Ethical Schools

Jason Warwin is the Co-Founder and Associate Executive Director of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, an organization that provides comprehensive, holistic and long-term support services to youth who range in age from eight to twenty-two. Located in Harlem (NYC), Bro/Sis also has programs dedicated to developing Black and Latinx youth in Africa, Latin America and The Caribbean. Jason is a specialist in the design of transformative experiences and we talked about how the Bro/Sis model leads young people to ethical leadership and educational achievement, and makes them an essential part of a solid community that has been fighting oppression for almost 25 years.

We talk with Stephanie Carnes, a trauma-focused bilingual school social worker in a large public high school in New York’s Hudson Valley. Stephanie worked as the lead clinician in a federally-funded shelter program for unaccompanied children from Central America and as a consultant she challenges the districts and agencies with whom she works to re-envision the meaning of an inclusive community. We talk about the necessity to normalize mental health care, how to create safe environments for immigrant children in American schools, and the power of their resilience.

References

Find more about Stephanie on createculturalcompetence.com

Overview

00:00-01:45 Intros

01:46-03:35 How Stephanie began working with immigrants

03:36-06:04 Central American immigrant children’s trauma—in country of origin and through the U.S. border

06:05-08:48 Continued trauma in the U.S.

08:49-12:04 Need for interventions in schools

12:05-16:49 Desahogarse (Unburdening) trauma treatment

16:50-19:10 Post-traumatic growth

19:11-24:37 What schools and communities can do to reduce students’ trauma

24:38-27:41 Working as a consultant to a school

27:42-29:59 Helping educators to cope with secondary trauma

30:00-31:15 “This is doable work.”

31:16-34:00 Outro

Transcript

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We talk with Stephanie Carnes, a trauma-focused bilingual school social worker in a large public high school in New York’s Hudson Valley. Stephanie worked as the lead clinician in a federally-funded shelter program for unaccompanied children from Central America and as a consultant she challenges the districts and agencies with whom she works to re-envision the meaning of an inclusive community. We talk about the necessity to normalize mental health care, how to create safe environments for immigrant children in American schools, and the power of their resilience.

We talk with Stephanie Carnes, a trauma-focused bilingual school social worker in a large public high school in New York’s Hudson Valley. Stephanie worked as the lead clinician in a federally-funded shelter program for unaccompanied children from Central America and as a consultant she challenges the districts and agencies with whom she works to re-envision the meaning of an inclusive community. We talk about the necessity to normalize mental health care, how to create safe environments for immigrant children in American schools, and the power of their resilience.

The post Stephanie Carnes on post-traumatic growth and resilience: Cultural competence and creating safe environments for Central American immigrant children in today’s U.S. first appeared on Ethical Schools.

We talk with Mark Gordon, founder of the Friends and Relationships Course, a program in New Mexico that provides classes for adults with intellectual disabilities who want to learn how to form intimate and other relationships. He talks about what he’s learned over 15 years of teaching sexuality classes, learning along with his son about the ongoing necessity for interdependence. We also discuss society’s failure to welcome and accommodate people with developmental disabilities.

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Overview

00:00-01:20 Intros

01:21-03:45 Friends and Relationships course

03:46-05:27 Extraordinary and ordinary needs

05:28-10:03 Interdependency rather than dependency or independence

10:04-18:04 Roles and relationships; curriculum development

18:05-19:41 Roles of agencies

19:42-21:57 Financing systems

21:58-23:09 Advocacy and social change

23:10-26:50   Ethical community

26:51-27:30 Outro

Transcription

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We talk with Mark Gordon, founder of the Friends and Relationships Course, a program in New Mexico that provides classes for adults with intellectual disabilities who want to learn how to form intimate and other relationships. He talks about what he’s learned over 15 years of teaching sexuality classes, learning along with his son about the ongoing necessity for interdependence. We also discuss society’s failure to welcome and accommodate people with developmental disabilities.

We talk with Zoe Weil, the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education. She talks about providing young people with the knowledge, tools, and motivation to address our pressing challenges in order to transform unsustainable and unjust systems into ones that are humane, healthy, and peaceful.

References

Find more about Zoe and the Institute for Humane Education on humaneeducation.org

Overview

00:00-01:02 Intros

01:03-02:23 What is humane education? What are “solutionaries?’

02:24-09:57 Avoiding false dichotomies; avoiding polarization; looking at who is harmed and who benefits from a problem; finding areas of mutual benefit to overcome harm

09:58-17:18 Creating a classroom environment that encourages solutionary thinking

17:19-22:26 Educating young people to think like solutionaries in whatever field they are interested

22:27-22:38 “What are the issues I care most about?” “What am I good at?” “And what do I love to do?

22:39-25:09 Making the connections to analyze solutions on a solutionary scale

25:10-29:27 MOGO: most good, least harm; applying it to complex systems

29:28-30:30 Outro

Transcription

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References

Listen to our second conversation with Zoe Weil “Creative problem solving: Developing solutionary thinkers”

We talk with Zoe Weil, the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education. She talks about providing young people with the knowledge, tools, and motivation to address our pressing challenges in order to transform unsustainable and unjust systems into ones that are humane, healthy, and peaceful.

We talk with Zoe Weil, the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education. She talks about providing young people with the knowledge, tools, and motivation to address our pressing challenges in order to transform unsustainable and unjust systems into ones that are humane, healthy, and peaceful.

The post Zoe Weil on humane education: The world becomes what we teach first appeared on Ethical Schools.