Celebrate #worldmentalhealthday by learning 5 tips on how to support a child's mental health.
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Our children are educationally fragile, in a myriad of ways, and for our CASA kids, it’s the layering of these issues that stack up against them. Being aware of the vulnerabilities is the first step to being able to advocate and provide support around them. Here are just some of the factors that can make our kids’ success at school a taller mountain to climb.
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Learn how to give our kids what they need to succeed as they head back to school.
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Updated suspension data for Virginia schools in 2016 was just released by Legal Aid Justice Center in Charlottesville. We break down the numbers for our region, look at the overall trends, and see how they play out in our area.
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Research has shown over and over again that suspensions worsen educational outcomes for kids—but what do we do with kids with challenging behaviors that are struggling in the classroom environment? Here are 15 ideas to try, from all-school practices, to discipline strategies, to child-specific interventions.
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Find out how exclusionary discipline at school hurts CASA kids, and what they need instead to learn.
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