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to our first school safety and climate committee meeting of the Los Angeles Unified Board of Education say that 10 times fast um of 2025 I'm so happy to be back my First St back from maternity leave and to have a couple of new board members with us and committee members so
we're actually going to start with some introductions so everyone can get comfortable with uh who we are um I'll start with just you know who I am and the purpose of this committee so I'm torti Franklin I get to represent board district 7 which is South Los Angeles through the harbor area where I was a
kid and teacher um an advocate before joining the board and starting my second term this past December we created this committee really to dig into Data we've had aot lot of questions from the community about what's happening with school culture and climate and so we always look at data and appreciate the
staff who prepares that for us we dig into the current state of affairs around school culture and climate and we think about opportunities for growth opportunities for improvement and so we have board members District staff community members to really think collectively about how to improve the experience of students staff families
community members around safety and climate um we have looked at issues around safe passages and we'll get a little bit of an update from the team on that um we've talked about a lot of various incidents related uh to student mental health and we'll talk a little bit about that today as well violence on
campus around campus um physical safety that we see emotional safety that we feel and we'll dig more into that topic a little bit today um for those of you who weren't here in the fall we talked a lot about incidents on campus and around campus physical incidents like fights um
but today is really digging more into the emotional side of things and we'll talk about the presentation in just a minute um so as we go around the de I'd love for everyone to introduce yourself your name your role or organization um and maybe just one hope you have for the committee this year if there's something that brought you to this place that
keeps you in this place um just briefly if you could could share that and we'll start with our new board members if that's okay Miss nuil we'll start down with you yes I am sure L Hy nubil I am Mommy to Isaiah and emanel I'll never forget that um and the board member for
district one which uh born in raised in that board district and just great to be able to serve uh in the area of South La and also I guess my hope um is unity in our community so that's my hope love
that thank you here you go hi my name is Carla Grio I am uh I always say I'm a teacher I'm a special education teacher I taught for uh 20 years I was also a community school coordinator and now I am serving Board
District 5 and I'm thrilled to be here love the mission and the vision of this committee uh joy and wellness is my hope for our students and for our communities I think that when we feel that then we
are more able to learn and to get knowledge and to grow and I want to I want our district to be the place where children are happy and excited to come and learn and to be curious and that all of our educators just uh continue to
nurture that from eec all the way up to uh our adult ed because they need that as well so that is my hope I'm very excited to be here and uh thank you for allowing me to be part of this good afternoon everyone Joel ciso
is executive director for student mental health and wellness Services here at La USD started off as a PSW long time ago at Fremont High School and then over to Washington prep and you know kind of work to myself over to the valley and just really fortunate to be here um hope
and dream I joy and wellness is what I do for a living and that's part of my charge and you'll hear about it today but I think also collaboration and partnership uh I'm a big believer in that and making sure not only internally but externally too I think that's really
important good afternoon folks Andre Chay chief of school operations uh a lifer with the district I'm in my 27th year at heart I will always be a kindergarten teacher which is where I started out over at Queen an elementary uh kind of tucked behind La high for those of you that know the area I'm also
a District Parent uh my twin girls are in fourth grade at one of our schools in the valley so obviously very very invested in our district in a number of ways uh my hope would be around coherence I I think we have a lot of systems in place as a district around
safety uh and every level safety physical safety soci emotional safety I think sometimes where there's some work to be done is having all of those systems talk to each other and connect with each other and making them available to our families my name is Michael McAn I'm the executive officer of the board of Los
Angeles Unified School District Board of Education um and I just help keep the trains on the track so I don't do much in terms of policy and stuff but I'm here to help first timer hi hi everyone I'm arthy Harper from the Los Angeles County Office of violence prevention which is housed in our Los Angeles County
Department of Public Health um I'm a native East coaster starting my career in Youth Development and education in Baltimore and DC and now I'm a permanent West coaster love it out here um and in our office we do a lot of work around
centering public health approach to violence prevention campus safety Community safety so really my um hope for um contributing to this group would be to see where we can bring in County resources for alignment and support to
the good work that's already happening in the district and any gaps that we can serve to assist with hello everyone I'm KVA co-executive director of kadre which is Community Asset development redefining education I'm really here carrying the voices of
our black and brown South parent members and i' say my hope is for schools to be more robust and healing spaces that are informed by our parents and our students and I'm I'm also I'm I'm like
Co said I'm I'm bringing in my fifth grade teacher s after doing that for five years I love that I feel like I got to learn a little bit more about you all too so thanks for sharing your personal stories how you got here and I'm glad we ended on healing from from kadre because today really is about that social
emotional perspective uh about a year and a half ago the board passed a resolution around community-based safety and the team has really run with that so we're going to start our first presentation today as we often do with some data in the district uh about how we're doing uh broadly about school culture and climate but
particularly as it relates to some of our um community- based uh approaches as well so I'll turn it over to Mr Chon uh invite the committee members to ask questions at the end of the presentation great thank you so much uh board member Ortiz Franklin and thank you again to the committee uh I'm going to be one of a series of speakers as far
as our presentation today so I would humbly ask that we hold our questions to the very end and then of course speakers can come back up as needed uh so as board member Ortiz Franklin uh alluded to I'll be starting us off with some
quick but very critical data to our work uh so we have a number of acronyms across a district that are very similar to each other so sometimes we talk about a community based safety plan and we also have a community based safety pilot and in fact it's it's been in operation now
for at least three uh going on four years so we've actually changed the name it's a communitybased safety program now because when I think pilot I think something that we're going to do for a year or to and then kind of make decisions based on how it goes this is now something that's embedded into our work so when I talk about the
community-based safety program what I'm talking about is one critical component under Bap under the black student achievement plan as you may recall under Bap there's a budget of approximately 14 some odd million per year that's set aside specifically for these
community-based safety programs these are vendor provided safety programs that support our schools directly now there are four total there's safe passage there's peace building there's Community Development there's Community Partnership Community
Partnership is governed directly by our folks in Bap so I'm not really going to be talk going to be talking about that one today I'm going to be focusing on the three that uh essentially division of school operations kind of oversees with again those Bap dollars so for us the three programs are safe passage
peace building and Community Development the one that usually historically gets the most attention is safe passage so what is safe passage safe passage again is a vendor provided program where you have individuals that are on the perimeter of a School site that are helping our students to get to and from
school safely usually you know that when when I go and I talk to kids about them they'll they'll you know mention them or or refer to them as the people in the bright jackets because a lot of times our folks will have a very bright jacket so that they stand out um their specific
location on the perimeter of Campus varies as part of the development process here we ask the vendor to meet with the specific principle so they can make decisions around where they need to be placed the reason I emphasize that is because you may have schools where the
safe passage providers are directly on the perimeter of the site because again the principal in conjunction with the vendor made the decision that that's where the service is most needed on the other hand we have other schools where you may have a vendor as far out as two or three blocks from the school because
again the decision made by the principal and the vendor was that that's where the service was most needed uh peace building again is an internal program and what I mean by that is it's on campus and what peace building does is it it teaches our students uh conflict
resolution skills the hope here and I say this as a former Elementary principle is that every time students have a conflict they don't necessarily have to come to an adult to resolve the conflict for them that they build up their own skill set so that at a certain level at a certain degree they can have a conversation with each other what you
just did made me feel this way well I certainly did not mean to make you feel that way and so on that kind of a dialogue right and the last one is Community Development again that also happens on campus so again safe passage off- campus peace building Community
Development on Campus Community Development is around teaching our students how to advocate for themselves outside of the proverbial Four Walls of our school so in other words how can students become civically engaged become more active in their communities if there's a cause that they believe in
whether it's around uh social justice Equity maybe something as relatively simple as recycling programs how they can get involved in those things and again become advocates in the community can we go back to that thank you where I really want to Mark our success here is
that when we look back just two years ago to 2223 we had literally a handful of these programs I.E fewer than five when I first came into my current position I remember asking some of our Community Partners and saying where can I go see safe passage in action so that I can
actually see it and at that time I went and visited dorsy high school because they had the program and so on but we literally had about I want to say about four of those programs in the two years since as you can see we've we've built this program out the dollars have always been allocated as part of Bap but as we
all know as Leaders there's a big difference between allocation and actual execution so what we're showing here again is how many programs we have in place at our Bap group one schools and just to to Center us we have uh 52 total
Bap group one schools out of those 52 43 have at least one of these programs I emphasize at least one because some schools actually have all three they'll have safe passage peace building and Community Development of our 62 Bap group two schools exactly half have one
of these programs 31 schools and even though by sort of the proverbial letter of the law in terms of the Bap dollars the dollars are for group one and group two working with Dr Whitman Dr Brandy and his team we did you know kind of stretch stretch those dollars to also assist at some of our
group three schools so we have about nine schools there and in fact and this is the last piece I'll say on the funding piece uh some of you may recall that last year there was an allocation of about three some odd million dollars that were unspent LPD dollars these were
school police officer positions that were essentially vacant so instead of letting the dollars kind of sit their fallow we brought them over under the umbrella of cbsp and we're using that to fund these same kind of programs primarily safe passage almost exclusively safe passage for non Bap
