I looked up CHAMPS and it is PBIS which we also already use in our classroom. I have also used some of the Character Counts initiative from the state of Iowa discussing being trustworthy, respect, responsibility and fairness. I am going to do a parent meeting in January on the importance of routine for young children. I am hoping that this will help this parent to understand the importance for making sure that some semblance of routine is enforced and that bedtime routines are extremely important. if the other children in the house wake this child, mom states he refuses to go back to bed. Therefore, he comes to us tired and irritable. I know it is not the child's fault and I am not blaming the parent either, but someone needs to take the adult role. I had a child that didn't need much sleep and would find him awake and playing on the floor by the street light outside. I would put him back in bed and lay down with him if necessary. It is just that we need to help the family at this time as well as the child. I thank everyone for the advice and suggestions.
I have our local area education agency getting on board for this child but with all the new changes in the referral processes, the education specialists are now requiring us to come up with interventions to do with these children. That's what we had these specialists for in the past and they have to have data on how the interventions are working or not working. It places a lot more responsibility on general ed teachers to come up with these interventions when it deals with academics, let alone dealing with social/emotional/mental health issues. I was just trying to find some intervention suggestions to start using with this child other than what we have already done. I will go back to your posts and try some of the suggestions that you have all made to me. Thank you again.
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Sue Miller
team leader
Child Development Center
Remsen IA
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Original Message:
Sent: 12-22-2020 04:41 PM
From: Trudy Eby
Subject: Intervention resources for children who need basic needs met
Maria Jordan, CHAMPS sounds like an awesome resource. When I Googled it I got mostly sports oriented responses. Except for this one. Is this the agency you were referring to? Community Health Assoc. of Mountain Plains States
Please and thank you
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Trudy Eby
Early Literacy Specialist
School District of Lancaster
Lancaster PA
Original Message:
Sent: 12-22-2020 03:36 PM
From: Maria Jordan
Subject: Intervention resources for children who need basic needs met
Hello Sue,
Through my experience teaching in Chicago, we frequently worked with student's whose basic needs were not met at home, and oftentimes my students did not have a home. In these situations, we need to realize that what happens outside of school is quite often out of our control. As scary or frustrating as that may be for us as adults, it sounds like you are truly empathizing with your kiddo in just how overwhelming their world could feel like right now. Second Step is a fantastic tool for teaching the social emotional aspect of education, and may help give language to the feelings they experience.
In order to make the world (aka your classroom) feel safer, more predictable, and give them time to rest their amygdala a break, I would encourage you to look into CHAMPS as a positive behavior support for classroom management. CHAMPS can lend insight to strategies for you to design every aspect of your classroom to support the various needs of your children in general, and in doing so, support the one who likely needs the support the most. There are resources within the book/trainings/website, that you can start with in supporting your kiddo who most needs the support, and work backwards to see how you can wrap the support around him throughout your current classroom management strategies. What's great about CHAMPS is that you don't have to use everything the book provides to get what you're looking for...it's pretty exhaustive, and you likely only need every aspect when you have an extremely high needs student population (self-contained/therapeutic classroom)...which means, you only need one book to get most of the help you need.
Best wishes,
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Maria Jordan
ECSE Teacher
Nippersink School District 2
Cary IL
Original Message:
Sent: 12-18-2020 01:24 PM
From: Sue Miller
Subject: Intervention resources for children who need basic needs met
Hi everyone,
I am trying to find a resource(s) to decide on what kind of interventions to use for a student. We have determined that the child's basic needs for proper sleep, intimacy, feeling safe, and sense of connection are not being met at home. So far, we have been trying to get this child to understand that we can't help if we have no idea what he is feeling or what isn't right in the child's world. We have been using Second Step lessons to introduce feelings and how they are felt and expressed through our body, the use of breathing techniques, and trying to help the child work through anger, aggression, and outbursts. We have been patient and nurturing to the child, even when the child is hurting others. We have sent home information to the family on the appropriate amount of sleep for preschoolers. I will do a parent meeting in January on the topic of the importance of structure and routine.
Does anyone have any resources to help us further work through these needs that aren't being met?
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Sue Miller
team leader
Child Development Center
Remsen IA
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