Mental Health Matters
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Course 5267
Educators understand the ways mental health challenges can impact student wellness, and want to learn how to provide the support students need so they can focus and flourish. In this course, educators will celebrate students’ stories of successfully navigating mental illness and will investigate how to address the stigma associated with it. Pick a PreK, elementary, middle, high school, or educator pathway, then create a “mental health moonshot,” your opportunity to dream big and share ideas for making mental health a priority.
Discover ways to boost engagement with research-based, actionable strategies like movement, meditation, and mindfulness. Explore how issues of identity, disordered eating, suicide, gun violence, social media, and racism affect student mental health and how technology brings support to “our fingertips.” End the course on a hopeful, high-note as you grow in your understanding for supporting students so they can be happy and healthy.

What you will learn:
Goals and Objectives of this Course:
- Use prompts about student mental health, to describe assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, including how the information relates to professional education practice and growth.
- Design a “mental health moonshot” aspirational plan that makes student mental health a priority.
- Collaborate with a colleague to create a presentation discussing student mental health challenges.
- Implement movement, meditation, and mindfulness strategies to increase student mental health.
- Challenge the status quo by creating an action plan designed to stop the stigma of student mental illness.

Graduate-Level Continuing Education Course for Teachers
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