group one two or three schools so essentially the group four schools because as we all know every single School in the district is a BAP school it's just a matter of group one group two group three or group four Okay so we've been able to extend that program out so again I I I think the numbers you
know particularly given where we were a couple of years ago uh really kind of speak for themselves we have 64 safe passage programs 47 peace building uh 15 uh Community Development those are the programs that have been requested but again it's really about execution so
where I want to really take us is to the 115 active programs that we have so again if you go to those schools you can actually see those programs it's not just a funding line it's not just an allocation it's a program that's in
action now where I want to take us next and this this kind of dovetails with the conversation that uh one of the board members and I were having right before our meeting started is around our grid program gang reduction Youth Development it's a program under the city of La we had a partnership for a very long time as a
district with City of La around grid uh like many things right around covid time the theou that we had essentially expired and it wasn't uh it wasn't put back in place well I'm happy to report that as of this past summer uh it is now
back in place we have a new 5-year with grid what this allows us to do is again to lean in whenever we have issues at schools where we believe there's some intersectionality around gang activity kids that maybe are already Affiliated kids that you know unfortunately are on the way to being Affiliated we can have
folks that have the expertise in the room if you will actually come to the schools do prevention programs education programs they'll also do short-term safe passage as needed uh there'll be a presence on campus pretty much anytime
this has become sort of a default Playbook pretty much anytime that we have an incident on a school campus that relates to potential gang activity grid is part of sort of the the package of support that we send I I I suspect that many of our
folks here are very familiar with grid so I'm not going to spend too much time here but again this is essentially their playbook for lack of a better term in terms of how they address uh concerns in the community where we spend most of our time with them is really around obviously prevention and intervention
right you know talking to our youth connecting with our kids where you know a teacher an administrator as well intentioned as they may be may not be able to have that level of connection with a student or as somebody who may have at some point in their life been in that
[Music] same lifestyle for lack of a better term may be able to have more credibility with that youth uh so basically grid is not an organization to itself it's sort of an umbrella there's 24 uh partnership agencies that fall under grid each of
them have de different Geographic alignments around the district um where we're having a little bit of a challenge is in the north area in the valley there just aren't as many providers in that area as there are in some of our others uh but again grid has been you know a
very very good partner I know we also have you know folks here from ovp were were actually in active dialogue with ovp around a very similar mou for our areas of La unified that are not part of City of La unincorporated other smaller municipalities so we hope to have much
the same uh optionality in those areas and with that I'm going to hand off uh to Mr Paul Gonzalez who is one of our Mighty leaders around PBIS and the discipline Foundation policy good afternoon everyone my first
time up here wow feels really strange so I was reflecting I was thinking my word as well I'm real big on relationships I want to throw that out there so thank you for the opportunity to share so as you all know um my name is Paul Gonzalez with PBS and restorative practices we updated the discipline
Foundation policy in November of 2022 policy 133307 and I don't want to take up too much time explain the actual policy in itself I just want to point out a few key updates within that policy in the policy we really use the language around
positive behavior intervention supports and restorative practices because the old policy didn't really outline that language right we also included the triangle that you see there it's a multi-tier system of supports within that multi-tiered system of Port
supports I'm sorry we outline the supports that align to a PBS and restorative practice framework so we know and Andre says this all this time we need to ensure that not just our students but all our schools are receiving that tier one acade uh
behavioral support are we checking in with those students on a regul basis are we providing opportunities to build community right just like you all did here right are we using that affirming language are we providing opportunities to provide 4 to one right four positive interactions to one corrective is that
happening with intentionality and we know that our students are going to need a little more support and we're have students are going to continue to need a little more support but we need to have those systems in place of support with that being said we continue to provide that strong tier one support to our youth right the other significant change
within the policy is we now are utilizing the TFI the tiered Fidelity inventory it is a nationally recognized tool that really um is a way we we monitor the implementation of PBIS in our district right again it is a
national recognized tune that aligns beautifully to a multi-tier system of support because it does connect to tier one tier two and tier three and then lastly one of the other uh items I like to address in the policy update is our attachment C alternatives to suspension
that's a big one because it really takes a look at what can we do to support our students in the event of a suspension right do we provide opportunities to just dialogue do we have someone to the student can can uh peer conference with right do we have peer mentoring programs
do we have a safe place where our students can go and calm down in those situations when when harm does occur do we have the opportunity to actually bring those students together and have a harm Circle right those are all
Alternatives suspension but with that uh uh attachment C we also included the piece of self-awareness adult self-awareness because before we actually address our students we need to make sure that us as the adults are well right and then we also include that
piece about let's make sure our students have their basic needs taken care of before we actually address them as well so I just wanted to touch on that a bit uh next slide when we really think about the policy in itself this is not just oh this is Carlos's responsibility
oh this is Joel's responsibility oh this is no what this diagram really tells us is this is a community responsibility right everyone from the school site to the regions to here centrally it is our responsibility to create create these
environments that are supportive that are inclusive that are safe for our students right it is our responsibility so with that being said we do have systems of support advisors throughout the district that do support with the implementation
of PBIS and restorative practices and with that I do want to just speak a little bit about some of the things that they do on a weekly basis we provide uh our form of communication and mass out to our district is through our schooly group we have a many many many members
on that group so we really use it to really push the work that we do so weekly we provide these uh um I'm sorry uh social emotional well-being activities around the activities of mindful money gratitudes and so forth these are meant to support the learning
in the classroom we provide two weekly Community Building circles those are there ready to go for our teachers we provide weekly morning announcement scripts connected again to our mindful Monte grage Friday Tuesday Wellness Wednesday thoughtful Thursday and fun
Friday additionally we promote monthly checkins and checkouts ready to go for our teachers right to ensure again we wanted to make practical tools that our teachers can utilize on a regular basis and among that we have a hodge podge of
other resources on that so along those lines as well our sources go out it is not about just getting up there and providing a PD on a Tuesday right they really think out the box how can I get to the school how can I get to a group of teachers and so forth so they're out
there during cycle motor time in our elementary schools with grade levels right they're out there their middle school and high schools during these uh class uh when teachers have free periods right they're out there whenever they can to provide these opportunities and these opportunities for improvement
these opportunities for learning aren't just for a certificated staff there also for our um classified staff as well as for our families we provide four four modules for our families and the connection there is what we are expecting that our teachers to do at our school sites and I'm going to take that
back not just our teachers but all stakeholders at our school site we want to mimic that with our families as well right we want to provide our families with the same Tools around PBI as and restorative practices that they can utilize at home as well so let's take a look at a little
bit of uh data around suspension so as we can take a look here um in two right currently right now we are at um 1,352 suspension event events that takes us to our single student suspension rate of
0.14 our strategic goal around joy and wellness our metric is uh 0.23 for this Academic School year right so when we really look at that data last year just to kind of give you a reflection of where we're at last year we were at this
time this data reflects back to uh December of 24 so last year as of December 23 we were at .19 so we're actually a little bit ahead um we're working towards that and I guess it has to do a lot with just the wonderful work that's happening at our school sites
right um when we get in explain a little bit more specifics of the categories of data right category one suspensions principles of zero discretion that's like a mandatory suspension there right and you can see there we have a number of uh 56 Cate or one suspensions out as
of December of 24 then we have our category tws where principles have a little more discretion right they could say okay well you know what let's utilize some of these Alternatives suspension let's work with these students right let's create this form of a check in and check out to regularly support this student we
currently have 110 when we move over to this last slide here these are our Category 3 suspension these are the suspensions that are School sites have the more most discretion but yet they make make up a largest portion of our suspensions
that's over um 1,186 suspensions at this point so again I share this information we are ahead of the game we uh last year at this point we were at H where are my notes one right around 1,600 so we are a little bit ahead and I
want to contribute that just to a lot of the supports that the schools are doing right implementing these practices I want to also uh provide the support with the every school safe this year every school watchs the module every family
every school every teacher every student watchs the module of creating welcoming environments in November every school every family every student watched the module on restorative practices and um deescalation that November module went
in line with Mr Chate mentioned earlier about conflict resolution we explicitly have in our district now rainbow rounds restorative rainbows and rainbow rounds they're all over the students all over the school district now we've actually
had schools that now have ambassadors student ambassadors are running the sort of rounds and it's to the point of we're showing empathy we're having understanding of I feel sad when you do this to me oh I hear that you feel sad
right so it's this conversation we're teaching the skills the students the skills of how to respond to conflict using our words of opposed to using our fists right so with that being said I do want to end with this we know that the best form of intervention is prevention
so we must continue to ensure that our schools are implementing t one supports on a regular basis with Fidelity and it's not just the responsibility of just a school climate Advocate or a restorativ teacher or a Dean it's actually everyone's responsibility thank
you you know and I will hand it off to my friend my good friend r and our new uh director of pupil service and attendance thank you good afternoon everyone uh Rudy Gomez as Paul mentioned Rudy Gomez um director for people services and attendance uh former administrative
coordinator uh for pupil service and attendance in region South um just wanted to start off with um right off the top of my you know uh my head is a mere fact that um right now attendance is we're going to move with her Mercy when it comes down to attendance before
