001[Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you foreign [Music] thank you foreign [Music] thank you foreign [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] call this meeting to order at 7 pm good evening everyone we're reconvened a regular session put a roll call please Ms Johnson Christine Garrett president yeah are there any changes to the agenda there are there are a few um there's an amendment to personal action report on 13 C1 um the corrected version is is now attached okay we are going to pull item 16a2 because it is no longer needed [Music] okay and then um an amendment on item 18 we are going to adjourn in memory of Brian nausea and C Sirhan okay all right do we have a motion to approve with those changes so moved all in favor aye
002approval at the minutes [Music] all in favor aye there's nothing to report out of closed session and now um one of my favorite parts of the year is to recognize the student of the month this time it's a student a month for October of the adult transition program Mr beshears foreign Jefferson ATP student a student of the month um it is our pleasure to present Rafael Thaddeus Guevara juhsd student of the month Raphael is a student at Jefferson adult transition program and he will be graduating this spring he completed his studies at Oceana High School in 2019. joining us at ATP for the 2019-2020 school year Raphael tells us that his favorite experiences while at Oceana included math that's very awesome field trips swimming cooking and community service he brought those interests with him to
003ATP where he has continued his education including taking classes at Skyline College when you meet Raphael one of the first things that strikes you is how he carries himself with maturity and dignity Raphael always takes a positive approach to his academic studies he attributes this to his ability in his words to identify a problem and solve it to come up with a new idea that improves things to think about Solutions the solution-oriented approach to school is evident in the way he approaches his job at Walgreens where he now works independently without a job coach in the future he would like to work at a movie theater or a restaurant he would also like to work at the Apple Store but ultimately his goal is to study engineering Raphael also has an active personal life his
004hobbies include watching movies listening to music playing sports particularly basketball playing video games and chatting with friends also Raphael really enjoys walking his dog Raphael's teacher Alexander's dryer had this to say about him for the past two years I've had the privilege of working with Rafi Rafi is an outstanding student in addition to being an exceptional person he has overcome a variety of hardships throughout his young life and continues to persevere through new obstacles throughout his tenure at adult transition he has grown immensely in his pursuit of Independence currently Rafi is enrolled in the general education class at Skyline Community College and has excelled in a number of work sites supported by juhsd workability program in the classroom Raffia served as a role model to other students and when the opportunity presents itself Rafi helps
005his peers in performing either work related or academic related tasks for future plans Rafi plans to enter into the technology industry and applies creative skill sets and I'm confident that he will eventually discover a role that he will be passionate about he has this to say as well I'm so proud of you Rafi continue to believe in yourself as I will continue to do and I know that you will achieve greatness congratulations you absolutely deserve this recognition Rafi transition specialist Emily Hansen had this to say it's been an absolute Joy watching Rafi develop into the independent and responsible young man that he is today I remember the first time I took him to Skyline College several years ago and I was showing him the Samtrans bus route in order for him to get home after
006class he said Ms Emily I already have the app and know how to get uh get the bus home I personally downloaded the SamTrans app for myself Rafi has set many goals for himself over the years and I continue to Marvel at his motivation organization and follow through Rafi is synonymous with reliability and I thank him for that Rafi has also demonstrated tremendous leadership skills and he doesn't miss an opportunity to support his peers I'm so proud of you Rafi and congratulations on this acknowledgment and so the Jefferson Union High School District student of the month Rafael Guevara by the way he's joined here with his mother Bernadette and I'm sorry you're his brother right Joseph and Joseph great I'm with members of the board like to address Rafi um just congratulations on this honor
007we don't give um this honor out to very many students and obviously there's a reason why Mr Brashears in the adult transition program felt that you were deservedly so um in getting this award so just I'm just reading all your accomplishments and they're wonderful so it would definitely wish you best of luck in the future congratulations again sorry I don't want to embarrass you know it's a you know echo my colleague statements you know um this is an honor um and um it's an honor to have you here and with your family to you know obviously accept this and um in addition hopefully you can come back to The District in in the future and share your experiences while you're a student here and of course in your career moving forward we always want our
008students to to come back and play that role um because as teachers we know that um our students obviously learn from us but as we know too we learn a lot from our students and of course our alumni and our district community so um feel free let's um feel free to come back in and share everything you've learned in and the kind of things you want to share with the Next Generation as well congratulations thank you so thank you all for being here congratulations Rafi on everything you've accomplished and to Mom you know to both of you um sometimes your journey with your kids it's hard when obstacles are put in front of them and they work so hard to achieve and sometimes those obstacles for certain people are more than others and it's not
009fair and to see that you push through anyway that you have to have that resilience and you continue to push through it's just a testament to who you are and I'm happy that we can acknowledge you in this way and to you Mom thank you for always supporting because I know it's a thankless job thank you Rafi congratulations job well done this is a it's exciting to have you here this evening and to hear and read your accomplishments and I look forward to one day actually pop into the Apple Store and having you help me with my iPhone so you know and what kind of engineer would you like to do great great good luck I know you'll do it um congratulations so very proud of you and Mom what a wonderful I could just
010tell you're so so proud right now and um and I I don't think I could have gone to school and and taken a college class at the same time it and I really wouldn't know how to navigate on this on a SamTrans app I really I could not figure that out my son could and I I could not but um I look forward to hearing all the great things you're going to do you you really I'm just so impressed by you and I'm so proud of you and you make us look good as a district thank you so much now would you want to hand him his certificate and then we'll take a picture with you and your family we have to be to share the picture with you that's right one two three congratulations
011[Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] yeah thank you [Music] it's a great coffee mug excuse me that's so nice now for communications her board report we'll start with missing Garrett um I would like to again extend my condolences to the United Family are there wonderful staff member of our community has passed and it's uh if it's tragic at the same time I always feel that our community is always so strong and always embracing all the things that are have happened and continue to support everyone who is involved so I I really want to just acknowledge that and again extend my condolences yeah just tackle that um of course store District Community [Music] um just thinking about the semester and the point you know right now it's been a fast semester but it is November um and reflecting
012on a lot of the loss in our communities we are still in the pandemic but situation the conditions have changed a bit and um just you know to to observe that our students you know are in their second year in returning to schools that um the weight of a lot of responsibilities um and um financially academically just everything for our families in our district things like this are unexpected um definitely take a heavier toll and and just you know keeping up with a lot of things we're seeing the news and a lot of our students um watching the outcomes of um of gun violence in Parkland watching the sentencing today and seeing that in the news and recognizing a lot of our high school students who are in middle school when these events happened and
013the kind of impact that has um in triggering trauma or even just really just creating a different reality and expectations are our students should be resilient um and facing but also should not have to feel um are normalized in our communities in recognizing that um this kind of violence can create two reactions it can create more violence work and create Solutions and more of movement and understanding that um we can change something some things we cannot change but some things we can and so um just very proud about how far students have come across our nation here in our community sure that these discussions are being had in our classes across classes and of course in our ethnic studies classes which I've started this semester and hoping that this um these events and you know
