Restorative Practices
- Building culture and community through Positive Relationships between Students and Staff
- Integrate classroom management with restorative justice
- Using Restorative Practices to work through harm/conflict and rebuild relationships
- Mediation and conflict resolution between students/staff
- Practices used to manage crisis
Partnerships
- BOND- Building Our Nation’s Daughters
- Mission is to engage, mentor and develop Black mothers to cultivate positive mother-daughter relationships, strengthen Black single-mother families, and increase their economic mobility 2 generations at a time.
- Paving the Way Multiservice Institute
- School-based behavioral therapist provided
- Trauma focused professional development provided
- CityBridge Design Fellowship
- Grant provided to build SEL programming
Social Work Internship Site
- GGA hosts social work interns on site
- Supervise interns
- Interns provide additional individual, group counseling and other SEL support as needed
- College Partners
- Catholic University
- Howard University
- George Mason University </ul,/ul>
Sister 2 Sister
- Mentorship program to develop a peer support network and community
- Hosts monthly events to bring mentor and mentee pairs together
- Service activities
- Group outings
- Community building
- Sisterhood events
Indiviidual Counseling
- Behavior support services provided to students with individualized education plans (IEP’s)
- One-on-one weekly counseling sessions for students with identified SEL needs
- Ongoing check-ins and case management with families and caregivers as needed
- Crisis management for students as needed
Group Counseling
- 3-6 Groups per trimester
- 6-8 students participate per group
- 6-8 weeks, 50 minutes per session
- Topics include:
- Coping skills
- Emotional regulation
- Conflict resolution
- Self-esteem
- Empowerment
- Trauma Recovery