we go on to our slides because we know that there's a need so when we think about um our strategic plans and our measures of success um and where we made the the tremendous gains in 2324 compared to where we are at now
what you see before you is we're still making steady gains when you take a look at TK through five there's been a decrease of again 3% grades 6 through eight we're out of 4% and then of course for 9 through 12 when you compare it to
where we are at now looking at cumulative attendance rates from August to uh February 14th uh high school has been at a 9% decrease so although we've been making steady gains again compared to last year this time around uh we're
going to continue to utilize the I attend 2.0 initiative uh move with urgency to ensure that our families know that we are here to uh fully support them and of course to continue to message to our families that our schools are the safest place to be at so we're
going to we're going to recognize we're going to learn from attendance teams we're going to increase personalized Outreach and interventions we're going to uh increase our family engagement with uh workshops topics um and then of course we're going to strengthen our
Partnerships with Community organizations we're also going to continue to provide resources to our families because of the climate that we find ourselves in we're going to continue to hold those workshops so that our parents know their rights and then of course again reiterating the messages
that school is the safest place to be at so uh through the I 10 2.0 we will move with urgency something to share when you look at the cumulative attendance rates um if you notice always utilizing the 17 18 Baseline data uh compared to where uh
we are at now in the 2425 school year uh we have been about three uh two to 3% um below of where we are at so we are making strong gains when it comes down to a cumulative attendance rates at this
point when it comes down to our chronic attendance absence rates even though we know the need is there if you look at always looking at our 17 18 as our Baseline data if you compare the 22 to 23 to the
2425 there's been some months that we've had where they've have had 3 to 14% decrease in chronic absences so we are we are steady at this point but again even more so because of what we know we have to move with intentionality we have
to make sure that our communities knows that we our communities know that we are here to support and more so uh be that voice for our students and really amp up uh student engagement with that said I'm going to go ahead and pass pass it along
with to uh Dr Jason over hrd thank you very much and good afternoon everybody here we go uh so my name is Judy Chason and you she her pronouns and I'm with the office of human relations diversity and Equity um we have the
fortunate job of really looking at what what contributes to safe and affirming learning and working environments so we try to create environments that are welcoming and affirming for student staff and families um we kind of work outside the textbook system because
we're in school operations so we're not in instruction so we're People to People the two main prongs of our work are lgbtq and bullying so I'll briefly go through what we how we're supporting our
lgbtq students so as you see there are oh my goodness there's so much that we do in our little small and mighty team we have trainings and supports that we offer for staff and for families we have student clubs there student support
groups and family support groups we have the liaison program that we are building in which there are liaison at every well many campuses on many campuses and they act kind of as a go between between our offices and their schools um we offer
series of events throughout the year training opportunities large scale ones for all personnel and staff to come to our you must visit our our website they call it my Pinterest page there are so many resources um and sections on there
for student staff and families um how they can be supportive of lgbtq plus students that's just one little piece of the website there's a lot of resources on there for right now like how to do deal with conflict how to deal with current events how do you talk about war
um with your child so many things that are there for our families we're fortunate to work with collaborators across the city because nobody can do this work alone so we have our friends in LAPD LA county and um LA City humans
relations div divisions we have um the um also one for La unified and we sponsor a lot of events coming up is National Coming Out day that's I'm Excuse me national day of reading which is tomorrow October October 10th mark your calendar will be
our event in bodry and that is National Coming Out day which is a huge event for us and of course we work with government relations on proposed and current legislation as well so try to stay on top of things so we our other prong is on
bullying prevention and response and we look at P bullying prevent the more that we can prevent bullying the way that we can promote positive and caring attitudes among students the less bullying that we're going to have um so we do that by one uh series of trainings
that we have it's called everybody belongs we roll that out to schools so that they can have classroom lessons a series of five classroom lessons on how to be respectful and caring to one another again we have our events we have the commission we are always um
populating resources sharing them with the schools we do case consult try to stay very actively involved with all of our schools so that's kind of it in a nutshell we have brought you a little something so in this envelope each of
you gets a badge U out for safe schools badge with a lapel pin because we know that our students need us to be loud thank you what a great way to end Judy thank you and with presents uh so I
think Joel snaro is going to pick it up from here I think we're going to pause for a question yeah we paing for questions but that was really comprehensive very thorough thank you to the entire Ops Team um and all of the connections with attendance and human relations um we are going to get some School site presentations so I know often when we talk the macro we have
questions about what does this look like at a school site so that will be the next presentation um but for this one would love to open it up to my committee members for maybe 10 15 minutes of Q&A with the team on the data you received or any big questions about the districtwide approach uh before we go to
the the school Level side so any of my colleagues want to get us started they covered everything too thoroughly Mr V go ahead um I don't know if it's a specific question right now but it's more of a comment I think a question will emerge
somewhere but primarily on the discipline Foundation policy I'm I'm glad um Paul said that with the suspensions you're ahead of of the game but I'm still remembering our our conversation in our September committee meeting where of the top 10 suspending
schools in the district five of those are in South Los Angeles so I'd love to get a deeper understanding of what's happening with suspensions in South La because it's a grave concern to our parent members
um the other thing that's our our parents have brought to our attention our our Carter parents monitor schools is that um too they feel like too much attention is being spent on tier one interventions
where where the suspensions are truly prevented in tier three and when we read District materials it's it feels the impression we're getting is that there's too much of a focus on tier one which we find are definitely valuable
but suspensions in South La are are prevented with increased tier three training for for for Community for staff and we're worried that's that's not being uh that's not as robust as it should be based on last year's suspension
data uh and next just get I know maybe I should save it for the next piece but um our parents tell us that the restorative practices that your your your mindful Mondays aren't getting to
fully to the engagement of parents uh we have a strong Collective of parmly parents and they've found a very challenging navigating the administration right now they feel there's some sort of retaliation they feel very very dismissed and and that restorative
practice that seems to be really robust I'm glad you you brought in that the mindfulness is bring coming to the the staff it hasn't fully reached parents at least at that specific school right now so thank you thank you yeah I'll invite you to respond Paul but I'll also say I I
forgot to say My Hope for this committee uh and Carlo you reminded me of it is is really Solutions and that's one of the things I really appreciate from kadre is the parent perspective and the solutions orientation and so um I might also invite a a followup connection directly between families um and either District
staff or School staff whatever might be appropriate we'd love to help facilitate some of that Paula I'll let you respond but Carlos definitely appreciate the voice of parents coming through so there's three questions right so yeah uh looks like the first one was the
top 10 suspensions in our district and you mentioned that the of those top 10 fivr in South La um not sure that we shared that information um we because many of the are in actually our North Region and we actually have put in a a
system where we began to approach those schools a systematic system to really support and provide additional support to those schools so I could follow up with you uh with any particular schools but based on the data that we shared in the
past those schools are in majority of them are in the north and west yeah you didn't share that data but we pulled the data from the uh Department of Education so okay the data that we have that we share is from open
data so I mean we I spoke to on this in September and yeah the numbers are accurate unfortunately Paul okay I will look into that okay I we'll look into those schools in South appreciate that and I know you have two more questions but that also reminds me for the team maybe Mr Chate and uh Dr web I see you here too as well let's do a followup on
the public data and make sure our numbers are lining up I know that was part of our resolution uh with the community based safety is that monthly data so we want to make sure we're um being clear in our our public data so or display of data so thanks Paul and maybe quickly on the last two and then we'll jump to my colleagues and I missed the tier one tier
three um from our perspective on the ground it feels like there's two to much attention being placed on tier one and not enough enough on tier three and we all know collectively that the preventions are susp are prevented when tier three is a more robust intervention
process I could agree uh but we need to ensure that those tier one system in place I want to come to school when I feel supported validated trusted by a weling adult we heard from attendance right our attendance improves when students feel welcome and supported on
campuses so so that being said we must put those systems in place but schools do have when we take a look at our our our tiered Fidelity inventory schools do have systems in place around supporting tier two schools do have systems around supporting tier three right students
have have to have access to those supports as well but they need to really systemize the systems in place at the school site I'm hope I'm making sense absolutely I'm in complete agreement with you but we're also looking at it as a from a 10-year
perspective of this policy and Beyond if we go back to 07 when we started bringing in restorative practices I do Val we value tier one we value tier two we're not saying Go away from those absolutely not we just do not feel there's enough
attention being placed in tier three especially in light of the highest suspending schools in the district are based in South Los Angeles okay we can look into that thank you and then the last one around Harmony schools at the at Harmony specifically
or parmy Elementary School parmy okay uh the the mindfulness that you're you're bringing to the students and you share that you've incorporated into the staff this year I appreciate it highly it's it's not that mindfulness that wellness and
engagement and level of respect and understanding is not being fully extended to the parents okay I can connect with a system of support that's that uh provides support or assigned to support the school and we can bring that to the school definitely thanks and we'll help follow up since it's a bd7
school so much appreciation uh any other questions for my colleagues Miss Duo I did have a question uh you mentioned the system support advisors um are those support advisors distributed by District by school how do um we account for our
system support advisor so we have a number of system of support districtwide those Systema support advisers support 30 to 35 schools in our district so every school does receive support um anywhere between three to five hours of support a week but Evan
flow there may be months that some schools receive you know 8 10 hours and then there's months where they may not go to that school so it just kind of EV and flow and that support can be from a PD it can be from a training of certificated staff families teachers it