014even the loss of a teacher and family over the course of you know these past few years definitely bring I think a different kind of gravity to what we do in our classrooms in terms of teaching and understanding what learning loss is in terms of of skill gaps but understanding that our students have have a high level of education learning how to survive in this generation and strive and so um it is November 1st it is also a Native American and Indigenous people's months history month and heritage month and recognizing with all of our history and Heritage to kind of understand what the past the present and our futures are in understanding how to channel that into our education in the present day and so to that effect I'm happy to be back here in
015um what looks like will be an interesting semester I think in changing the future of our nation's youth in the election just reminding everybody to vote next Tuesday if you can vote and if you cannot vote yet um to encourage other people who can vote who have the right to vote and the privilege for those who don't have their uh their voting rights restored yet or initiated yet um to encourage them to vote get involved Raise Your Voice speak up and even if you can't do that on the ballot in an election get involved in your community and speak up there are many issues obviously affect all of us and every voice counts even if you don't feel it's popular or you feel like you're outspoken people do agree with you and need to hear
016from you and very proud to see our students in especially Our Youth and our community speak up over the past few years and make that change that's brought us here today so that's all I have to do thank you thank you bless you Houdini you a echo a lot of the comments that have been made by my two colleagues um it's you know the passing of someone from this place to the next it's hard to go on to move forward um I remember one time I was in the airport and there was a woman and she was in the security and she just stopped in line and just started crying and when I went to ask her what had happened she said she was going to her mom's funeral and it was just so hard
017to get through the security line and you know it's just moments like that that I think about that the world just keeps spinning even if you are out of sync or just not aligned with it or you just need a moment to breathe and I think about that especially with all of our staff here because there's nothing faster than a school year and it's really hard to take a moment to breathe with all of the things that are constantly required of everyone who works here no matter what you know place you are positioned that you are in the district there's never a lack of things to do um and so I just wanted to say I put on my social media as well you know we will survive the district will go on everybody needs
018to take the moment to pause if you need to pause um because it has been a lot we've you know from what we've been told and maybe more that I don't know of but so far three staff members of our staff in a very close proximity to each other and we are a very close District we're a tight family we have to be in order to survive so each one of these losses is hugely significant um and you know it's okay to take that moment to to to do what you need to do for yourself um I will also say that elections are extremely important and um I do hope that everyone votes especially since the ballot is mailed to each of us we have the extreme privilege here of the ease of voting and
019that's not something that's available to everyone in America anymore which is sad but I'm so happy and proud to live in California where it's one of the easiest places to vote anywhere so take advantage of that pride and privilege I want to thank everyone who worked on the College and Career Fair at ceremony it's so happy to have that back and to see that it was so well attended um so again thank you to all the staff and all the students that volunteered their time and everybody that came out and manned a table it was great um and um I also just want to quickly acknowledge that the county acknowledged um transgender pride and they're having their flag raising tomorrow and um at the meeting today because I listened to them two members of the
020community came and spoke against that and so it's just that wave is starting to come here so just to all of our students especially our lgbtq and trans students who in this political cycle it's just been a lot of vitriol you know the district position hasn't changed and we are home to however you want to show up that's all I want to say Mr Lee um just echoing the comments and sentiments of my board colleagues um but I also do want to send my personal condolences to the nasay family and I'm so incredibly proud of the way our community has rallied around this family these past couple of weeks and um it's just it's it's incredible to see the love and care um that's happening to see to read it online to read it in
021emails to um to know what's happening right now in the community room of 705 ceremony um it's it's it's truly a powerful thing to know that we are an incredible group of people who comprise this District who take care of each other and take care of our community and take care of our children um it's been a since the last board being it's been a whirlwind for me in terms of the things I've been been attached to with to represent this District to be at the Oceana open house last week the College and Career Fair with MS salahuddin uh the Bayshore block party on Saturday with president tahada and also um being at the styling College housing uh ribbon cutting when they opened their 30 units a couple of weeks ago and that's a remarkable
022remarkable development that they have they're beautiful units um it was uh it was definitely an honor to be able to walk through their development and see the incredibly incredible good work that they've done um and to be able to speak with our Boulevard Partners who also are managing that property as well so it's it's been a lot but I know that um we keep moving forward and there's a lot that we've done so far this year and there's so much more that we're going to do and I'm really excited and proud of the work that every single one of us is doing in this community so uh a few weeks ago my son and I went to NYU to visit Carly who graduated from Jeff last year and she's a freshman at NYU it was
023family weekend it was uh she said would you please bring my ballot and we're gonna go through the ballot so I can vote and um I just love it so so I did bring her ballot and uh so she filled it out um yeah it's um I just see how she's blossomed and she's taking New York by storm and she's just loving every minute of it and and just to think that not too long ago her father passed away and things were so hard for her um you know just in April and uh six weeks before graduation and that Jefferson family really got her through it you know and uh so self-care is really important to us and our family right now and that's part of reason why I don't go to as many I
024mean events as I normally would have because I need to take time to feel better and it takes time but I did go to the Bayshore block party was awesome you know got to see some old friends and meet new people and just the energy there is fantastic I love that community um and so with that I'm going to turn this over to the superintendent report thank you much of what I have on my list has been said um I want to offer deep condolences to the naze family and I too just want to Echo that um our district is really holding the family and friends um of Brian nase and it's why we all want to be here it's a caring community um was that the Oceana eighth grade open house last week um
025and want to mention that Terra Nova's 8th grade open house is tomorrow and West Moore's 8th grade open house is going to be on Thursday so those are events that are coming up this week and those are really great great events for 8th grade families to come and learn all about the communities so they can make a good decision about which high school they want to attend I want to congratulate Pat Ramos on her retirement um we so we've celebrated her a few times in the past past couple of weeks but um her last day was last Friday and um so she's gonna be missed though I don't think she's gonna go too too far um I also want to thank uh and Carew and Denise Shreve who worked really hard putting the College and
026Career Fair together along with I believe her name is Marie at Serramonte Mall um really want to thank them it was a great event um it was I was so excited to see the kids there and um we had the retirement party and the College and Career Fair the same night so miss Baca and I were kind of hopping in between um the Bayshore block party was really really fun uh I think it's their third annual and I can't wait uh for next year's it was great to be in the community and to see lots of old friends I used to be superintendent there a long long time ago so um you know faces don't change a lot there's a lot of the same people it was really nice to be there um so yeah
027a lot of fun events happening in the last few weeks and lots going on in our district um and just proud to be here I'm great thank you now for the AFT local 1481 report Miss Casey thank you um I'm not going to repeat uh a lot of what we've heard already about voting and also um the community that we have people have given from their hearts and um if you want to continue to give there's emails that you can find from me um I I want to say that our our uh 1481 exec board just had an emergency meeting to look at the tentative agreement for this year we did a lot of the negotiations in the spring but we really had to leave some of it for this past week and miraculously we
