School Climate Resources
Professional Development at RIU 6
School Climate flyer for professional development customized for your school.
3/27/26 Why is Building Relationships and Trauma-Informed Best Practices So Important?
Announcement of School Climate and Well-Being🎉🎉
The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) has updated its terminology regarding student support initiatives. What was previously referred to as Social Emotional Wellness (SEW) will now be encompassed under the broader category of School Climate and Well-Being.
This shift reflects PDE’s effort to bring together both safety and social emotional wellness into one unified area, recognizing the important connection between a safe environment and student well-being.
Please use the School Climate and Well-Being link moving forward.
Resources on Grief from PBS
NEW EDUCATOR RESOURCE!
The new Learning Grief website includes the full collection of videos and instructional materials. Select resources area also included on the Learning Grief collection on PBS LearningMedia. This collection on PBS LearningMedia includes select content from Learning Grief as well as supplemental resources that offer discussion prompts for professional development trainings, handouts for adults new to this topic, as well as activities for students to engage in this space. We would be happy to share this resource in any upcoming training or network groups you’re facilitating this year.
Along with Learning Grief we also have some other recently added content to PBS LearningMedia:
- CIVICS: Voting Basics [videos]
- ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: Healing the Red Mo [videos], Carmen’s Eco-Farm Adventure [game], WPSU Science [website collection]
- HISTORY: Past PA [videos]
CASEL
The “C” in CASEL stands for “Collaborative”: It’s both who we are and how we work. We’ve formed a community—spanning classrooms to statehouses—to make social and emotional learning (SEL) part of a high-quality and equitable education for all. Here is the link to CASEL
Network of Care
Free platform: Network of Care provides a comprehensive information solution for consumers and other stakeholders at the local, state and national level in the health and human services arena.
Kooth
https://www.kooth.com/Kooth has partnered with the State of Pennsylvania to provide no-cost, secure, and confidential mental health support for 11-18 year olds statewide.
Source of Strength
Source of Strength
Sources of Strength is an evidence-based program that involves peer leaders to enhance protective factors associated with reducing suicide at the school population level by engaging youth as peer leaders and school staff as adult allies. OMHSAS has provided this program for free for PA schools through a grant where Youth Move provides the training and a stipend for messaging campaign materials and training.
Here is the link: https://youthmovepa.wildapricot.org/Sources-of-Strength
Training would be dependent on the individual school. YouthMove will do an MOU. They can contact ympa@youthmovepa.org to set that up and have the initial conversation.