can be with a consultation a a a classroom observation a followup support with uh classroom management it could be from uh a student who right we need Behavior concerns with a student who so it's a wide range of support that they
do provide and so the each Local District has or there just those 30 are dispersed throughout so so we we actually have um let me do the number in my head right now uh 40
43 43 districtwide that cover all schools in our district and then you talked about and kind of to what caros point about uh the implementation for tier one tier two how
are we monitoring the Fidelity because I me you mentioned that how is it monitored and how do you get feedback or reports on each location that's a great question so they utilize a tiered Fidelity inventory that is in tool that's outlined in the discipline
Foundation policy every school in our district in the fall and spring must submit right now we did this year we're doing tier one scores we have many of our schools that do submit tier two and tier three scores as well but for the rec the the requirement is to submit
tier one scores and two goals that they want to focus on now schools also have the opportunity to with the tiered uh tiered inventory also uh apply for State recognition once they do that it's a different process that they need to they
submitting the scores plus some additional work you give us a little example of what the scores look like what what some of the criteria within this score so that we kind of there's 15 features in tier one so that'd be more extensive I could provide that at a later time we
could bring the breakdown because we do have that information so we could we could provide that I off the top of my head I know I know that 100% of our schools submitted in fall so we're we're we're good there but I could bring down the breakdown yeah I think even a board informative might be helpful on that I know this has come up
several times just how are schools doing not just that they completed it but how are they actually doing um I don't know if the team is I don't think we've done reive that in the past and you all wouldn't know yet because you're new to the board um but that would be really helpful for us to see where our own schools are with that so thanks yep that would be
great and I think someone mentioned about the rainbow rounds I did and how do you get that who has it who doesn't have it is that the same process rainbow rounds were and rainbow rounds were submitted I'm sorry sent to
all schools they received them so they're Pro if the schools do not have them they're probably somewhere in the I'm going to guess inside the sa's back of her desk or someone's office they have them there and again our systems of support advisor are more than happy to go out there and train staff I'm talking
from noon supervision Aid to T to clerical uh clerical staff noon supervision staff teachers and so forth students as well like I said some schools are starting with ambassadors thank you Miss g go yes um I have I don't know
if it's for you or for actually know for the yeah um for you I think um regarding uh the Category 3 you talked about suspensions right category three suspensions and you said that it's up to
the the principal's discretion um is there a menu or suggested um alternatives to suspension when they do that we do I spoke a little bit about that within our policy we updated attachment C that is our alternatives to
suspension so it gives School sites other options to suspending so is it do we have a restorative conferences with that student we uiz a restorative questions do we put students on a behavior contract of some sort right is there a py mentoring program do we do we
offer SEO mini module lessons right so they have a hodge pod of of supports that they could go ahead and provide and what support do does the staff get either whoever is implementing this be it the the administrator or counseling
staff or RJ teacher what support do they get with in terms of being able to implement some of these things you just described many of the stuff has done through our systems of support advisor we work very closely with our psws some of our biggest fans around the implementation of PBS and restorative
practices um like I said we've trained certificated and classified staff as well so so a school would have to reach out to you if they don't have a a PSW if it's Ane a small Elementary School with just the principal if the school needs
support definitely reach out to lower reach out to me and I will get him in contact with a system of support advisor that can okay help them and then just to tag on what he was mentioning about parents um not uh the the tier one supports not
extended to families um so do the socias work with families as well do they do trainings for families on campus like AB absolutely we uh have a four we have four modules that are directly geared to support families and it aligns closely
to the work that we provide to the student to the school site same type of training we just give them the same type of strategies that they could support their students at home so we have a connection right of what's being expected at home to align to what uh families can support their students at
and are there any moments when uh the staff and the families do one together like say a community building Circle or oh not that I'm aware of at this time but that's a wonderful yeah okay all right thank you that's what I
have for now the wheel's turning I see it um I think yeah go for I think this might be for Rudy um it's related to slide 14 where you presented around chronic absenteeism rates and as you mentioned there were
some months where there's some really marked decreases um in the rates specifically looking at between the school year of 2022 23 and 23 24 like November December January April those are some marked declines and I was
curious if you all had identified any factors that may have contributed to those MA those major declines in in an effort to maybe replicate or expand what's working and uh yes of course uh we have uh through the attendance teams
that are in place right now with our school sites we are tapping into them to be able to touch upon best practices as we know that every school Community differs and so we continue to learn and we continue to grow in that sense uh tapping into some of strategies that might work where we can implement across
the board yes did you have thing thank you okay if not thanks yeah yeah go for it to the gentleman I forgot I'm sorry um Mr Paul what's his name Mr Gonzalez um yeah so going back to that list I'm still trying
to visualize how it happens when somebody a student does something and then the the person in charge goes to the list that has the the alternatives to suspension are there any suggestions for what to try first depending on the
incident and then who chooses that uh alter you bring up wonderful questions then very valid questions again the School site is the best equipped to support that student right they they should know the or they should be the ones that really know their student specific needs what may specifically
work for that student right so that student might just mean hey Paul you're that caring adult can I just take some time with with you and do a quick check in check out on a regular basis I'm going to check in with you at the beginning of the day I'm going to check in you the middle of the day and I'm going to check out with you at the end of the day and that might work for that
specific student but guess what hoel might need a little bit more intensive right where you know what we need to put you on a little Behavior contract right or you know what we need some mini lessons that's what's best for my friend Rudy right so it's it very specific towards the specific needs of
each individual child we know that each student is different right so it's it's having flows with each specific student and it sounds like they make the decision there's a menu but then you choose correct which way to go correct we just offered these Alternatives but really what's Critical with that too and
I we included it purposely into the policy is that whole idea of self-awareness right because we know that oftentimes we may even trigger a situation more as an adult as we're going out to support so my taking time to just am I well before I go out and support that student and if I'm not do I
have a backup plan to say hey hey hoel can you go out instead I'm just not at my best today and I'm going to begin by checking in with that suit and making sure that did you eat is everything cool at home right those basic needs to be in place before we even get to let's do a
mini module on building empathy or let me provide you a c space in the in their classroom or in the dean's it seems like that would have to be part of the school culture part of what you speak to the school community at the beginning of the year this is it
Al the support you're absolutely correct at Alliance of support within the teered Fidelity inventory when the PB means meets I'm sorry regularly those are things that they can outline as supports that need be correct all right thank
you I had one question for uh Mr chap when we talked about grid uh the comprehension strategy their partnership with us and our CBO partners are they providing um training for our partners as well or
they're just separate entities if by Partners you mean our external Partners like the folks that do the cbsp work the vendor provided there is some intersectionality in fact a lot of the vendors that work for grid also work for us are they directly providing
training to uh to baby you know and those kinds of organizations no not explicitly okay um and then with this and you shared a map um for the grid zones and I know
there's probably one out there for clarification because I know there's obviously gangs all over Los Angeles born and raised here so I know uh overlapping so that when we have our partners that they're aware of these entities or their maps that show the
crosssection of where these gang families are very much so so first of all we as a district maintain internal awareness of the gangs that are active within each area so we have that without even asking anybody else for it to be very clear but GD of course also has
that as well right and that's also why for example when we look at grid they have specific Partners within their 24 suod agencies for each area of the city because they know that for example sending you know a certain organization
out to the Northeast Valley to the Panorama area to have a conversation with certain kids may not be as effective if the person having the conversation is from South La or vice versa right even though they may have some common background it's not going to be as effective correct and then are
with the agencies that are there are they paired up as well with some of the agencies that we are um bringing in for the programs that we're providing so yes so when we support our schools and this is the conversation I was having earlier with uh with board member Diego our
programs for example around safe passage are sustained the entire year grid can and does on a regular basis help us out with an augmentation of for example safe passage support for a week or two depending on what's going on with a school one of the first things that we do when we do ask grid to lean in on a
school is to connect them with the the key parties administration at the school the safe passage provider whoever else they need to know uh need to connect with to know what's actually going on we don't make any assump assumptions okay all right thank you thank you let's give
a round of applause to the team and the questions appreciate you all uh and we'll invite our our next presentation to come on down and get started we have uh one school joining us online Maya and I think Drew is with us in the house uh very excited to hear directly from school sites um how we're
working with our Wellness supports and mental health programs um and I just want to remind folks as you all are getting set up to miss Nu's question we had a a bit more of a presentation from grid last semester and so if you go to the Boe lusd.net site or lusd.org bd7 we have all of the materials from
the fall semester as well and we can share that with your offices since you're coming on this semester um but let's turn it over to our second presentation U Mr SOS let's take it away yes good afternoon again uh Joel cisos uh executive director with student mental health and wellness Services I
appreciate so much also just the amount of diversity because I was I heard my name called hoel Joel Mr cetto so so appreciative it just embodies our district and our community um so thankful to be here and share uh some of
the great work that our psws and our uh student family Navigators and all of the folks that make up our uh student mental health and wellness Services Branch I want to start by just saying that today we will hear from two very specific School sites uh so I'll try to get
through my information as uh as quickly as possible because I want to make sure they have the opportunity to present the information they have uh but through this presentation I will cover three essentially three things first kind of provide some quick overview around our various departments two talk about some of the data that we
