The Young and the Wellness in BVSD

Jordan interviews high school students anonymously on their perspectives regarding substance use and getting support.

School MHA, Suzy Kennedy and District Student Support Services and Health and Wellness Coordinators Katie McGee and Jordan Goto discuss key takeaways from the book “The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt”. We discuss ways schools and families can align actions and messaging around media use.

Susan Caso, Licensed Therapist and Author of “The Parent-Teen Connection: How to Build Lifelong Family Relationships” shares some key takeaways from her book about the ways we can build positive relationships with our children.

Nurse Kelli at Broomfield High School has lots of experience talking with students about substance use and prevention. She outlines the importance of keeping the conversation going with youth about alcohol use, since it is still the number one substance consumed by people under-age.

We talk with Mikayla Braukhoff (she/her), a Mental Health Advocate for Centaurus High School. While she currently works with adolescents, her previous years of experience included working with pre-school aged children through elementary. She outlines the importance, and examples of communicating with younger children about alcohol use and setting clear boundaries and expectations. 

McKinney-Vento is a resource open to BVSD families struggling with housing. The support doesn't stop there, our Program Specialists Ema Lyman and Adriana Favila Humara discuss the variety of support and resources out there for families, and how to support the work within the community.

 

Fairview Senior, Sydney Wu, Fairview Junior Bella Chang and Title IX Coordinator Liz Francis join us to discuss their work with Title IX education, and their call to the community to help create spaces of belonging and cultures of consent within our schools and community.

 

Trigger warning:

Mentions of: "sexual assault",  “Safety”, “Reporting”, “Abuse”, discrimination

Trigger warning: Mental Health needs, substance use, stress, overdose, mention of suicide

 

Laura Stack, founder of Johnnysambassadors.org, joins us to talk about High THC Marijuana, as a parent. Laura shares her insight on high THC products and what parents can do with their kiddos today to start talking about their perceptions of substance use.

Rachel Freeman from the Tobacco Education Prevention Partnership (TEPP) talks about “All Things Vaping” from data, to education and talking to young people, to legislation and safe disposal of toxic vape pens.

We hear what BVSD is doing to provide life-saving medications to all schools. We also sit down with Avani Dilger to hear the facts of Fentanyl, and what we as adults can do to help our youth.