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Get Teens Talking: A Hands-On Approach To Sel Through The Arts, Gina H. Moore, Gina H. Moore

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Explore the power of art to give tweens and teens a vehicle for healthy self-expression and life skills that can take them from risk to resilience. Interact and connect in this hands-on session that demonstrates engaging activities to create a sense of community within groups. Exercise your creativity and leave with unique artwork and a written guide to facilitate the activities in your programs.

Raise Them Up! 5 Mindful Ways To Shift The Climate Of Your Classroom/Program/School, Jeffrey L. Jordan, Julia Gabor

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Do your social, emotional (SEL), and character education programs need a refresh? Join this session and learn exciting approaches and hands-on activities in areas of mindfulness, healthy behaviors, community engagement and digital and social consciousness. This session will provide a new approach to the development of 21st century skills with grit and resilience.

The Devil Is In Your Closet: 48 Square Feet Can Change Everything, Tracey G. Keim

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Using a "real" grocery list, cash money, and an unexpected situation, attendees put themselves in the shoes (or socks) of the children-at-risk and families who need support in a hands on, solution centered workshop. Workshop participants walk away with culturally relevant materials that will allow them to find funding for a 6'x8' corner of hope--at little or no cash cost. But that makes all the difference in the world.

Integrating Social, Emotional, And Academic Learning (S.E.A.L.) Into School Culture: It Starts With All Of The Adults, Joelle Hood

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

In this engaging session, Dr. Joelle Hood will demonstrate how SEL needs to be modeled from all adults and integrated into all areas of the school site and district. She will share how she has brought this deep dive learning into Executive Cabinets and District Management Retreats, into multi-day sessions with teachers and counselors, and into an innovative and interactive online course to empower educators with the opportunity to strengthen their own social-emotional intelligence, well-being and resilience, and deepen their understanding of WHY these skills are so important to students and staff. Participants will engage in discussions and activities that …

Bully, Bullies And Bullying: Pejorative Terminology, Alternative Descriptors, And Ethics-Based Interventions, Tom Clees, Todd J. Stephens

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This presentation will present historical perspectives on the use of person-first terminology as related to the impact of contemporary pejorative terminology, including the terms associated with "bullying." Functional alternatives in assessing problematic behaviors will follow. Finally, ethics-based (least intrusive) social skills and behavioral interventions will be exemplified.

Hard Conversations, Healthy Conversations: How To Respond When Tragedy Strikes, Elizabeth Marston, Samuel Marion

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

How do we talk to children and students about tragedy? How do we support families faced with a health crisis or unexpected death? This presentation will discuss the challenges of dealing with tragic circumstances and how we can best support children, students, and their families in a way to promote emotional health.

Building An Ecosystem Of Support: An Evaluation Of North Dakota’S Community School Programs, Mckenzie Haines, Shelby Hubach, Jeanette Joyce, Betty Li Simpson, Lucy K. Fredericks, Lyndsi Engstrom, Nathan C. Anderson

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Community school programs respond to students’ nonacademic needs so that they can focus on their learning. This session highlights a collaboration of organizations across North Dakota as they implement two community school programs. A shared evaluation plan supports the implementation of the two programs and will provide data to improve services provided to students.

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Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• WCHP faculty member receives Morton B. Duggan Distinguished Service Award
• MHA students receive Foster G. McGaw Graduate Student Scholarship
• How a goat named Moonpie is helping special needs students to socialize
• Georgia Southern to host free mini-conference for special education professionals, registration limited to 100

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College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• Georgia Southern to host free mini-conference for special education professionals, registration limited to 100
• Free screening of 'Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence' on April 9 on Armstrong Campus, open to the public
• How a goat named Moonpie is helping special needs students to socialize
• Turning education into action
• Like mother like daughter, education major inspired to teach others

Rockets: Reaching Our Community Through Kindness, Education, Togetherness And Stem – A Sustainable Communities Project In Sumter County, Georgia, Crystal Perry

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This poster session highlights the ROCKETS program implemented in Sumter County Schools through UGA Extension. Through the ROCKETS Project in-school sessions, youth with disabilities are provided additional opportunities to belong to a larger group of youth through the Georgia 4-H Program. The ROCKETS Project focuses on Agricultural literacy and STEM education as content areas to cultivate, recruit and graduate the next generation of a highly-skilled diverse workforce.

The Impact Of A Heroism-Themed Outreach With Title I Summer Program Students, Nathan Adams, Lori Fernald, Conway Saylor, Mike Akers

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Is it possible to teach students about heroism? This presentation will examine how a five-session intervention influenced at-risk students’ understanding of a hero. Outcomes from the study may be of interest to educators, administrators, and counselors who encourage students to find positive role models in the community.

The Impact Of Social Climate On Self-Identity, Substance Use, And Mental Health Among Lgbtq+ College Students, Laura Agnich, Liyah C. Morgan

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Substance abuse is an unfortunate but commonly used escape for many LGBT youth as they lack resources to help address anxiety and trauma. When faced with a constant state of fear of violence and identity concealment many turn to drugs or suicide. This session will provide information on addressing LGBT youth substance abuse and creating an inclusive campus climate.

Supporting High School Students To Pursue A Career In Nursing, Linda Murray, Nina Trocky

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This poster presentation will provide a visual of the model developed for use with high school and community college youth at risk to enhance educational degree completion and transition to the registered nurse career.

Culturally Responsive Strategies For Effective Teaching, Dr. Regina C. Watts Lewis, Elizabeth K. Arnold

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Our proposal presents information regarding beliefs about diversity, implicit bias, ESSA, equality, equity, cultural disconnect, and culturally responsive teaching strategies. Our objective is to provide participants with research-based strategies and tools, knowledge, and understanding of culturally responsive strategies designed to raise the bar and close the gap for underserved student groups as identified in the ESSA.