that guides our practice and three some of the items that we're working and initiatives and that we're really excited to share so with that uh as a school district we have built a comprehensive multi-tiered approach for mental health and wellness and as you
can see in this slide essentially we have our branches three uh main departments the first being School mental health all of you are pretty much familiar with our psws but just in total we have over 750 psychiatric social workers across uh
our school district they are integrating Mental Health Care into our schools uh making sure that it's accessible uh to all not only our students but making sure that they're working closely with parents and the staff that they work with at those School sites uh our second
program is our Wellness programs uh essentially these individuals are our our our staff that are working directly with parents and families there are student and families resource Navigators and coordinators our healthc Care Advocates and some of our organizational
facilitators that are bringing in those Partners establishing those M us walking Partners through the process oftentimes it can be uh very lengthy but we work closely that's the goal of those individuals to really help navigate uh the the bureaucratic process that we
have um but we deep uh deeply believe that if we Forge these connections with Community organizations and you heard me talk about that was one my one of my Hope and Dreams is that we are going to transform schools into hubs of care hubs that can provide the the necessary uh
tools for our communities and families um and then lastly we have our Bap mental health and wellness Department uh this is almost like a joint effort between the office of etto under the direction of Dr Robert Whitman and we work closely together so that we
have 60 Bap psychiatric social workers across our schools our our tier one schools and essentially they're providing the essential services that are needed that honors identity and the experiences and values the strength of
our black students and families but most importantly that our Bap psws not only are working with our with our students they're also working across the entire District really transforming the entire District to in a way where we're
embracing Mental Health Equity and really making a shift in in our practices this next data obviously it wouldn't be a presentation if we didn't have some data uh this is data that has been shared in the past in various committees um you know for example I I
sit in a committee with a fellow member here uh Miss Harper and and where we talk about uh some um strategies where we can work with Community Partners to address some issues and one of those issues is suicide U behaviors and the
three things I want to point out about this data because there's a lot going on here aside from the colors and you know the numbers and the line essentially it's it's very comprehensive and our for those of you that are are not familiar for the public we have in the district
an incident Reporting System called iar and any sort of incident related to suicide gets documented whether it be the student that says I was just joking that I wanted to die to the actual student needing in is in a in a crisis
everything gets treated equally everything gets documented and so that's what you see in those yellow sections of the bars uh the numbers that you see there is the aggregate total for each uh for all the all the incidents and behaviors that are U reported the second
thing I want to point out is that you'll naturally see that the months of July and December like it's like whoa what happened there um it's not a pop quiz that's when school's out and so it's not that the the issues went away is that
then this is where the safety net and the eyes of our school staff not only our psws but our PSAs our teachers everyone they don't have eyes on students so we see that right so I just want to point that out that it's not that things just went away the third
thing I want to point out is that in the month of October that's another thing that might just jump out at you right now you might wonder why is this why is this an uptick well I'll tell you our hypothesis is is two one is that as a
district as a spard and we've really built uh an initiative around September being Suicide Prevention and awareness month so we believe that through those efforts through that awareness that we push out as a district it really has a
big shift in the month of October so and the last thing I'll say with this data is that just because the numbers are high yes we want to track it's concerning but it also tells a story that people were doing what we need to do and that kids are coming and asking for help so I just want to leave
you with that um this last uh piece of data is really our what as a as a branch we're looking as part of our strategic plan essentially we have various measures of suc ESS this is one of them uh or a few of them I should say and
essentially we're looking at the number of students that have come in contact with our psws um so in that first one you see kind of the last year year to date um from July to to uh 23 to January
24 that was the output this year we're a little you know below kind of where we were last year but nevertheless over 40,000 students have ConEd connected with apsw the second piece that we talk about a lot is the importance of mental health consultation we know that sometimes just
a student or parent um sorry I should say a parent and a staff member for this category May Reach Out wanting consultation on like how do I how do I approach this child what do I do with this child this is what we're seeing and
this year we are more than doubled in some of those efforts so just a big um you know just shout out to all of our uh mental health staff out there doing this work lastly is what I call uh our meeso macro level interventions so what it is
it's our our schoolwide interventions our classroom interventions whatever's happening at that level this is where kind of captures this last data point um and then I want do want to point out a few initiatives you know I think we are always about thinking about
Innovation thinking about increase in Access and education um so these are three uh in uh projects that some of them are new some of them on have already taken place a couple of years in a row for the for example the first one is our youth mental health and wellness
Symposium this is going to be the third year that we are doing this it's taking place Friday May 2nd and this is an opportunity where we have youth mental health leaders come across from across the district they show up at East LA in the past the last couple years it's been
on a Saturday so we we would have 500 kids come out on a Saturday we shifted it to a Friday based on their feedback we anticipate we're hoping for more than 500 this year we're being challenged that way but it's a wonderful opportunity for them for it's for youth
by youth so we work closely with uh the board member the student board members you know in the last couple years and um we really have an opportunity where the youth teach workshops on the various projects they're doing at their school sites and and it's a just a fun activity
fun day of events so that's something we're really proud of the other is on May 10th I know for our Latin American uh moms and families I know that's you know Mother's Day but we're we're C we're going to do this we're going to make it happen it's our uh move it 5K
health and wellness Festival we obviously believe that mental health is also promoted through healthy habits healthy physical activities so it's actually going to be a 5K and then it's going to culminate with a lot of resources uh we're partnering with
various uh partners that are going to provide uh Dental screening and all sorts of fun activities and it's going to take place in the Coliseum and then thirdly something that you may have already seen and something that we've been really talking about is really
increasing Access to telal Health Services um and some may Wonder well why well the reason is what we we found is that a lot of we want to diversify our Outreach and access point for for Community to access Mental Health
Services and so through very strategic Partnerships we were able to obtain uh free to the district free to families these services and most importantly just this past year our team was really challenged to be able to further meet
the needs of our families and bypass the the let's say the middleman of the school Personnel making the referral now families can actually initiate a referral without going through a school Personnel so they can log into uh uh the
parent portal and request the service and they can request and receive the services from home so we're really proud about about these three initiatives that we're we're launching um and so the last couple things I want as we as I tee off to my colleagues my school colleagues
wanted to draw your attention obviously to my crew you're going to hear all about it from from our my colleague from Drew middle school and she's going to talk about this these efforts but it was something that when she talked well she'll talk about it but it's really an
opportunity for really address Suicide Prevention to really promote academic success and it's my crew and it stands for creating resilience empowering wellness and again I won't steal her show she she'll she'll talk about Miss Rashida Jones um and then also well one
thing that I wanted to talk about was also rooted in resilience was it was something that just four weeks ago we launched as part of the we are1 campaign and the concept behind this is that we want to provide workshops for parents
and caregivers on how to build resilience strategies in the moments that we're they're faced in right now there we know that there's some potential unpredictable uh perilous moments especially right now for some of our families that might have some
questions about their immigration status and so these rooted in resilience workshops are aimed to really build that um in the last month we've had two virtual offerings and four in-person offerings and we are continue to build
those in just of those six sessions we've have we've had over 1100 parents and caregivers attend and the feedback has been fantastic so I know we're partnering with some other community members and partners to share this information so this is our plug as well
to share this resource and for any questions for any of these resources that I've been talking about um please contact our our student Family Resource line which is 213 241 3840 uh and with that I'm going to
introduce Miss Rashida Jones she's for our fantastic Bap PSW at Drew middle school and she's going to walk us through uh the mic crew efforts and the wonderful work she's doing at that school good afternoon everyone I first I just want to say it is an honor to be here
this is my first time and I am very proud um to represent the black student achievement plan as a psychiat social worker at Charles Drew Middle School all right so I'm here to highlight and acknowledge the impactful and wonderful work that we're doing as
my crew um not only in our program but on our campus first let me start off by saying my crew stands for creating resilience empowering Wellness with the emphasis on resilience because of the things that our students face and the challenges but the the importance of
empowering them through the things that they go through and of course we're here for joy and wellness so I'll start with our mission Bap mental health and wellness is on a mission to promote mental health and wellness at all Bap group one schools through peer-to-peer mentorship led by BAP
psws my crew addresses issues that affect the mental health and wellness of black students to ensure academic success emphasis on all students and allies being welcome so some data's research shows that social support can buffer against
suicide risk culturally affirming connections fostering resilience and belonging and what I've noticed is that a lot of our students have a sense of belonging with being a part of my crew we started because the suicide death rate among black youth have been found to be increasingly faster than any other
um ethnic group in the United States as of 2018 suicide became the second leading cause of the death in black children ages 10 to 14 which is in middle school which is where I work and the third leading cause of death in Black adolescence ages 15 to 19 so just
keep in mind those stats and the importance of why we're here ultimately my crew is created to empower students to embrace their challenges while having the autonomy taking student Le initiatives so here on
this slide is how my crew is represented at Charles Drew Middle School the first picture at the top is the logo that my students created um we created a safe space for them where they had food music and they were able to get creative of what they wanted my crew to look like
and their logo to put on their swag the second picture is me and one of my my crew student leaders who took the initiative to attend our Bap family reunion at High School on a Saturday she volunteered her time to teach and educate parents who came and students