028took two days and it's a pleasure to work with our team here um you know a lot of times you hear people talk about negotiations being you know really combative and you know I appreciate our team as willing to talk difficult talk to each other but we're able to work in a positive manner um so my exec board voted to move it forward to our membership I'll be putting that out on an email to the membership and then we'll be voting next week um so you know if all goes well then we'll be having our our contract um tentative agreement taken up so that's all but thank you to everyone who was on the team and um on both sides thank you for the work we've done together thank you thank you um Miss Preston
029do we have a covid-19 update the the update is that we will be sending home covid tests with students before Thanksgiving break um and really that's it yep hey all right so now on to the consent agenda improved consent all in favor aye okay okay now for uh do we have any public comments no we do not now on to our wellness program updates yay [Laughter] [Music] no it's not a zoom screen anymore okay too long since you bet um I even changed my sweater for me I feel so that's so nice hi everyone hi um welcome nice to see you um I'm Melissa Ambrose the wellness coordinator for Jefferson Union High School District and I have a wonderful colleague too with me tonight um who will introduce yourself good evening um because I will
030introduce myself I have a shelf for telato ql it is on um I um the Council on special assignment uh specifically my role is overseeing the mental health internship program and supporting with a lot of policies and procedures and making sure this one stays afloat so I wanted one because I'm blue I'm in this role and also a lot of you have not met me um but just wanted to share who I am uh Melissa told me I have to explain who I am uh formerly I'm Dr Michelle fortelato ql um I am a part of this District I graduated in 20 years ago in 2002 I was part of Jefferson High School's uh first peer assistance class this is embarrassing you to show but it's on social media here [Laughter] it's Footlocker at the
031time um the reason why I think part of why it's important for me to introduce myself is because you know when I'm thinking of Rafi who's student of the month and then just thinking of the comments of like him coming back here uh this is full circle for me um previously before this I was at San Francisco Unified for seven years um while I was finishing my doctorate I needed to work part-time um Melissa and Yvette both have to be ill to come over to this side um yeah I was also in um the steps of college course that miss Monica Casey taught uh she was also my middle school math teacher so like this is how we go were you teaching when you were twins I bring this back because really I mean yeah
032it one it's still weird calling her oh but I say all of this because I'll keep it real I struggled with mental health in high school I saw the special services counselor which is now what the wellness counselors are called I was an internalizer so I was a student you wouldn't see would it ever be called to the counseling office wouldn't have behavior issues I was an a to d student um you know depended on the year um so yeah what and I say that because the pr assistance class with it being the first one it really opened my eyes to this work um Jeff lippman who retired several years ago was uh the special services counselor at Jeff he uh helped me actually get through um SF State through my social work program was
033actually the person who wrote my letter of Rec for grad school got me my first job right out of grad school um so I want to honor him because he is why I'm here today um and I'm also here today because I didn't see folks that look like me I'm Filipino um we know this district has a lot of Filipino students um so part of why I'm here and in this role and I love being here is because this is home to me um I still live in the same place I live when I was in high school um which means I could actually hear Jeff's Bells but yeah so my expertise and experiences really around suicidality crisis response I help write the crisis response protocol for sfusd and we'll be doing some of the
034work here around that um and my research was really on restorative justice for students who've experienced racism and oppression so that's just a little bit about me and where did you intern one year or work I worked one year at Westward as through Asian American Recovery Services so back in 2008 yeah so yeah so yeah um and we're so lucky very lucky uh yeah we want to highlight what our Wellness team is doing our strengths our challenges and what we're working on and what our leads are um as we all know schools have tons of acronyms um we will try to say these as but these are the academes you may see but we'll also uh verbally share it so folks can um remember or understand what it means if there's any questions or if
035you lead me to slow down feel free to do so uh so uh this is our this is part of our Wellness team this year I don't know if all of you Michelle will go over this more in detail but including the folks that are doing the the therapy for students who have special education services and then have one of the services is therapy I think we're up to 17. um which is just really extraordinary um and I think we have in a really amazing staff and so this is a picture one of our staff members who's also a graduate of our district um harpreet Sangha she went to Westmore right in the front her family owns a pizza place and we had a wellness social event so this is just some of us and
036then just a little tiny munchkin in the corner there preet was the after-school care for my daughter when she was at elementary school yeah she was with yeah so and we have yeah well Michelle we'll talk about that we have a couple other graduates so we're very lucky so this was this year this is last year again some of us um and we just wanted to let you all see a picture of us um rather than going through all the names and every single picture um and we try really hard to create a strong team um connectedness and and culture so that we can depend on each other because we have a lot of intense things that we deal with and so we're constantly calling emailing texting G jetting and then have to occasionally go
037out and do something fun that was brunch at Boulevard so let me talk about self-care this is our self-care um okay so just the breakdown um so there's for every School site there's a one to two Wellness counselors every school has a school social worker uh the educationally related Mental Health Services therapists uh they're the ones who see students in special ed uh it's a weird number because uh I'm at Oceana like one day a week see a couple students uh we have someone at Westward and then we have um someone full-time at Jeff and then we have the mhe the mental health enhancement therapist uh which is specifically the therapist for the mental health enhancement classroom at West War who's there full-time Melissa's our Wellness coordinator I am the Council on special assignment um
038and this year we bumped our interns and trainees to Lyle so these are graduate level mental health interns uh from various universities uh they interned with us anywhere from 16 to 30 hours a week um they get either a what's a two thousand dollar stipend and we're excited to say this year uh with a lot of support and especially shout out to Mark beshears who um supported us El Javi were actually placed an intern uh one day a week with adult transition um and Adult Ed so we have someone who's there uh supporting uh the students around their mental health as well uh also with again what Melissa said we have a couple folks who are graduates so uh we have a graduate from we have three while the staff who are graduates two from
039West Warren one from Jeff we have a fair one of our Wellness counselors who was a former intern and that our current interns and trainees uh three of them actually graduated from our district so we have uh two from Terra Nova and one from West war and all of our interns and trainees um eight out of line of them are bilingual and they're all bicultural so we were intentional in making sure we have students who or we have interns who look like uh the students that we're serving oh and then part of um our team is funded through the mental health uh School Services act which is uh on year three year two no we have one more year yeah so it funds about three three uh positions um so our strengths uh really we
040want to start with the shakespeace approach really we provide a lot of services to our students and families Melissa will show you the data in a little bit also I want to recognize we are providing services and supports to our faculty and staff as well uh and thinking of um the passing of Mr Lassie at West War you know we were intentional as a team of how are who's checking in with the faculty do we lead someone who's not part of the westward team to be in there because we also understand the westward team the keltic team and the wellness team are part of that community so we were like hey if you need us to tap in uh we've had staff from well the staff from other schools come in and provide that support
041um our school social workers really focus on um three focal populations our new cover youth our foster Youth and our homeless housed um students uh this year we've been updating our policies and protocols related to our trans and non-binary uh newcomer students and then a lot of our schools are doing a lot of created things uh in terms of tier one approaches school-wide supports during lunch time Flex um doing the community response resiliency model and social emotional learning I know the team at ocean is partnering with uh ethnic studies in terms of providing some wellness support around that uh my position is new we have more interest and then a big piece of what maybe folks don't recognize with violin Willis's roles we do a lot of clinical supervisions so a lot of our staff
