachers to better understand how to run games in the classroom with examples of games to play.
I am willing to mentor, advise and be available for anyone interested in this.
Also I have a book written for children on the issue of neglect and self-esteem that has a teaching companion with it. The King of Average https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GF5QWGO
More info at my personal site http://www.gary-schwartz.com
The Crim Fitness Foundation (http://crim.org/) is implementing the following programs in the Flint, Michigan Elementary Schools as a means to help mitigate and address the adverse effects of lead poisoning in the children of that community:
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Check out what Little Flower Yoga offers. I attended a training with one of their founders and it was great! Great activity book, flashcards, etc
Ambassadors of Compassion is a proven Teen program for middle school and High School Teens. It includes over 80 Call to action steps and community service projects listed in their LIFE and RISE JOURNALS .
Students take an online Resiliency Inventory prior to their 17 week journey guided by trained contributing business partners employees. (AOC Coaches)
The program has been designed to cultivate 32 resiliency areas, a foundation in becoming responsibile, life skills, and value driven young people.
I'ts not an accident when you review the post Resiliency Inventory that the metrics reveal significant changes in personal identity and purpose driven behaviors for high risk traumatized and general education youth.
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The AOC leadership program is being implemented before during and after school
New football / sports program Lombardi Leadership Edition
I work for Mind Body Awareness Project, which facilitates mindfulness and social emotional learning groups for teens in juvenile hall and alternative high schools throughout the Bay Area. We also provide trainings.
Mindful Schools in another local org that trains facilitators to provide mindfulness tools and education within schools.
Mindful Life Project is a Richmond organization that leads mindfulness groups in schools for elementary and middle school aged youth throughout Richmond.
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Mary Beth Colliins posted:COA Awareness Week is coming up in February and we will be focusing on mindfulness tools and its restorative impact. Can anyone provide exercises/programs available for schools, afterschool activities, or in the community designed for kids/teens. We wish to create a healthy array of resourcesto make available during the week.
Thank you for anything you can provide.
I lead the REACH Program in Stewartville, MN and did 6 months of training with Mayo Clinic Dr. Sood's Resilient Living Program stressfree.org The pillars of this program focus on gratitude, compassion, acceptance, meaning, forgiveness, celebration, kind attention, joyful attention, and relationships. I have modified these to use with students in grades 7-12, but have used them with students as young as 3rd grade. These pillars really all go together. Take a look at the REACH Stewartville page and feel free to use anything you see there. This page is open to the public, so you do not need to be a member of FB to view it. www.facebook.com/reachstewartville
Just on Facebook last night, there was a clip on MEDITATION sessions INSTEAD of punishment for kids who act out in school. It looked like a "beautiful thing!" Instead of worksheets, isolation, out of school suspensions or in-school suspensions, these kids go to a room and someone conducts mindfulness meditation. I briefly read it and thought it sounded like a positive tool to try instead of always doing what we've always done before.
Thank you all for your responses. I will begin to start to work on pulling these together in some organized fashion. I definitely agree that schools need to begin to incorporate these practices. I would love to see all levels of schools - ele/mid/high- offer afterschool programs to all kids that incorporate yoga and mindfulness. I've actually heard of a peer to peer group that begins its support sessions with yoga before the discussion begins. I too LOVE the idea of yoga instead of detention....as we are obviously learning that detention alone isn't working.
Margery Arnold posted:
COA Awareness Week is a national â and international â awareness campaign to break the painful silence and offer hope to the vulnerable children and teenagers impacted by parents who are struggling with addiction. This is a weighted ACE - as Rob Anda has commented " If a child grows up with addiction, that is probably not the only risk factor in the home." 1 in 7 individuals will experience a substance use disorder in the U.S. and many are parents. So we take some time to provide tools to help communities educate professionals and parents to the issues at hand, and how to help. This year's theme is "Help is Waiting" - to the children/teens in need and for adults who wish to learn how to best offer support.
It was from a FB post so I just screen shot it, but you could look up Joyful Courage on FB. 
