1. Get Your School Healthy and Ready to Learn!
Emanuela Acquafredda, MPH
Jennifer Pruitt

2. Presenter Disclosures
Presenters: Emanuela Acquafredda and Jennifer Pruitt
(1) The following personal financial relationships with commercial interests relevant to this presentation existed during the past 12 months:
No relationships to disclose

3. Children’s Health Fund

4. Intervene on Health Barriers to Learning
Hearing Problems
Vision Problems
Asthma
Dental Pain
Hunger
Behavioral Health

5. Healthy and Ready to Learn School-based Program
School-based model – embedded in the school
Full-time site manager
Full-time mental health clinician
Healthy and Ready to Learn Team

6. Our Pilot Elementary Schools
Healthy and Ready to Learn School-Based Programs
PS 36 - The Margaret Douglas School (West Harlem, Manhattan)
PS 49 – Willis Avenue School (Mott Haven, South Bronx)
Enrollment: 427 Poverty*: 82% Chronic Absence: 43% STH: ~18.8%
Enrollment: 662 Poverty*: 92% Chronic Absence: 28% STH: ~28.4%
STH - Students in Temporary Housing
*As defined by NYC Department of Education SY

7. Health Barriers to Learning
Focus Areas
Health Barriers to Learning
Trauma
Sensitivity
Attendance
Educator, Parent, Health Staff, and Advocate Engagement

8. 3-Tiered Intervention Highest need Identified need Schoolwide
Level of intervention

9. Our Approach Culturally Relevant Data-driven Strengths-Based
Family Centered
Love & Support
Love and Support
Data-driven/Continuous Improvement
Cultural Relevance
Restorative Justice
Trauma-informed
Collaborative
Collaborative
Trauma-
informed
Restorative Justice

10. Healthy and Ready to Learn Resource and Training Center
School-based programs
Online Resource and Training Center
Training
Through this model we are learning a lot to develop opportunities
Figuring out how to address the needs in a different way.
Developing materials, protocols and share
Technical Assistance
Full-time site manager
Full-time mental health clinician

11. Healthy and Ready to Learn Resource and Training Center
School-based programs
Online Resource and Training Center
Training
Through this model we are learning a lot to develop opportuinities
Figuring out how to address the needs in a different way.
Developing materials, protocols and share
Technical Assistance
Full-time site manager
Full-time mental health clinician

12. Our Technical Assistance Schools
Mott Haven, South Bronx
Partnership with United Way/ReadNYC from

13. Our Technical Assistance Schools
Healthy and Ready to Learn Technical Assistance Schools
PS 179
Enrollment: Poverty*: 88.4% Chronic Absence: 30% STH: ~23.1%
PS Young Leaders Elementary School
Enrollment: 237 Poverty*: 90.3% Chronic Absence: 31% STH: ~42.3%
PS 43 - Jonas Bronck
Enrollment: 470 Poverty*: 89.3% Chronic Absence: 31% STH: ~21.7%
PS 30 - Wilton
Enrollment: 590 Poverty*: 91.8% Chronic Absence: 40% STH: ~25.6% SY
*As defined by NYC Department of Education

14. Technical Assistance Key Components
Love and Support
Data-driven/Continuous Improvement
Cultural Relevance
Restorative Justice
Trauma-informed
Collaborative 14

15. Technical Assistance Key Components
Principal Buy-in 1
HRL
Liaison 2
Needs and Assets Assessment
School Team Formation 3
Goal Setting 4
Monitoring and Evaluation
Training and Resources 5

16. 1 16 Love and Support Data-driven/Continuous Improvement
Cultural Relevance
Restorative Justice
Trauma-informed
Collaborative 16

17. Principal Buy-in United Way/ReadNYC Partnership Training Demonstration
Signed Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)

18. 2 18 Love and Support Data-driven/Continuous Improvement
Cultural Relevance
Restorative Justice
Trauma-informed
Collaborative 18

19. Needs and Assets Assessment
Survey based on HRL themes
Health Barriers to Learning
Trauma
Sensitivity
Attendance
Educator, Parent, Health Staff, and Advocate Engagement

20. Creating the Survey Define levels of school activities
Design questions based on levels
Match questions with resources
Create process maps
Developed process maps to define
questions which indicate stage
linked each stage with resources to help move to next stage
*attendance one is coolest looking

21. Process Mapping
Developed process maps to define questions which indicate stage
linked each stage with resources to help move to next stage
*attendance one is coolest looking

22. Get Your School Healthy and Ready to Learn Survey

23. Take the Survey!

24. Activity Visit www.hrl.nyc using your smartphone, tablet, or laptop
Navigate to our “Interactive
Tools” page
Find “Get Your School Healthy
and Ready to Learn” box and click “Get Started” 1 2 3

25. Assets and Areas of Opportunity
School Plans
Assets and Areas of Opportunity

26. 3 26 Love and Support Data-driven/Continuous Improvement
Cultural Relevance
Restorative Justice
Trauma-informed
Collaborative 26

27. School Team Formation
At least 3 individuals to implement HRL themes and programming into schools
Guidance Counselor, Parent Coordinator, PTA President, After School Director, Community School Director, School Nurse

28. 4 28 Love and Support Data-driven/Continuous Improvement
Cultural Relevance
Restorative Justice
Trauma-informed
Collaborative 28

29. Goals for each HRL Theme
Goal Setting
Goals for each HRL Theme
Year 3 Year Year 1

30. Focus on activities across 3-tiers
Goal Setting
Focus on activities across 3-tiers
Highest
need
Identified need
Schoolwide

31. Health Barriers to Learning
Goal Setting
Health Barriers to Learning
Case Management
On-site health services
Student, Parent, and Staff Workshop Series on Health Barriers to Learning
By the end of the school year, PS 179 will improve the knowledge of students, parents, and teachers about health barriers to learning

32. 5 32 Love and Support Data-driven/Continuous Improvement
Cultural Relevance
Restorative Justice
Trauma-informed
Collaborative 32

33. Training and Resources

37. Registration

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39. Monitoring and Evaluation
Love and Support
Data-driven/Continuous Improvement
Cultural Relevance
Restorative Justice
Trauma-informed
Collaborative 39

40. Monitoring and Evaluation
Program Models
Data Collection
Implementation & Fidelity

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42. Questions, Comments?
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