042are going up for uh State licensure and what that requires is 3 000 hours supervised uh 52 weeks of supervision and most districts do not actually provide that so our district we provide the supervision uh for our staff which I think is what gets folks ill because that that could be costly folks like just to keep it real for supervision it costs about a hundred dollars an hour so if you're thinking about you need you know 104 weeks total and you need two units a week yeah um so we're able to provide that for our staff who lead it and then also our interns and obviously we do a lot of collaboration and consultation with each other um with the leadership team here and with our faculty and staff um yeah and I'll just say
043we have a so right now we have eight staff working towards licensure um which is really for me it just means that like that means they're actively engaged in the practice of mental health counseling right so like that we are having conversations twice a week about practice about how it's impacting them um and about you know like how they can take care of themselves how they can take care of their students how they can take care of their families and so it's a beautiful sort of ongoing dialogue um that we're that we're engaged in and there's the one thing I will say about our team is just that that really uh deeply connected to each other and reaching out for support and nobody there's like this there's this sort of idea that we're constantly always
044learning and growing in the field and that and that and we are doing a lot of examination around um how sort of how does the culture even of counseling how can that be oppressive especially in terms of you know that therapy is often very white culturally and so we're really looking at like how can we meet our students where they are who they are honor who they are and then divest ourselves from practices that we might do in the counseling room that could be oppressive um and could sort of continue the ideas of of less than and not good enough which is a lot of what we're dealing with in the in the therapy rooms along with a lot of other stuff that you all know our students are dealing with uh just briefly I'm
045not gonna go through all of our Community Partners but uh we work with a range of different Community Partners obviously Daly City youth Health Center is a big one and uh Jefferson Elementary School District um the County Office of Ed we have monthly meetings uh specifically for the north county collaborative or we're collecting with a lot of the different agencies that we're partnering with including our police officers and police departments uh the last thing on that right corner is the different universities we've partnered with to get entrance so we have Berkeley Smith San Francisco State San Jose State and Cal State East Bay as some of our partners um and then the top right one is that we do use star Vista which is probably one of the largest non-profit counseling organizations in San Mateo
046County and they have the mobile the teen mobile crisis unit so if any of our counselors or let's just say there was a day where counselors weren't on site and only admin were there and there was a kid they were worried about having any suicidal ideation star Vista sends a team out and can assess they do trainings for us they're just super supportive for us they also host the teen chat room so we have we try to foster a strong ongoing relationship with them they also have another program where they send a therapist to Jefferson called strengthening our youth so what soy the soy program supporting our youth or strengthening our youth I don't actually know what that is I have the mou somewhere um we've done a lot of partnering in the last two
047years with rape trauma Services which goes by RTS and they've been doing a lot of pushing education at Westmore and the wellness team at Westmore has been orchestrating a massive um amount of presentations that are going on at that school so this is just some of our organizations um are we missing great do you have any questions because we're just gonna nope great okay okay so data I we have tons more and if you want it I'll show it to you but this is what happened with the data for me this year I started pulling graphs and charts and freaking out and getting green to help me and I looked at it and I was like does this actually mean anything for you all and the thing about it is that the team changes sizes
048right so last year we had five mental health interns this year we have nine we didn't have all the um um erms counselors so the folks attached to the students who have IEPs so like when you start to look at the numbers it doesn't actually always make sense we also have some teams that are major Synergy loggers they're like all over it and we have some teams that figured out how to do what's called batch logging so when they go push into a class they send a little some kind of thing to it and it magically populates every student in all five periods that they presented you a little note saying that they're the students in that class got a social emotional Learning lesson or whatever so so when you look at numbers what I
049want to say is that it's always hard for me to tell you all exactly what it means so what I decided to do was sort of distill some of the most important numbers and if you have questions about it I'll answer and if you want all the crazy spreadsheets and charts super happy to share it to you and even kind of try to tidy it up so it makes a little bit of sense um it's not my forte just you all know data makes me a little cuckoo that are that are really helpful with it so in this so this is all for last year in the 21-22 uh school year we had a significant percent of our average 33.6 percent of our district was seen by a wellness counselor now how were they seen
050it could have been uh pushing into a class and it could have been we have a couple students that were seen like 20 30 40 times right major crises major containment so it was anywhere in that range so those are the percentages for each high school and again we can ask ourselves why Oceana had a a staff go out a maternity leave we had a huge lapse in getting someone else in there Michelle was at Oceana last year part-time I came in but I was sort of just doing my job from there and dealing with prices like so there's a lot of reasons why some of the numbers are different and again we have amazing loggers in some of the schools in some of the schools like they're they're not log they're not as long
051heavy which doesn't mean they're not doing as much um and I nag them all the time so but what I see is that we had 12 805 contacts some of those are not actual sessions some of those were a wellness counselor picking up a phone calling a parent or Guardian but that's a lot a lot going on for I think last year was probably about 14 people plus some interns so um there were some questions about how so we see students in many ways so a student can self-affer a teacher can refer a student's friend can refer a parent guiding Guardian can refer any other staff member can refer an administrator can refer a community sometimes we even get calls from one of the middle school districts and said this just happened last week a
052counselor called me and said I can't give you the details it's confidential please have someone check in with the student and just say I want to know how you're doing something was going on we don't know what it was I you know so we do that kind of stuff all the time every single site has an electronic Google form referral and also a lot of the sites like people just run past a wellness counselor and say Melissa see Doreen so there's a lot of ways that the the information gets gathered but the Google form is on all the schools websites on our Wellness website and the wellness teams often in the beginning of the year go in and push in to either the class class meetings or into grade level like all push into 9th
053grade English and just talk about introduce themselves show everybody where the forms are some of the wellness teams even made of QR code thank you and um have Instagrams so I'm again low on the tech some of them are very high on the tech um yeah so the other thing that I'll say that I didn't show you in a graph is that when you look at this who's being seen it generally aligns well with the ethnic breakdowns in school um there are some there are some a little bit like where you're seeing higher population of students that are of what we call in Synergy Hispanic origin um and some some but I will say we definitely see more female identified students than male identified students or you know like it's a significantly higher percentage which
054I think is pretty normal for high school and there's a lot of you know reasons for that um this is just another image of that students by grade level by High School um and uh uh you all have the slides on the bottom of the slides um I have like exact numbers that you can look at and the other thing that is interesting is we do see more ninth graders and 12th graders um by quite a bit by like 500 sessions um which I think is a change I can go back and look at the data because the it used to be that the 11th and 10th graders were the high needs and I'm wondering um if this is related to like some of the pandemic lag I'm not sure um what that's about but
055that's what was true last year I could assume what the ninth graders because a lot of them are coming from schools where they've seen a counselor so now they know going into high school like oh like I feel like that's what's happening is some of them are like I saw a counselor in Middle School um so they know now there's somewhat which is good because that means the services are being provided at a younger age when they get to high school they're ready to seek out services or continue services and we did a pretty big push with ninth grade teachers last year saying these kids have you know like from the pandemic coming in missed a lot of their middle school like really keep your eye on them so I think it's possible that we
