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Partnership for Resilience: Improving Health and Education for At-Risk Youth Audrey Soglin David Soglin NRCP Conference April 3, 2016

Partnership for Resilience: Improving Health and Education for At-Risk Youth

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Partnership for Resilience: Improving Health and Education for At-Risk Youth  Audrey SoglinDavid SoglinNRCP Conference April 3, 2016

Educational Reform

Address achievement gaps

Laser like focus on teachers, teacher policies and testing tenure evaluation dismissal

No excuses mindset

The Prize by Dale Russakoff

$100 Million dollars to “fix” the Newark Schools and become the education model for the country.

Medical/Health Reform

Productivity / RVU’s

Primary Care Medical Home Medicaid Managed Care Population Health

Percent Illinois children age 6-17 who missed 11 or more days of school due to illness or injury

2003 2007 2011-1201234567

Annie E Casey Foundation, KIDS Count Data Center

Illinois Poverty

Recent data from Illinois State Board of Education says 54% of Illinois children live in poverty. An increase of 2% since 2012.

Children in Poverty in America

The percent of children living in poverty in 2014 is 21.1 percent

In 2014, nearly 6.8 million children – nearly one in 11 – lived in extreme poverty

The youngest children have the highest poverty rates. In 2014, nearly one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers were poor, at the time of greatest brain development.

Children’s Defense Fund

Children’s Defense Fund

Poverty, Food Insecurity, and School

Children’s Defense Fund

Brain Architecture

http://developingchild.harvard.edu/science/key-concepts/brain-architecture/

Toxic Stress

ACE’s – Felitti and Anda, 1998 The most important scientific study on health that

most doctors don’t know about… Adverse childhood experiences are the most basic

cause of health risk behaviors, morbidity, disability, mortality, and healthcare costs.

Toxic Stress includes but goes beyond ACEs

What are ACEs?ABUSEphysicalsexualemotionalNEGLECTemotionalphysical

HOUSEHOLD DYSFUNCTIONdomestic violencesubstance abusemental illnesshousehold member incarceratedmarital separation/divorce of parents

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apzXGEbZht0

Mitigating the Effects of ACEs

The presence of a stable, caring adult

School policies that are “trauma informed”3 Rs Regulate, Relate, Respond

Physical exercise

Resiliency trumps ACEs

The Right Partners

The Right School Districts

Three Areas of Focus

Primary care and wellness

Behavioral Health

Parent engagement

Southland Video

http://www.ieanea.org/2015/05/27/southland-education-and-health-initiative-part-one-an-introduction/

Early Wins

School PhysicalsMedicaid Redetermination

Activities

Mental Health First Aid for Teachers Mindfulness for Teachers Parent University Creating Trauma-Informed Systems conference Aces 101 Health Assessment Dental Van

Intervention Works

Triple P Population Trial Prev Sci (2009) 10:1-12

Know Me, Know My Namehttp://www.ieanea.org/resources/know-me/

Paper Tigers trailer

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Paper Tigers Trailer

http://www.papertigersmovie.com/

“Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.”Bruce Perry, author

Questions

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

Margaret MeadeAudrey Soglin – [email protected] Soglin - [email protected]