Parents and caregivers want their children to be happy, healthy, and productive. A focus on health and safety is important for all children as they grow up. Healthy children start to learn skills when they are born. These skills will help them in school and when they are adults.
Teachers can’t do it all! But, sometimes common problems in the classroom and hallways usually extend beyond “bad behavior” and could be indicators of certain health issues. Resolving health issues in school can have a positive impact on attendance and focus during the school day.
Health staff play a pivotal role in a growing child’s life. Doctors, nurses, health educators, and medical support staff all communicate important information to children and families related to physical and mental health and well-being.
Policies and laws help shape school health in practice. As research continues to show how health affects education and vice versa, programs to promote school health are growing. Anyone can be an advocate - students, families, educators, and community members.
The Healthy and Ready to Learn Resource and Training Center provides free trainings to equip all adults in the lives of children with the knowledge and skills to promote strong attendance, community health, and training sensitivity.
For 36 years Children's Health Fund has provided high quality clinical services to children in some of the most underserved communities in the country. The Healthy and Ready to Learn initiative is the next step.
Healthy & Ready to Learn offers a series of professional development trainings to educators and school staff at no cost. These trainings are designed to promote a positive and connected school environment.
Healthy and Ready to Learn aims to fulfill the role of school climate partner, focusing on trauma-sensitivity and healing with an anti-racism lens to increase school and community capacity to help students succeed academically, stay healthy, feel safe and empowered by their environments, and have a positive outlook on the future. Our hope is that building healing centered schools and helping build positive and trauma-sensitive supports for students and families, will increase student’s readiness and availability to learn, increase resilience, and promote wellbeing across both their life course and academic careers.
To this aim, we are offering a series of professional development opportunities, designed to provide a framework for implementing best practices into your schools. These workshops have been designed to build off one another, but we do not require that you take them in linear order.
We are happy to work with you to determine which workshops best meet the needs of your school. Learn more about our training options below and join us either in-person or online to learn more about each of these topics! For educators in New York State, all of our trainings are Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) eligible.
We provide training in the following ways:
This professional development training introduces the effects of trauma on students and school-wide strategies that can be implemented. By the end of this session participants will be able to...
Now that you know what trauma is, how do you take that information and start incorporating it into your school/team practice. This session is a deep-dive into the ways that we can care for ourselves and our teams as a way of practicing trauma-sensitivity and self-awareness. By the end of this session participants will be able to...
This workshop will teach participants how to be conscious of the ways that we talk about students that can impact and limit our work and how we relate to students and families. We will explore how to re-frame destructive narratives into tools for empowerment. By the end of this session participants will be able to...
In this workshop participants will practice using strengths-based language to help facilitate difficult conversations, such as health referrals, the impact of attendance on academic progress, or stress at home. By the end of this session participants will be able to...
Focus on the caregiver is an essential component of a healing-centered model, especially as we consider the compounded impact vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue can have on our school staff. This session will deep-dive into mindfulness strategies that can be used both for self-care and with students and families. We will share additional resources that you can use in carrying out your work. By the end of this session participants will be able to...
This workshop provides a comprehensive toolkit for school staff to utilize in referring families to health services available in the community via methods that increase referral follow-through.
This interactive workshop allows participants to explore resource lists available online and through local health departments, begin mapping resources in their community, and practice referring families to local health services.
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
This workshop will teach participants all about play, its significance in development, when it is appropriate, and how to reinforce it in settings for learning and, importantly, in the home. This session will explore awareness of social-emotional learning, things to look out for, and ways to build play into the child’s routine. By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
Similar to the elementary level training, this professional development will discuss ways trauma affects the body, brain, and behavior in children ages 0-5. At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
Educators & parents play a critical role in creating a culture of positive attendance to jumpstart educational learning. Using graphics, we explore the importance of emphasizing and monitoring attendance during early childhood and its impact on socioemotional and cognitive learning. At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
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