The Domino Effect: Lessons From The Prison Walls, Trent Grundmeyer, Jamie Ross

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This presentation is designed to provide insight to those who serve at-risk populations. Participants will explore the risk factors and statistics around at-risk youth. Furthermore, participants will have the opportunity to hear first-hand from an incarcerated women who can testify to successful and unsuccessful interventions adults attempted to help her with. She is both a victim and success story that is the face of how education can indeed make a difference for kids.

After successful completion of this course students will be able to:

1. Build empathy for students who do not have support from parents.
2. Understand why attendance is often …

Differentiated Instruction That Works For “At Risk” Students: Reaching And Meeting The Need, Henry Tellis

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Are you looking for differentiated instructional strategies that reach every student? Come hear how I have learned to meet the learning styles of students in my classroom. This session will provide research-based strategies on how to effectively implement center-based instruction and practical strategies to use in a risk school classroom. Learn how to reach and meet the needs of learners.

4-H Tech Changemakers Project: Empowering Teens & Serving Rural Communities, Kasey Bozeman

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

With over 23.4 million people lacking broadband internet access in the U.S, families and communities demonstrate struggles. Feeling secure and knowledgeable enough to adopt and use the technology is another challenge. Through the 4-H Tech Changemakers project, youth and adult teams taught digital literacy and safety skills to 80 communities across America. This session will share how to implement a similar program in your community.

Nurturing The Culture To Ensure Success For All, Steven W. Edwards

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

With the constant pressure of high stakes testing and new achievement standards the culture of a school can be compromised. This session will focus on specific strategies and techniques that can be implemented to keep the child first while at the same time enhancing student academic achievement. Participants will walk away with ideas that they can immediately implement in their classrooms and schools.

What’S In A Name? How The Language Of Mental Health Diagnoses Affects The Ability To Heal, Elizabeth Marston, Samuel Marion

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

When a person receives a mental health diagnosis, they are often started down a path of receiving help, but also of receiving stigma. This presentation will discuss how language around a diagnosis can affect a child’s sense of self as well as either help or hurt a student’s ability to manage and heal.

A Girl Named Sue: A Child's Journey From Complex Trauma To Hope, Healing & Recovery, Jamie Like Ms.

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Audience would include any school staff, counselors, social workers, parents and community members. Many children who experience complex trauma struggle emotionally, physically and behaviorally. In this session, participants will learn to never underestimate the impact they can make in the life of a child, that damage from childhood trauma can be mitigated and that relationships, relationships, relationships are the key to everything!

Pornography: Adolescent Brain Development & Addiction, William K. Canady

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This presentation will explain the historical development of pornography. It will highlight three segments: 1- Porn’s impact on brain development of reward pathways, ultimately increasing the appetite for more porn. 2- Porn can be a false substitute for real intimacy, resulting in decreased sexual satisfaction with a real person and increased verbal and physical aggression. 3- Porn promotes sex trafficking, promotes multiple sex partners and reduced STD prevention.

Nurturing The Culture To Ensure Success For All, Steven Edwards

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

With the constant pressure of high stakes testing and new achievement standards the culture of a school can be compromised. This session will focus on specific strategies and techniques that can be implemented to keep the child first while at the same time enhancing student academic achievement. Participants will walk away with ideas that they can immediately implement in their classrooms and schools.

Grief And Loss: Shedding Light On Our Youth, Kiana Battle

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Highlight the importance of trauma- informed practice for youth impacted by grief and loss. Highlight the intricate stages of adolescences and the impact grief and loss has on this stage of development. Highlight the importance of grief counseling groups for adolescents in public schools.

Willowcreek Middle School Alternative Program: Successfully Working Through Trauma, Debra B. Ekdahl 6061

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Willowcreek Middle School in Portage Indiana is not your typical alternative school. We offer trauma informed practices in place of student expulsions. A safe structured environment, reduced class time, academic strategies, mindfulness, yoga, and community service, all help to provide the educational and social/emotional support necessary to help students at risk reach their potential and eventually transition back to the traditional classroom.

Auxiliary News Online, Georgia Southern University

Auxiliary Services News Online

• Hours of Operation for Spring Break 2020

Message From The President, Georgia Southern University

Messages from the President

• AVP for Inclusive Excellence
• Director of Athletics
• Coronavirus
• Georgia Southern Day at the Capitol
• Undergraduate Research Day
• Performance Excellence Employee Award and Recognition program
• Staff professional development Conference
• Spring Commencement Ceremonies
• Strategic Enrollment Plan
• Alecia Breen

Auxiliary News Online, Georgia Southern University

Auxiliary Services (2013-2021)

• Hours of Operation for Spring Break 2020

Conference Program 2020, National Youth-At-Risk Conference Savannah

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Conference Program

The Socio-Economic Impact Of Hiv/Aids In Bangladesh: The Role Of Public Administration In Response To Hiv/Aids, Shakeel Ahmed Ibne Mahmood

Southern Business Review (Archived)

As the Human Immuno- Deficiency Virus, the cause of AIDS, continues to spread in many parts of the world, women are now said to constitute an increasingly large proportion of those infected worldwide. This statistic has mainly been attributed to the fact that until lately, women did not have an independent method of protection by which they could help shield themselves from both pregnancy and infection of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV.

Shakeel Ahmed lbne Mahmood is senior administrative officer, ICDDR, B-lnternational Center for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Currently, he is enrolled in the University of Maine's MPA …