056had a lot of referrals from ninth grade teachers last year because ninth grade teachers are paying a lot of attention to what's going on um these were some facts that I thought were uh really interesting and and I love the top one so 78 of the students that we're seeing are only having one to ten sessions and that is what we want like we want to keep it that if possible because if you're seeing a wellness counselor more than 10 times you're moving well out of sort of tier one and a half tier two and then up and it means there's a lot going on and most of the wellness counselors on site are not doing therapy right we're not seeing kids weekly we're seeing kids as needed until we can kind of move them
057on so I liked that the 70 78 that feels about right and if you think about the multi-tiered system of support with tier one tier two tier three that's actually a really healthy breakdown of what we're doing um yeah so when you say move them on your meaning move them to another like what does that mean exactly great question so ideally sort of pre-pandemic times a lot of us felt like we could see a student around a particular issue right and help give them the resources and the support they needed to kind of be okay without seeing us regularly a percentage of those students are like yeah I want ongoing counseling so we fill our interns up we feel the Daily City youth Health Center trainees and it turns up and then we make referrals
058to Kaiser which has been very difficult lately and then we all have we have this organization that the whole County uses called care Solace which helps people who don't have Kaiser it does help people of Kaiser but a lot more so if you don't have Kaiser navigate the crazy world of trying to find a therapist right so care Solace is a is an organization that you can call up anybody in the district a staff a family or a student can call and get help finding a therapist so that's one other thing then another possibility that sometimes we're working with again we're moving out of the 78 percent we're moving into that 20 of like what's going on sometimes um we might say wow this kid's what's going on with this kid is so intense that
059we actually have to think about doing a possible special education referral and doing an assessment and seeing if we need to give like a lot more support right and then in some extreme cases which we have regularly at each of the schools we have to talk to families about um hospitalization we have to talk to families about inpatient treatment we have to talk to families about what's called IOP intensive outpatient treatment we have to talk to families about oh eating a specific treatment eating disorder we have to talk to families about specific assessment and treatment for possible psychosis so we have a very small percent of students that are experiencing such distress that it feels like it's moving in to some of the possible psychotic disorders and there's a lot of research that says the
060earlier you catch that you can almost make you can make a major difference in somebody's life there's also an early bipolar prevention program so there's we're watching out all the time for those cases and we're hoping that those are like the very narrow not even the 20 but like 10 of that you know half of that 20 percent but we don't want to have a kid and then who's having a tough time and be like sorry we're too busy we can't see you so the idea is to kind of figure out what is next that isn't necessarily the wellness counselor and a wellness counselor or a school social worker will see a kid and tell we feel that they are in a stable held situation and again the other things sometimes we're looking at is
061where are they like why aren't they coming to school right so do we need to contact home do we need to figure out like is there something we can do to make school a more comfortable place for them to be so that's another thing that we're doing um so over there on the little Post-It note thing I was surprised that our hospitalizations weren't up higher last year I was actually expecting a much higher and actually I do want to note that the language we used on that is taken to the hospital I don't actually have data on how many of them were held so but it means that their suicidality was so strong that the wellness counselor felt that we could not assure their safety and they needed to be assessed further the hospitals are
062inundated they are turning away kids that we just never thought would be turned away um also hospitalization isn't really the best treatment for suicidality it's really like giving a pause for everybody it's guaranteeing safety for a number of days so that the family can kind of figure out what's next with the help of hospital staff but our hospitalization our students taking the hospital didn't go up very much compared to the year before the year that we were not in school for seven of the months and I so I just want to just note that and then um so we did at least 120 suicide assessments last year and again there's a long conversation in our staff about what what does it mean when we log an assessment because we are asking students daily regularly all
063the time are you thinking about suicide it is a regular normal question for us to ask so an assessment is when you're going quite a bit deeper than those basic questions and a kid's like yeah sometimes I wish I didn't I wish I wasn't here it'd be easier but I'm totally not doing anything or thinking of anything that those we don't log as assessments so the 120 were much more in-depth long-term conversations um and there was probably more than that again because of the logging differences between our staff um and then we did have I started a new logging form last year so that last year's the first year of data for crisis reports and so that form collects this is all de-identified just so you know so there's never a student name on these
064logs because it's we don't ever want to link a student uh to a log that's like a Google thing just for for for confidentiality reasons but so we had we had 59 crisis reports last year and those include Child Protective Services reports we did not have any Adult Protective Services reports last year we had quite a large number of sexual harassment assault and rape um and then a lot of different contacts with police for different reasons and some of those are cyber bullying some of those were someone trafficking you know someone sent someone a nude photo that then got you know all that stuff so that's what happened last year um yeah so the one thing that I'll say about this um and as we're moving on a little bit to the challenges slide is
065that I think we do a beautiful job for the kids that are on the low end of needs and for the kids that are on the high end where we really at the middle is where it's hard where kids have need right and like weekly therapy would be amazing they're not in crisis and when you call Kaiser and if you don't say the word suicide they'll be like we'll call you back in six months like it's that middle band of kids that it's hard to take care of and they do have more needs than we can meet and so that's like so just one of our areas um of thoughts and we'll move on to the challenges slide you all heard already a lot of our challenges um I mean the whole world feels like
066it has increased need for mental health support uh some of the intensity of the cases that we're dealing with feels to me like it's increasing and that could be a little bit subjective that a lot of us are feeling fatigued from the the pandemic from climate catastrophe from the political tensions you know like there's a lot of stress and then from like you know public schools are just struggling so it does feel though that intensity is in is increasing um I'm starting to feel we have had some turnover in Wellness staff um and folks are feeling stressed so and that it's hard to like kind of hold that like I want the wellness staff to feel really well and really support it I think they feel supported but they're stressed and someone want to actually
067an intern to me today said to me are you okay Melissa like are you taking care of yourself and I was like oh I brought all my stress into that supervision room so I think there's a lot of stress and uh some of the trauma that we're hearing about over time starts to impact us um so we're doing a little more work on how to build resilience and how to protect ourselves and take care of ourselves um it's really important to me that our staff reflect our students cultures and languages really important it's important to all mental health organizations it's important to the schools to the south of us that pay more it's really hard to get so right now we only have one fully bilingual Spanish-speaking Wellness staff and we need more we need
068more Spanish speakers for sure and we need more folks who speak other languages so that's a challenge um for sure um moving us out of triage which is like Crisis after crisis and the crisis as you all know for teenagers could be my boyfriend or girlfriend or partner broke up with me it could be I got my cell phone taken away and it could be my father died like we had several kids that wanted we've had several parental deaths in the last month at one school ready so like that's a major crisis um but regardless of what the crisis is we get stuck in kind of helping contain the crises and that takes up a lot of time and energy and so we're not planning we don't have as much time to plan to push