who came up to our booth about mental health wellness and my crew she did an amazing job the third picture to the top is our my crew Wellness calendar every Wednesday on Wellness Wednesday we partner with Bap and we do events in our
quad area again the students come up with these ideas for January we had our spirit week my crew spirit week we had LED our I Have a Dream speech um on behalf of Martin Luther King we had a Unity walk and every Wednesday every last Wednesday of the month we have yoga
in the quad inviting all students and teachers to come out again all of these activities are student L by my crew the picture to the the bottom half is some of our our leaders there's a picture of yoga in the
quad um again allowing students to connect and be mindful on the grass and then we have have some of our um one of our events there uh we did a culture of Love event for Valentine's Day but we brought what does it mean to
have love in our culture um what does it look like for us to affirm ourselves so these are just some of the things that we do add drew that I wanted to highlight my crew looks different at each school campus again because it is student Le so just want to shout out to
some of our other Bap schools Hill Chris is represented here CAW high school was represented at one of the mental health symposiums last year talking about teen violence aabon Middle School Fremont
High School um P peso Del talking about self-care and La high school again these are some of our schools who represent my crew doing a amazing work with mental health and wellness bringing joy to our students and
staff when we talk about impact data is important but it's also I want to highlight some of the impactful work that we've done with my crew at Drew and there's four examples that I'd like to share one of the impactful ways that I've seen with my crew is the attendance
increasing our student leaders are running to me in the morning on time um every Monday Wednesday and Friday with their Wellness tips that they're providing to staff and students with their affirmations ready to affirm our students over the intercom and positive
quotes they also lead the meditation part of that that process I've seen the behaviors decrease giving them something positive to do um instead of you know running around the yard um and then I see again because I am their PSW I see
that the challenges they go through this is a healthy way healthy way for them to cope one of the second ways I like to acknowledge is on Wednesday some of our micro students attended diam Le High School where there was a panel with the LA Rams during that discussion um one of
the LA Rams is an African-American male and he was sharing his story and being vulnerable and he mentioned that he had a death of a friend of his who committed suicide after that story I acknowledged him told him thank you for sharing and then I went over to my my crew student
and asked him what did he learn he said Miss Jones that's how he said he said Miss Jones he mentioned his friend committed suicide was an African African-American male and it's to what you talked about the data with young men's creating suicide or committing
suicide and that's the reason why my crew is here so it was a full circle moment in making that connection letting them know like they understand why this club is important the Third Way of impact um I want to mention um is my
crew is participating in the mental health Symposium Char Drew Middle School will be the first Middle School who will be participating um in the mental health Symposium and they are Beyond excited right now we're coming up with different topics and they understand the importance of changing the narrative for
mental health changing the narrative to where they come from even though Drew is located in the South and so there's so many things that they want to change the narrative and be a part of and so they're one looking at some topics like self-care tobacco use and prevention um
and and again they're really excited when we talk about impact it's very important for us to talk about data last year was our pilot program and so when we did a survey of 124 schools 81.4% of our students shared that they
have a positive impacted my crew has positively impacted their school year 78% shared that that enhanced their sense of belonging and connection within School Community 79% shared that my crew made them feel more comfortable with
engaging in activities for joy and wellness and talking about mental health and so those are some of the ways in which my crew has been a great benefit again as a PSW I sit in rooms and I know what they're going through so it's also very beautiful to see when they're
outside leading these initiatives in classroom talking about the importance of suicide and having a safe space and them taking leadership their leadership position and just create en joy and wellness on our campus is very important so that is my
time all right and then up next uh we have we're going to shift to zoom world I don't know how to do that uh but I will introduce uh we have a team from Maya Angela High School uh led by
principal Mr Messa psws mazaro boras and councelor Nunes uh and I believe there's this PowerPoint slide and hopefully they're on good afternoon Familia can y'all hear me yes we can thank you sir thank you so
much Mr cetto my apologies for whatever reason I am unable to start my video that's why my screen is black here I have no idea what's going on with my technology by my apologies Al USD Familia thank you for having the Maya Familia here here on behalf of the entire uh Maya Community it's an honor
to be here uh board member ores Franklin thank you so much for having us in the entire uh school safety climate committee uh we're going to take a few minutes to share some information about our School site our efforts to specifically address uh school safety and climate specifically as it pertains
to our newcomer students some information there about our School site as you can see demographics population slightly under 1,000 students enrolled uh of which a little bit over 90% are Hispanic under 10% uh Bap and the remaining other students of that
population a little bit under 300 that are um English Learners uh from those English Learners we have a little bit under than a half that are newcomers to our particular School Community um one thing to note is that from our newcomers uh the misconception is that all
newcomers must be Spanish speakers native speakers that isn't necessarily the case especially for us here at Maya um we have a lot of individuals who come from Central and South America and have indigenous languages as their native or first language uh so that's you know important for us to know as we welcome
in these students and we you know create environments for them to be feel welcome and humanized um obviously current political climate has uh exacerbated some of these particular concerns for students and the anxiety right that has come across all of the communities not
just here in LA but across the state and across the country something major that we've been addressing the last few weeks and in fact you'll hear from Miss Mao and Mr boras who took initiative even before the we1 campaign to address these concerns uh schoolwide with our students
letting them know hey remember this is a reminder about some of the services that we have in place for you all we're here as a famia to support you we're here as a as a Familia to hear you and to and to be there in times of need um across the us we know obviously suicide is a big
concern in the increases we've seen the data that was shared a little while ago by uh Mr C Nettles uh Maya is no different uh we've been impacted firsthand with over the past two years we've lost three students as a result of of of suicide uh something that our crisis team the region uh and the
district have been extremely supportive in terms of being able to meet the needs of not only our students our staff our community but also our families that were directly impacted by this um so far we've had 28 risk assessments as Mr C mentioned all of that is documented per policy and procedure through iar we do
monitor that information and we make note of that and we adjust and provide the services as needed um we offer you know supports to our to our students on a regular basis we do know that in the community you know violence is up there's been uh increased instances of robberies um grooming and assault that
have impacted our students uh and again all of these impact you know you know social emotional wellbeing and mental health and uh when you're going to hear right now from M ma m bous are just some of the systems that we have in place to be able to address and to meet those needs um 100% of our students students come from socially uh dis uh
disadvantaged backgrounds uh 95% of them qualify for free and reduced lunched um one thing that I will add before I pass over the Baton to miss masgo that one key thing here and you hear me say this word Familia lot um as I speak to superintendent carvalo the board member on a regular basis during data data
dialogues that is one key fund uh fundamental aspect of our culture here right we are one Familia uh titles mean nothing we're all here to create a humanizing experience for all of our kiddos uh because when students feel that humanizing impact and that connection they feel safe they feel
welcome and they'll be ready to learn and that's helped us move my in the right direction over the past year and a half with that I want to thank everybody for their time and I'm going to pass over the Baton to miss Carla maero one of our amazing psws thank you m ma dieo thank you Mr Mesa and good
afternoon everyone again my name is KLA masgo psychiatric social worker and this year you know we do have two PS at Maya we're thankful for that and Mr Bas and I have been able to provide multi-tier supports to our school Community right
we are able to address those mental health needs for our students and through that some of the tier one schoolwide services that we have included our monthly campaigns we do suicide prevention in September buling prevention in October and W winter
Wellness to help them identify like healthy coping skills and resources as they go into their winter bre break these campaigns are through like activities during lunchtime or advisory to promote joy and wellness in addition our teachers are also provided with
tools ongoing consultations trainings and support to identify their social emotional needs for our students when it comes to our targeted interventions we have identified High needs for our newcomer population so we went into classrooms and we have provided at Erica
Lighthouse presentations this is a district approved curriculum that helps bring awareness on depression and suicide prevention so as you can see on the PowerPoint we have definitely increased amount of students in attendance in those classrooms right it includes our English Learners and some
of the other students in the general population who are um in those ninth and 10 grade classrooms we also have increased the self self-referral so students after the presentation they fill out a self-referral form and in those forms they ask if they want to be
seen within a week or within 24 hours or they do not need the resources at the moment and so we definitely have increased that which is a great win right for for us to be able to check in with these students who need the support uh which takes us to the Intensive services in which we continue providing
crisis response through risk assessments that you've seen threat assessments safety planning parent participation through all those risk assessments threats and safety plans that we do uh we do also mental health referrals to our partners that we have here at at
Maya we do case management short-term individual counseling too and again right if you could see the data we have doubled the amount of students that we have seen so we're just comparing the fall semesters since right now we just finished our fall 2024 so we definitely doubled um seeing our students so we're
really grateful for that that we're able to service our community now we we will pass it on to Mr bodas hi good afternoon everyone so I'm going to follow with the supports that our new comer counselor Miss Nunes has provided here at her school unfortunately she's out ill today so she
can't join us but I'll jump in for her so one of the things that she she does is when new new students enroll to our school um specifically the newcomer students she conducts intake interviews and in those intake interviews she you know talks to the student the families finds out where they're coming from what supports they might need and she does a
campus tour so she takes every student every newcomer student around campus goes one to one to each office makees sure that they meet the psws they meet the PSAs the IT department their academic counselor just every adult here and staff member on campus that can provide support for them and by the time
the student is done with that tour he or she or they have met at least like 50 or 60 different staff members that can support them at any time the other thing she does is provides them with school supplies if they need papers pens backpacks whatever the student may need to learn she makes sure that they that they provided with that um she also
