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Category: Mental Health Care Support

Social Emotional Lessons

Social Emotional Learning for Elementary School Students

In the opening weeks of the 2024-25 school year, AUSD’s Student Services department partnered with Alameda Family Services to provide whole-class social emotional lessons for grades K-5. AUSD and AFS staff and therapists went into classrooms for 3 days of mini lessons focused on inclusivity, kindness, and being an ‘upstander’. AUSD Department of Student Services’ Cassie Ferguson, needed supplies for small arts and craft projects for students to create and take home or keep in the classroom as a reminder of the ideas and issues that were covered.

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Mini Grant for special needs students at AHS

Behavioral Incentives

Emma Li Elliott, Special Education Teacher at Alameda High School, requested a grant to support classroom behavioral incentives for her students with emotional disturbance. Students were given blue tickets throughout the week when they are on task, completing work, helping others, etc. These students require these behavior incentives because of the mental health challenges they face daily.

Ms. Elliot wrote: “Thank you for your generous grant that is funding the classroom incentive ticket system for my students with mental health challenges.

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AEF Support for Care Solace

AEF Support for Care Solace

For the fourth year in a row, the Alameda Education Foundation has provided financial support for another full school year of Care Solace for the District. Care Solace is a complimentary and confidential care coordination service that connects AUSD students, staff, and families in need with appropriate mental health care services. The wraparound service provides equitable access to care regardless of coverage, including private insurance, Medicaid, and sliding scale options for those without insurance.

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Care Solace Mental Health Care Support

AEF Helps Fund Mental Health Support for Students

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, but we don’t need a special month to tell us that our children are in crisis. Since 2017, rates of anxiety and depression among California’s children have shot up by 70% and one-third of California adolescents experienced serious psychological distress between 2019 and 2021, including a 20% increase in adolescent suicides.

But thanks to generous AEF donors, AEF is able to help provide vital support for our students,

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