069into classes and do more tier one or plan a big Wellness fair at lunch or do in-depth planning for suicide prevention month and there's always this tension between triage versus tier one do you all need me to explain more about tier one tier one are services that every student at the school could get right so like when we push into classes when we do a screening of a movie and have a panel when we go do an assembly those are tier one things and those are preventative and preventatives we should be doing a lot of preventative and it's hard because we get stuck in our offices with the next kid who stressed and the next kid and the next kid in the next kid um we still have more need resource needs around our trans
070and non-binary students um I'll just say it we don't like locker rooms are confusing and problematic bathrooms are confusing and problematic um the Synergy does a lot more now than it did before we are stuck between California and technology and family so students have incredible rights in the state of California incredible protections we're supposed to code switch with their families and then Synergy has its very specific particulars about how names and genders are shown and so we're working with it um I've added the policy all the procedures to your to the weekly recap so you all can see that and then our newcomer students need a lot of support and again part of that is Spanish speaking support and um interns and trainees um we are running out of space which is a beautiful problem
071it means that we're increasing our Chinese we're increasing our staff Daly City youth Health Center I think she doubled in the last two years her trainees have doubled like people need a place to work they needed to be confidential they need a door to close they need a sound machine to go on they need heat you know like you know it's it's not it's a great space to have a great problem to have but we need space I don't know where we're going to get it and we're being creative and the school sites are being wonderful and they're being helpful so um that is and then yeah as you all know like our salaries aren't competitive but we have a wonderful staff and they do get supervision um and what as the staff grows we
072have I have to work on better communication Michelle really helps Michelle's amazing I think you've all been linked on to the wellness newsletter that we give to our staff every week that's made a huge difference so instead of getting 25 emails a week from me they're getting the wellness newsletter and I think they're all really relieved about that so those are some of our challenges just our last thing is really kind of looking at our next steps and what's in progress um so we're working on just larger-wide policies and procedures there is no crisis protocol for this District so it's something that we've been working on including like a home visit protocol because as now we're back in person um you know we wanna our staff can do whole visits and we want to be
073mindful of how that's done um really working with our communication with Daly City youth Health seller uh looking at tier one interventions we've been building out our Wellness Drive uh continually obviously collaboration consultation and support with each other the last thing this this actually happened last week was we uh our we got invited to partner with a uh on a grant with San Francisco State's counseling department um to increase stipends for our mental health interns appreciate um Miss Baca who helped gather a lot of data because it was it was like a one-week turnaround um and with that again it would increase supports uh for our interest because what's happening out in the mental health field is a lot of interns in mental health programs are not able you know they don't want to work
074for free especially living the Bay Area so this grant would be um for five years to support with uh again finally are interns who come ill to provide these services to our students and also supported by role as the Costa uh in supervision as well do you want to do that too so yeah our our future needs are all the things that we've already talked about so just so you all know the interns that go down to Sequoia Union are getting ten thousand dollars a year so you know we really want to like luckily we have interns and trainees that love our district um but you know it's the same thing that this District deals with all the time all the time the financial pull to the North and the financial pull to the South
075right so like the districts that are so that's something that we need to think about um we have the mental health school Services act funded positions in the coastal position so that we have one more year of those three positions fully funded positions and it and then we have Michelle's part-time position um there's there's just no decreased need for wellness as you all know and there's no decreased need for good teachers and good staff and good administrators so I'm not at all pretending that we're the most important part of what we're doing um at all but we have a lot we have a lot of need um and I would I hope that we can keep all the positions and then again really figuring out how support our students um whose culture and languages don't
076match all of ours and like really as much as we can having our staff reflect our student body that's it that's us we did it and we have time yeah I think we have time for questions if you all want to open it I open it up to a report if you have any questions I don't have any questions but um I don't know you doctor yeah you are definitely fantastic and I like we have the same energy I'm trying to be a little you know calm down over here um I think a lot of teachers and staff here work on love and sometimes love is just doesn't pay for rent so I hear you on it and you know um but thank you for all the work that you do you know Melissa you
077know how I feel about you so we're not even gonna in the interest of time but thank you for all you do um thank you for serving our students without you maybe those 25 students wouldn't have even made it to the hospital um right and that's heartbreaking to hear and yes is tier one services that are needed and and not to downplay it but they are like they're just as important right I mean because it could escalate to wherever it might lead to which is lead to a hospitalization so um thank you for being vigilant um staying on top of all the students loving them caring for them with wellness and support and I appreciate everything that you do and that's all I want to say I mean there's so much here it's you know
078um but just you have it handled and I appreciate you also thank you [Music] so uh yeah thank you for the presentation and obviously the work that that comes with it um um I think a lot of the things that us the teacher um not just you know in the field of special education with an education altogether is that our our students see themselves as students in a high school in the community and so a lot of problems that you know the experience that they know they share with their peers before they share with maybe an adult right trusted adults um whoever family and some of those problems stem from conditions at home and in the community things that are out of our control or at least out of our sight and so um I
079think you know with expansion of our Wellness team you know and having a wellness team in our district and with the Daisy youth Health Center um as a former student I could say you know that was one of the places that I knew to go to for my needs and if anybody else I knew needed something um even at Long After High School is something that I referred them to [Music] um I was actually working with Parks and Rec through our teen Services um during the time um 2001 or 2003 so I do remember the work being done on sites uh Jeff and and of course um West Warren Thorne um and Oceana turned up a little but um I know some of the most effective things I could do as a 20-something college student
080and you know a city youth worker was to work with youth and encourage the youth to come up with youth LED and youth initiated services and projects and activities and the city um has a role to play in that through departments through Recreation and library now though those programs have been greatly Consolidated and reduced and and otherwise defunded um a lot of those work a lot of that work still exists and a lot of through volunteers and through our youth and so um I guess um my suggestion would be you know like of course coming full circle I mean like those of us who have had an opportunity to work for our district Community um in a career you know environment to encourage maybe you know how we can tap into where students are seeing
081and hearing and feeling these things um the same way we've seen you know um this generation whether it's called Generation Z or just you know youth of today really step up and address these things you know up front and and so I think um a lot of times empowering them to speak up and feel like they have a voice in um not just self-care but in mutual Aid and taking care of each other and um I guess my question would be um where do we see um maybe an overlap in in terms of peer resources programs which you do have on our sites writing classes and um academics like ethnic studies like you know anything else on campus with the kind of programs that our staff and interns are working on maybe like what ideas
082or what what activities have been suggested and what kind of overlap and collaboration maybe is coming out of that yeah I think that's your your capital letter question as well I think a lot of what we're seeing I mean this is where the tier one supports come in and social media has been I loaded two School sites they've started using that because we got to go where the youth are uh social media is where they're getting their information we're working with like ASB trying to work with also just other groups because we know the students sometimes we're trying to reach are not connected to as we are like I don't want to be associated with that how are we connect you with sports how are we connected with campus security campus supervisors uh because some