provides a welcome packet for the students and families which includes just you know may Angela one-on-one which is schedule breakdown student and parent portals how to access a community resource list which can include obviously Mental Health Resources legal aid um just any type of resources they may need she also connects them with sports and clubs let them know what kind
of great Sports we have here at Maya um and the clubs we have and one of those clubs is actually her Club is the fun club which stands for Forever United newcomer Club um and that club provides after school homework in English support language um language support um they also do a lot of events one of the most
beautiful events I've ever been a part of is konor know my history poetry night where students talked you know in poetry form talked about you know their story where they came where they come from their experiences and it was just a beautiful night they also provided a we are they created the we are Maya video which highlights our diverse languages
each student you know spoke in their own native tongue which is just a great video to to see and and and be a part of um and then the one the last thing she does is in-class support so she obviously goes into the classroom she does classroom observations she provides student support within the classroom she models lessons such such as a through G
requirements so that the students know in their own language what requirements for their graduation um and then she does SEO which is social emotional learning and she is a part of our our um our Erica's Lighthouse which M Mas spoke about and then the last thing she she
mentions here is just um sorry I was um the last thing she mentioned was just the different types of of um of issues are our students our newcomer students May AR right with you know living situations they might be coming to a a new home where they're with a parent that they haven't seen in 15 years or 16
years or so on or just you know folks that they've never met before so just those unique living situations their finances right we know that our newcomer population sometimes they got to provide you know for themselves or support the family um and just a different education you know a lot of them come with a lot of different education levels some have
you know primary or secondary or no education so that's one of the the unique things for our newcomer students and with that I'll pass it over to Mr Mesa thank you so much Mr boras and Miss Mao and my camera's back on Familia so
thank you so much uh just looking ahead again uh you see here a Le of different opportunities or different supports that we have we're going to continue doubling down on these particular efforts but it all begins and ends what the amazing team that we have here M Mao and M Mr Bas are just two of many individuals
right it's a full uh plethora of individuals who are here to support it's all hand deck approach uh you know to be able to support all of our students in particular our our newcomers and our Els right it's not just the one person or one team sort of show all of us kind of play A Part here so we're going to continue to double down on that making
sure that we connect with students greet them in the morning uh say hello welcome how are you check in with them and see how we can best meet them because communicating and again creating those Partnerships and those experiences and those relationships with them is how number one we're going to get across and know what those needs are and what those challenges are and how we can best
support them either with services that we currently have here at Maya or by reaching out with our partners with the region and with the district as a whole so we're going to continue to uh you know provide these services but more importantly be here as human beings and as partners with our students and meet those diverse needs so thank you so much
for the opportunity to the uh committee here and thank you so much for board member Ortiz for allowing us to share uh you know a small sample size of what we do here at Maya there we go thank you Mr Mesa PSW uh boras and PSW Mao and and I know Miss
Nunes was unable to make it thanks to her as well uh so as we close up I just wanted to just uh before we open open up for uh Q&A just really want to hopefully you saw kind of just the dedication the professionalism from all of our staff
not only our senior mental health and wellness staff but all of our school staff you know our leaders everyone else that's not wasn't part of this rep uh presentation plays a pivotal uh role but then also our Community Partners again they play a role in this work so with
that I'm open for a Q&A thank you thank you so much and I should have said at the top I hope it was clear with the two schools and the programs were highl in today it really is in response to the National context and the most vulnerable communities that we're trying to support here in La unified so appreciate the um specific supports for our kiddos and
communities and I'll invite questions from my colleagues and also remind us that we'll have public comment as soon as this discussion is done um so thank you to those of you who are being patient uh for a public comment um so team what questions do we have for either Drew Maya or the wellness
team go ahead Miss uh question so I know you mentioned Suicide Prevention in September what are can you share what are some of the actionable items that we do in September that kind of give to the
uptick in October and then what is done throughout the other months good question uh I'll tee it off and then if uh Miss Jones the psws at the Maya want to share then they can certainly can so I think it starts really like I was saying with
the campaign with the every school safe it it starts with students get a presentation parents get a presentation in workshop and then the staff in addition to that there is a lot happening during that month where psws
and schools where they don't have a pssw they put on either like some sort of Workshop or fairs or things to raise the awareness throughout the year um I want to commend our director of school mental health Lisha Johnson she has also been
really pivotal and really thinking about what we need to do yearlong around social media we were one we dabbling with social media we're we're recognizing that that's a an a partner in the space uh and so we've been able to put various different campaigns that
the team is working on to really Target um you know raising awareness I don't know if anyone from um M uh Mr Messa or the pssw or you want to come up and share anything Mr
Jones yes similar to what Joel mentioned like for the month of September we're doing in classroom presentations we're doing announcements in the morning we're sending emails with videos that the students can relate to to play in class during Home Room uh we have our parent
workshop for suicide awareness month and each month we just continue to like break the stigma dropping the research and like fun activities to allow students to be self-aware of different coping skills they can use if they are are experiencing like suicide and then
we follow back up in May for mental health awareness month sharing the exact same message thanks and what are some other tools that you may use because I know um working in a Dean's office me and the PSW were like this and I appreciate her
I think I was in that number that you said with the consultation that was me definitely in that number um what are some of the um tools or uh strategies used to increas increase and change The
Narrative of our students seeking out support um because in many of our cultures it's not um what we do it's just not what we do you don't seek help you don't seek um support in this and trying to help our families to
understand that we're here to to to help them meet a need what are some of the the tactics or strategies you're using I want to let the school psws answer this one so for me as the BF psychiatric social work a lot of psycho education and we
have a lot of tools that were provided by Lisha Johnson and our um our schooly page with data um again creating a safe space personally calling our parents informing them of the stigma what it looks like inviting them in to kind of
again create a safe space I think that that's the main thing creating a safe space where they feel seen where they feel heard or representation is um and that's what's been helping kind of break that stigma we had a um a round table talk for black mental health where I teamed up with another PSW at da lee
high school and it was very impactful maybe not a lot of numbers in terms of the amount of people showed up but we we definitely had people leaving like thank you for this space and they were actually wanting to receive help and we had resources for them and so making
sure that everybody is represented I did it for Spanish I did it in Spanish for my Spanish speaking parents and then I made sure that you know other our other Democrats trffic are represented but again the same message great last question what uh can we do to support as
board members in certain areas to make sure that this is continued within our schools appreciate what you're doing in the schools because we share some of those same schools that you mentioned um with my crew um what can we do to kind of have it permeate throughout the
district well I appreciate even asking the question I think it starts there like your interests and your wanting to be part of part of uh the solution as well I think is goes a long way I think really opportunities such as this one where we can share information make it public making sure that people know that
there's resources out there um helping us whether it's in social media like amplifying messages I know we've had conversations around like some of the tella Health pieces like how can you help us also carry a message you have a very unique um you know kind of trust
perhaps in the community that that people listen to you and so I think it would be helpful that then you can share some of those messages as well thank you yep Miss GGO I would add um that we increase funding for our uh mental health supports and that we
expand the Bap program I really appreciate your presentation it really warmed my heart just to see the pictures and um and to hear all the things that you do that we might take for granted that are so important in helping
students and fames feel welcomed feel seen feel heard and uh which brings me to I was going to ask earlier about chronic absenteeism right what are the reasons why our students don't come to school or what would a school look like
when there is attendance at 96.7% or what is our goal 97.6 maybe um so what are the things that are at a school where attendance is that high and I would think I am guessing and I'm
hypothesizing but maybe um the M uh PSA uh director could chime in um I'm guessing it's the things that you were describing that you do at your school that where you greet the students and they're all ready with tools to support
other peers to do this work right um and the same thing with our lgbtq uh plus Community how what does it look like to have a school that affirms what are the programs that we have what is the Staffing what is the language that we
use how do we behave um what does that look like and I'd love to continue imagining these spaces um and uh not only in this but us as board members in our board conversations so that we can truly start to create these spaces and
expand the programs like my crew to more schools so with that I have a question about my crew um is it at every Bap School app Group one or is it at the discretion of the PSW who works at that
school that they uh have a space for my crew so it is this is the first year that it's being launched and the goal is that we're launching it at every school where there's a PSW as far as the implementation level
that may vary based on you know the the needs or like the engagement from the the school from the from the students as you heard from Miss Jones it's really co-created and developed by the youth so part of it is also getting them involved and getting it so there is a
representation at all Bap one schools with a PSW okay that's wonderful and um you know your statistics about suicide um um death by Suicide or suicidal ideation among black students and youth
um I that statistic was in the training that all Educators get um at the beginning of the year and um and it really was very alarming to me and it just reminded me of the importance of Bap and uh and the work
that you do and I'm wondering is there a space for educators for psws who are at paap Bap schools where they can share best practices a place where you can congregate and share what you're doing all the wonderful things that go on and
that can spread to other schools let me understand the question that Bap psws share with other psap yeah that they congregate Bap psws or even Bap Educators right um or Educators at a BAP school where they
talk about best practices so the short answer is yes so Bap psws have a monthly meetings amongst themselves to share best practices so every month and Miss Valerie white here uh the administrator one of the administrators of the bap
