L.A.V.A. Workshops

Climate and Culture Diagnostic Study 

Challenges institutions to take a bold look at the mental, physical, and cultural health of the schools, businesses, churches or sports organizations. 

Listen Linda.

Focuses on team and relationship building with school-based mental health  organizations, administrators, school psychologists, special education teachers,  parents and students.  

Who's your Data?

Emphasizes how to effectively collect and utilize behavioral data to improve student growth. 

• Building Culture and Climate Teams
• Developing Impact Behavioral Teams  
• Creating a functional team oriented  school wide Behavioral Data Base 
• Learning to work effectively with school based mental health organizations
• Using Behavioral Data to Develop practical interventions for educators
• Creating behavioral profiles for Multi-Tier Systems of Support 

NGUZO SABA 

Teaches the importance of using Afrocentric Principles to improve student behavior and minority-based mental health services for students and players. 

Power and Presence

Focuses on interventions and tools to encourage positive social functioning in schools who service inner city students with 90 percent poverty. 

• ​Understanding and appropriately utilizing a student's power and presence in the classroom
• Culturally relevant teaching and communication skills 
• Worldview study and reality recognition   
• Introduction to language barriers 

Race, Rhythm, Reason 

Challenges participants to be vulnerable and open up about race-related issues that may be difficult to face.  

• Reviewing the history of Institutional Racism and it's Impact on education 
• Developing plans of action to improve relationships with colleagues. parents, and students 
• Researching personal paradigms and how they impact efficacy in your  profession  

C.O.A.C.H. To Change 

For Mentor/Coaches who service the indicated populations that need strategies for change and the accreditation to work with students who have experienced adverse childhood experiences.  This is a State Standard Qualification/CEU certified by the Board of Mental Health.

• Building Blocks of Trust and Communication Skills
• Understanding Trauma and Player Personality 
• Character Building Strategies and Self-Identity 
• Culturally Relevant Coaching
• Cultural Competency
• Integrity and Gratitude
• Intro to the brain and engagement response  

From the High Chair to the Electric Chair 

• Discusses the history of prison and its impact on the educational system 
• Highlights similarities in school policy and practice that imitate the prison system 
• Breaks down the process of students leaving the educational system to enter the prison system 
• The history of Restorative Justice and its link to prison education as a form of prevention and a deterrent to crime 
• Explores Restorative Justice and its implementation in Public School Education 
• Reviews Restorative Justice models, strategies, and their effectiveness or ineffectiveness in the school setting