TRAINING
YOUTH TRAININGS
Alcohol and Drug Prevention and Training
An overview of the effects of alcohol and specific drugs, current drug trends, effective interventions for adolescents, prevention principles, the addiction continuum, schoolwide interventions, classroom interventions, and individual interventions.
Mental Health 101
Through this training, STARS provides those working with children and adolescents the necessary tools to identify, refer and appropriately support students who are experiencing emotional, behavioral, developmental and mental health needs. Mental Health 101 is designed to provide resources to help the one in five children suffering from a mental health problem. Prevention and early intervention efforts, such as this, have been shown to improve school readiness, health status and academic achievement, and to reduce the need for more costly mental health treatment, grade retention, special education services and welfare supports.
MOVE2STAND (M2S)
MOVE2STAND is an interactive training program of STARS that challenges students to examine their attitudes toward bullying. This one-day youth summit creates empathy and helps young leaders understand how bullying impacts school climate and communities. Training of Trainers Model: In addition to the one-day youth summit, M2S also provides a leadership training geared toward school staff, administrators, coaches and school counselors. M2S provides participants with the resources and knowledge required to implement best practices in bullying prevention to positively impact their school climate.
Youth Engagement Summits
Summits provide students with tools and resources to effectively improve school climate and help them understand how their voices make a difference. The ultimate goal of these summits is to ensure safe and supportive learning environments to increase academic success.
SCHOOL-COMMUNITY TRAININGS
Alcohol and Drug Prevention and Training
An overview of the effects of alcohol and specific drugs, current drug trends, effective interventions for adolescents, prevention principles, the addiction continuum, schoolwide interventions, classroom interventions, and individual interventions.
Best Practices in Bullying Prevention: “Improving School Climate through Best Practices in Bullying Prevention”:
This training focuses on a review of evidence-based strategies and practices that have proved successful in assisting schools to effectively address bullying, harassment and intimidation. Participants will evaluate their bullying prevention implementation strategies and will be able to discuss, with colleagues, the evaluation of their strategies using the Bullying Prevention Implementation Assessment. Includes a review of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program principles.
Best Practices for Responding to Crisis at School
Topics include death, suicide and responding to grief.
Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR)
The social and emotional learning model proven to help students navigate barriers to learning and ultimately thrive through secondary school and into adulthood. This groundbreaking model has the proven ability to benefit every student in your school, and empower each teacher on your staff to follow their passion: helping kids.
Building Strong(er) Working Relationships
Helps adults focus on the importance of having crucial conversations with colleagues, parents and students in schools, community organizations or businesses. Participants will identify and manage relationship breakdowns, coordinate action, achieve business results, value differences, make effective requests, design new and lasting relationships, operate in a strengths-based leadership model, and create an emotionally intelligent work environment.
Classroom Meetings/Responsive Classrooms
Responsive Classrooms is a student-centered, social and emotional learning approach to teaching and discipline. It is composed of a set of research- and evidence-based practices designed to create safe, joyful and engaging classrooms and school communities for both students and teachers.
Connecting Schools, Families and Communities – Cultural Competency for School Systems
Lifelines
A Comprehensive Suicide Awareness and Responsiveness Program for Teens. This whole-school program is composed of three components: Lifelines: Prevention, Lifelines: Intervention and Lifelines: Postvention. This trilogy of programs is the only existing model of its kind available for teens. The complete Lifelines Trilogy is based on more than 20 years of suicide-in-youth research that indicates an informed community can help to prevent vulnerable teens from ending their lives.
Olweus Bulling Prevention Program (OBPP)
A program of Clemson University and Hazelden Education Publishing that STARS began implementing in 2003, OBPP is the most-researched and best-known bullying prevention program available today. OBPP is a whole-school program known to reduce bullying by 50 percent or more. Designed for grades K–12, OBPP is used at the school, classroom and individual levels with methods to reach out to parents and the community as well.
Restorative Practices
The Whole-School Change Program involves 11 Essential Elements, including affective statements, restorative questions, fair process, small impromptu conferences, proactive circles, responsive circles and restorative conferences. Staff teams, working in small professional learning groups, focus on understanding and using these elements.
Safe Dates
It is imperative to stop dating violence before it ever starts. This evidence-based program helps teens recognize the difference between caring, supportive relationships and controlling, manipulative or abusive relationships. It is during the critical preteen and teen years that young people begin to learn the skills needed to create and foster positive relationships. Safe Dates equips young people with the tools they need to develop these important life skills. Highly engaging and interactive, Safe Dates reflects the issues today’s teens face.
Strengthening Families Program
A nationally and internationally recognized parenting and family-strengthening program, SFP is an evidence-based family skills training program found to significantly reduce problem behaviors, delinquency, and alcohol and drug abuse in children and to improve social competencies and school performance. Child maltreatment also decreases as parents strengthen bonds with their children and learn more effective parenting skills.
Student Assistance Program 101
An overview of the best practices for successfully implementing a comprehensive student assistance program.
STARS Student Assistance Program Team Training
A two-day team training to help schools implement STARS’ evidenced-based Student Assistance Program.
Understanding Bullying Prevention Through the Lens of Cultural Competence
Understanding and appreciating the richness of diversity and cultural backgrounds is key in promoting civil discourse in schools and the workplace. In this session, participants will explore cultural competency and diversity in terms of culture, age, gender, sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, socio-economic status and language as it relates to best practices in fostering kindness and empathy and reducing bullying and harassment.