083of those folks are the ones that know our students the ones who may be struggling or I know when I was working at Oceana last year it's like okay connected with some of our admin assistants our attendance person um but I like I know a lot of the schools have different clubs where I know like there there's some focus on like social justice and youth movements um and I think part of that is how I think the struggle we have is really how do we reach all students because I know personally for me I see a lot of students who are referring to their friends uh and I think the more we reach out to students and teach them different ways to connect uh how to collect the services and what confidentiality so I think
084the biggest thing is you're going to tell by parent or Guardian that I said XYZ how do we do that in a safe manner um I've had always the idea of like okay the way we have to advertise stuff we got to put it in the bathroom stalls we got to put them in the back like because when you walk in the house there's so much stuff there um but I think again looking at how we can partner with different faculty and staff at the school who have different connections to different groups um and then also bringing in different uh Community organizations as well uh because yes they're part of our school Community but they're part of a larger community and how do we bring them in um as a way to uh just continue
085the connections and supports because we know what success shows for students is that if there's a supportive adult and that supportive adult is not necessarily defined by teacher or whatever it is again it could be uh the campus supervisor the cafeteria person or anybody like that so I'm I love like the creativity of like how do we do this and how do we get student voice I know in Oceana last year we when we pushed into all the ninth grade classrooms we had a survey of like what is it that you want what topics do you want to learn about um and I think we went through that we were able to get feedback and then we were able to share it kind of with the staff like these are what students are saying what
086they want um and how can we leverage other staff because again while this is two or three people um and I think what was helpful is some teachers are like oh yeah like this is students are really just wanting snacks for a place to play their games or be on their phone during lunch my room could be open for that um so those are just some ideas I have uh Melissa don't know if you want to add anything we have a couple couple of schools have um I'm not gonna remember the name these a mental health club that's not the right there's a name that's way nicer than that not nicer but more intriguing where students are um you know we're not ever allowed to say students counseling students that's because that they're not trained
087and doing like destigmatizing mental health so that is definitely going on at several of the schools and the wellness counselors um run those clubs and and the stuff that's going on in peer resources is pretty powerful and a lot of the schools and they do campaigns and they partner up like at Jefferson right now the peer resources classes partnering up with the class that I think is called social communication skills so and they're doing like every Wednesday they get together and they do so like games and play and hang out with each other like kids that normally would not ever be interacting with each other really trying to build Bridges so there is there is stuff like that going on in each of the schools but it's a wonderful suggestion and I think you're absolutely
088right like students guiding students in this is really beneficial and then some of the schools do have we have groups that run so their Counseling group therapy groups the interns do that and then there's some schools that are doing sort of Wellness initiatives so like in the flex time like you can come and do yoga once a week or I know know one of the wellness counselors as basketball like he just goes and plays basketball because and it's amazing how many kids are coming out and like just kind of chatting with him while they're playing basketball so it's just like kind of this open more like we're playing basketball because it's good for us not for any other reason just because it's fun and it's good for us so there's some of that going on
089and again this is that tier one triage tension around it would be amazing if we were out there just nurturing students to nurture students um I would love that I would love to work at a time where that was we had that either that many staff or that low that that low of triage need that's good to hear it's a great place to start and um yeah looking forward to seeing more then I didn't say this but I think you all know we have an amazing staff like you can thank us and we're wonderful Representatives but like the folks that are at the schools are doing extraordinary work and every single one of them has a beautiful heart a beautiful heart and um really like very wise understanding of teens a gratitude extends to them
090yes so I just want to make sure that we're really honoring them because absolutely I'm here because of that because you're only two yes yeah so thank you you answered a lot of the questions I sent ahead of time in the presentation um and I think the the main thing that I was trying to gauge is and you touch on a little bit it's just just you know are the students that need services or need attention getting the attention that they need and how do we gauge that um at the board level you know and um and so I don't know what data to use you know and um but I would like to have some sort of metric that we can we foundationally ground us and then use I mean it is good to
091hear and understand that ethnically is reflective who's being seen as reflective of the community you know is that also true social economically um so that I guess that's my first question I think well yeah that's one such a good question and I think one of the things that comes up for me and I know in other districts I've worked with it's been a struggle of like deciding do we do Universal screening um which I you know again I will it be I don't want to speak highly on it because I haven't looked into the research on it but there's in some school districts they do Universal screening for all students when they come in early Mental Health the problem a little bit of that is when you do Universal screening you are able to identify
092all these students if there's a lot of services like are we doing a disservice then um there's different ways we find out about students again through articulation with the 8th graders of the meetings with eighth grade and um our high schools um especially in ninth grade we try to push into all the classrooms um and then talking to teachers of how do you identify students um but I feel like the students that I see that I didn't realize I needed to see were honestly referred either they referred themselves or another friend refer them so it's going back to like how do we get the word out of Wellness that we're a safe place and safe is obviously a subjective word and so some folks regardless of even if we say explain confidentiality 20 times we're
093not going to be that safe person but then also how are we providing other resources and supports uh but that was just one of the ideas that came to Violet in terms of how do we determine yeah are we serving who we really need to serve I mean it might be part of this a lot of ideas like really think about like how are we reaching parents and Guardians right to determine do they feel like we are certain we are serving their students um yeah you can clean up one year I did a we did a couple years in a row we did like a survey for all the seniors living Oceana and we asked them you know those questions about all sorts of stuff but I threw in Wellness questions and it was interesting
094because it would ask them like did you see Wellness counselor and the kids that were like this was awful I was able to look up and I was like oh that was a CPS report that was a kid that we had to send at the hospital and their ex that experience was awful for them right it was awful so then when we ask ourselves are we doing like it's a it's so subjective yeah I will say again and again if any of you has any relationship with any of the people at Kaiser we the vast majority of our students have Kaiser and many of them have medical Kaiser right they have medical and then they choose Kaiser as the provider and when when we're looking at our students who have Kaiser who are looking for
095weekly therapy it's almost it's just it's non-existent and kids will be hospitalized for not just a three-day hold but a five-day hold or a seven day hold and come out without an appointment for a whole month yep so like I'm not so then we try to see them as much as we can right so we're trying to hold that at school so but I do think it's a really worthy question of like how do we actually measure the effectiveness of our work and not the constantly moving Target right like as the pandemic kind of doesn't seem to end and you know politics are so complicated like the stress levels are really high and so is it that we're not doing our work well or is it that stress levels are high and like then you're
096constantly but I think it's a great question and I think there's I'm sure through Michelle's connection there's lots of um excellent surveys and tools that we can use to ask kids yeah and then just really quickly on the Kaiser like we could touch base after this um it's one of the things I'm on the board of camera I just joined the board of camera and so that's one of the things that I'm really focused on there um and trying to have the county help so I can reach out to you to get more stories so we can talk about it um the the other question that I had when you talked about the the appointments or this the referrals and how I wasn't shocked that it went down and then up because I feel like
