Date: Wednesday, October 18
Time: 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. (PT) / 1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. (ET)
Join the California Center for School Climate (CCSC), CalSCHLS, and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to discover effective wellness strategies and tools that help educators, education leaders, and mental health professionals increase life satisfaction for themselves and their communities. This webinar will provide an overview of resources that participants can use to support students or themselves, including a wide range of tools to support physical, emotional, and mental well-being in a variety of formats.
Who Will Benefit
- K-12 school district leaders and staff
- Teacher leaders
- Behavior and Intervention Specialists
- Mental health professionals
- County office of education coordinators
- School, district, and county Office Evaluation and Research staff
- Other partnering agencies
Presenters
Laura Buckner is a Technical Assistance Specialist with Resilient and Healthy Schools and Communities working to help education leaders improve systems to address whole-person and whole-community needs. She translates research into practice and supports the implementation of evidence-based practices. Buckner holds a joint MBA/MA in educational leadership from Mills College in Oakland, California.
Michael Furlong, PhD is a researcher and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of School Psychology at the UCSB. He received the 2022 School Mental Health Research Award and provides consultation and support to the California Department of Education and WestEd for the California Healthy Kids Survey. Furlong coedited the Handbook of Positive Psychology in Schools and collaborates on Project Covitality.
Erin Dowdy, PhD is a professor in the Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology department at UCSB. Dowdy is a licensed psychologist and a nationally certified school psychologist. Her scholarship has focused on universal assessment for social and emotional health and risk. She also focuses on equitable screening practices.
Tom Hanson serves as a Senior Advisor for the CCSC, Director of CalSCHLS, and Senior Managing Director at WestEd. Hanson has extensive experience in developing and validating survey instruments designed to measure school climate and other outcomes. He has served as a principal investigator of multiple large-scale randomized controlled trials and lead methodologist for studies examining the impacts of education interventions.