097besides suicide reports and because I feel like even for me I was like I've been like really depressed and I'm like what is it I feel like it's I'm processing what just happened I feel like last year it was kind of like I don't know what I I filled my time with stuff like I was super busy during Colvin more busy than I've ever been um so there was no time to really think about what was happening and now that things are kind of getting back to normal and my schedule's getting back to normal that was more busy because I had so many meetings because you could with zoom and everything like you could feel your time now that we're back to normal I feel like I'm going through the down of that was crazy
098that was insane what we all lived through and I wasn't touched by significant loss in family or anything like that so I can't imagine what it's like now for people who are back at school then you're around someone who may not have had anything happen to them you know um I feel like the back to normal sometimes is worse than when everybody was in trauma so I feel like this is going to be it's gonna be more years I mean I feel like we're going to have more years of this so thinking about what we can do we seeing it play out at different schools like what do we do to ensure up the support services for the students but also for the people that are giving support and so you know what and you
099don't have to answer this today but just getting information to the board on what we need to do to support you all as well because it was touched on here in the meeting um and then last is just a just remembering when I first heard about tier one right and that was a while ago and it was new to everybody and we're all like what is this thing so to now see it in practice like I'm super proud of us um and just really thankful for the entire staff because this is something that the students have been asking us for a while and I know I think at some point you're coming to talk to the student trustees and the advisory committee so that's a good resources resource but I know that the students have
100been asking for a while for beefed up Mental Health Services and support so I'm glad that while it's you know nothing is ever what we would love it to be in a perfect world I'm glad that we're able to do the best that we can here um and to see how far we've come is so impressive so thank you all of you because you all support it yeah yeah thank you for for this tonight I mean this is you know what I think about the seven years I've been here this is probably the most comprehensive um look at what we've done but then we we have grown and we haven't grammatically improved our services to students and you know and it hit me when you spoke Melissa specifically about the stipend that they're getting in
101other districts you know and it just simply reinforces the work that I want to keep doing to make sure we can we can sustainably support these types of programs in the in the long run and to be able to make sure that that our our interns our counselors everybody can can live here um because the fundamentally this really needs to be on an equal footing with the acid damage that we're doing with the students because this if the students aren't healthy mentally they're not going to be able to focus on their work it's just that simple and we have a we have a moral obligation to make sure that we take care of them the whole person not just the not just the academic person so thank you so much to you and your team
102for all the work you do and I you know happy to continue to listen and find ways to continue to support the work you're doing how much for your presentation and I loved how um just that word of intentionality is so important and um and that you know I go what everybody else that said here that um you're doing work that is it's changing lives it's saving lives I mean it's um super important I um so when my daughter Carly started High School her grandmother died and then later her grandfather died and then the pandemic happened and she had a rough time during the pandemic and then her father died and even during the pandemic she had teachers referring social workers to her and and kept me out of it it was totally private and
103I went what I mean I didn't even know she says well and we need to get back home because um I have to be home by two I go why do you need to be home by two and she said because I have an appointment with a social worker I want you what and it was because a teacher had referred her and then later when we came back she kept getting pulled out of class to see a wellness counselor and it was different friends referring her and she didn't understand I said is it helping she says no it's not helping because I don't want to talk and I said bud what does it tell you well it tells me people are worried about I mean I guess there's something going on with me and so
104we you know I mean she's the maybe five times she was pulled out but it was a wake-up call and um and we found out that she could get Services through the bereavement through the um uh Hospice Services bereavement counseling through hospice through my dad so she was able to do that and she speaks very openly about the importance of therapy and um and even in school she did but I was always so very thankful that people saw I and here I'm on the board I didn't even see this happening with my kid and I think part of it was because I was in my own stuff you know and so we have people like you looking out for our children and I wish we could we had more resources but I see the amazing
105work that we're doing and I want to thank you for that um and if we have no other questions no all right thank you thank you thank you and to me that's some action items a big classification of database specialists good evening everyone before you this evening is a reclassification of the database specialist job description since the job was created there have been some additional things added to the position including understanding command script languages such as batch and Powershell which I kind of had to research myself um and database structure and Reporting languages and with these additions the job has become more complicated than initially proposed or presented and so we'd like to update the job description to capture these things as well as reclassify it from a range 71 to a range 76 recognizing
106that this position has some specialized skills all in favor aye thank you for I mean that's that's huge I think thank you for doing that and so we have pulled item 16 A2 correct now on to Business Services we have a public hearing and action for the authorization of conveyance of a sewer easement to North is San Mateo County sanitation district and that is resolution 2022-23 slash seven um Deputy superintendent Ben raphorst president Hada good evening everyone we um at our last meeting on October 18th we the board adopted a resolution of intent to convey the sewer easement for our faculty and staff housing project to allow the sanitation district to continue Sewer Service to that property so a notice of public hearing was posted and now tonight uh the second two steps of this
107process are step two and step three will happen tonight step two is to open a public hearing and then step three would be for the board to adopt the resolution all right I'm going to open the public hearing no comments closing the hearing and now do we have a motion to adopt the resolution so moved second all in favor aye all right and now for our second public hearing and action for the authorization of conveyance of water utility and Public Access easements to the city of Daly City resolution 2022-23-8 so this is uh the exact same process but for different easements uh three easements to be conveyed to the city of Daly City again for our Workforce housing program 705 ceremony for water utility and Public Access okay open a public hearing seeing no one
108will close the hearing and can we get a motion to adopt the resolution so moved second all in favor aye and onto a consideration of future agenda items do we have any now on to the adjournment [Music] we adjourn tonight's meeting in honor of two people Brian Nasi and Sir siram Sirhan Brian NASA came to johsd in August of as part of a group of teachers from the Philippines Brian spent his entire 20-year career at Westmore High School teaching science and being a mentor to the students and all who knew him Brian had a gentle nature and a compassionate soul and will be remembered as a kind-hearted teacher and friend passed away on October 25 2022. he survived by his wife Anisha and their two children Nina and Sean um I would like to comment
109that I and I spoke with Brian at the beginning of the school year and he was so thankful for the Workforce housing and for all the work that we do um his wife Anisha was Miss Anisha to my daughter Carly was her preschool teacher here at Young World and Nina was my son Evan's classmate and green hat so this really hits hard for me and I haven't been able to go over there yet but I will C came to work in gohsd in August of 1990. while at joehsd she served in multiple roles including cafeteria worker health aid receptionist counselor secretary and registrar at Jefferson Westmore and Thornton High Schools she was a wonderful liaison with all students and especially helped with her arabic speaking families until her retirement in 2019. C passed away on
110October 3rd 2022 and is survived by her three children three soon to be four grandchildren and many brothers and sisters we the Jefferson Union High School District Board of Trustees send our condolences to the families friends and hosts of loved ones can we get a motion to adjourn please move to adjourn all in favor aye thank you everyone [Music] thank you [Music]