uh mental health and wellness team is here and they meet monthly with that team recognizing that there are very unique trainings that are needed that my crew came out of that that very type of very intentional like brainstorming convening and then really thinking about
that and then on the educator side I know I don't want to speak on behalf of Dr Whitman but I know there are also regular meetings where the Bap uh instructional team meets to really share best practices as well well and our Bap mental health and wellness
administrators participate in that so that there is coherence as Mr cha talked about across the instructional world with the social emotional World okay thank you and um regarding the tella Health yes you said that families can
request that support um and do they so that that means that the student will do it at home is that does that and then does the educator or the school find out that the student is receiving the support at home or so yeah so there's a couple parts of your question so the
short answer is yes the families can access the care directly from Parent Portal or go on to uh our website which is lusd.org tmhp parents it's a little bit of a mouthful but uh it's then from there
they can access it or again Parent Portal they can then they'll get connected directly with the provider and then receive the care from home if for whatever reason they were to say like I'd rather like try it at the school then we have on the back end created an
infrastructure where those partners connect with our organizational facilitators our psws and the School site principal to then create the space at the school site where they can have that um that care all right thank you
thank you Miss Jones and um for the other school for Maya Angelou I have a some questions about their newcomer Academy um is it first let me just clarify are you a newcomer Academy and is that what you're called uh no we are
not a newcomer Academy I believe uh Bernstein is the school that has that particular program that launched this year we do have a large group of newcomer students but I believe what you're referring to is the fun club that was created by a newcomer counselor uh which stands for Forever United newcomer
club right this is a group that meets once a week after school just like any other club right uh open to all but primarily caters to the needs of our newcomer students and uh Miss Nunes who unfortunately wasn't able to be here one of our amazing colleagues and amazing uh
you know newcomer counselor part of the work that she does is to you know establish that direct relationship with her students but also create that environment of this is a welcoming space for you you belong here you're going to find the niche to be able to kind of highlight and showcase your talents uh Mr Bor has alluded to you know the Kos
hisor event that we had last year I had the privilege of being there and uh I think next time we have it I'm going to extend an invitation to all of you because very very powerful stories that come out of that particular night family members are here they present in either a their language uh whether that's
Spanish or indigenous or even English or a combination of all three but it's really highlighted and showcasing those talents and in speaking with those kiddles um that time around you know one of the things that came out is like we also have talent it just comes
out in different forms or in a different language right we also are capable it's just because there's a language difference it doesn't mean that there's a difference in terms of you know our our our intelligence or our capacity right so again those types of things that we're putting forth with our kiddos
and just promoting right uh really opens the door really again as I mentioned creates that humanizing experience which is essential because if you don't have that relationship you won't find out what those challenges are from those kids from any students any school regardless of its population I'm a firm
believer in that you have to create a humanizing experience for kids education has to be humanizing or else it's just facts we're just going through the motions right and I think all of us can reflect back to a time in which we were students and we remember teachers either
for one reason or another right but those that had the profound impact treated us and saw us as human beings and they validated us for who we are not who who we're trying to become or who they were trying to make us be thank you so just just one last thing so what more it sounds like you're
making the most out of uh having a newcomer coach without having the title of an academy what more do you think our newcomer students need to to thrive and to continue having these
experiences um maybe a different president no gosh that that would help um I I think just being able to make sure that everybody's here for them right you know it's not just the School site but the entire community that we are here we are one the Familia goes
beyond just you know the walls of our particular school right um and I think if all of us are open to hear these unique stories and these unique challenges right then we can be there for our kids and they will feel validated and be more than welcome to come in here and say here's what I need support with here's how you can support me with um and I think that goes a long
way uh you know so again I want to just thank our amazing team that we have here I want to thank uh this committee for allowing us this opportunity um and any supports that y all can you know provide us and continue to provide us uh we will gladly take and we will gladly welcome but uh it's been nothing but support
since I've arrived at Maya now a year and a half now that I've been here wonderful thank you and thank you to the staff here for being here and from our community members arth or Carlos it's okay if not no I
I I wasn't going to say anything what I what stood out was how the family connection into the work of the psws was embedded into the tier system so I really appreciated that and
if we hear from the discipline Foundation policy we might need to hear more of those stories how is the tier system involving the whole family in the support for the students so that really stood out appreciate hearing that from
your your your team thank you thank you all so much another great presentation from our school sites and our Wellness Partners I force the Applause sorry um I do really want to appreciate the folks coming out because you know we've been talking a lot about what is school
culture climate and safety in this political context and it is a lot about the data and the numbers but it's also so much about the stories and the heart and the healing that we were hearing about earlier and uh appreciate our school staff members who can really um share that with us even though we can't be with you every day and witness the
power that's happening between your students uh and and your community just really want to appreciate all of you from Drew to Maya um to our District staff and the hundreds of other stories that are out there that couldn't be here today with us presenting we know they're there and we love the opportunity to
elevate those so thank you all for being here um and of course we love to hear from our community on these issues and so we have a slate of 10 speakers usually at two minutes each for these committee meetings and I'll turn it over to Mr McLean to get us going and then we will adjourn okay here we go I'll call on the folks who listed themselves as
being in person first and then we'll go to the folks who listed themselves as being remote so letia iara are you here letia iar and then after Miss IB is Eddie Madison and then Kyrie Jordan so come on
up okay okay we're going to pass out these translation headsets so if you'd like to hear what missa is saying in English as she's speaking in Spanish here in the boardroom please put your hands up and we'll get you a translation [Music] headset okay s
good afternoon my name is laa I'm a mother leader and K well my experience with the school in the prison was through my child there's a percentage of students my son was going through bullying at
school and results of his and results of of his participation in class it was affected the teacher constantly would would send my my student to the office taking privileges away like participating in in recess and other
events I want to I had to learn my rights because the school couldn't teach this I had to learn how to resolve the issue and who I needed to speak with I tried to resolve the problem inside the school didn't have an answer so I had to take him to the next level after
communicating to the district what was going on the teacher represent my child represented my child even more the teacher took fault for my child didn't take fault for my child and didn't resolve the issue if there was a implementation a policy maybe the
teacher would have utilized a the communication and assertive communication instead of representing my child in which she didn't resolve anything even though as parents are making an effort we have challenges when
we when we fight for our children but Latino parents and uh and African-American parents come together but we need to remove the barriers and what has been placed on our students for our children to be treated with respect and dignity for them to have a space
where they can participate grow academically emotionally social and physically thank you thank you for your time Eddie Madison are you here Eddie Madison no Eddie all right Kyrie Jordan or k Jordan I
apologize if I've mispronounced your name my name is k Jordan I'm a mother of four black black LAUSD students and a Cadre parent leader let me tell about my experience with the school to prison pipeline my story is a part of those many
experiences of push out when PBIS is not implemented my son was pushed out in grade when he had the cops called on him if tier three had been implemented this would not have H would not have happened my son uh we made the decision to pull him out before before the school from
the school because we did not feel he was safe there we have to reimagine school safety he then went to a school where there where he was able to thrive because of a p because of PBIS M PBIS measures with properly implemented PBIS
policies kids thrive in positive learning environment PBIS meetings are not being held with held in coffee with the principal does not count let me tell you what schools need need for a better re better or reim better or reimagined
school safety we need more school to college careers careers jobs and communities Community Development pipeline we need more parents to conduct classroom observations we need more schools with repres with restorative justice centers PBIS meetings and
trainings peace Builders we need more trauma informed engagement we need more teachers and School staff to communicate regularly with parents we need to put the black back in Bap this is why my this is why mine and mine and leti's
message is important unfortunately there are more Charters and private schools who have a have more solidarity for the black and brown Community we need more solidarity in our schools for all the kids we can't allow any officials or ad to divide the community this is about we
not me thank you for your time rosn broadnax Roslin B uh Maria Daisy Ortiz I see you're back there Maria Daisy Ortiz please come on up you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin Miss Ortiz is going to speak
in Spanish so if you'd like to hear what she's saying in English as she's speaking Spanish please put your hands up and we'll get you these uh headsets yeah yeah good afternoon to all my name is
Maria Daisy Ortiz and I wanted to be here more than anything because I wanted to exhort you and more than anything more than anything speak to miss Dan Ortiz and it's beautiful what you're presenting but everything that you're presenting Miss T
is uh decoration just so you can look good this is not working and their proof is for their because they're stabbing inside the schools in the games how do these how do how does this go into the games or how they even enter the school
so I advise you to be responsible for the safety of our students and our kids and stop covering and bringing up lies things that are not working the life of our children is in danger if you see
here uh there's something that I enjoyed the chronic absentismo is at 28% and you know why because you're afraid because you're they're afraid to speak because there are consequences and you are not guaranteeing this you're removing the
principal and official agent before there were two officers that would that were at each school and we weren't having these type of issues since you approve for school police to be removed along with other more members this has a
violence has in has incremented therefore we cannot trust people like you who don't have students at the schools and are not suffering the consequences of such violence at the schools please
stop putting mental health restorative justice and support groups we need police people that our parents we are taxpayers and that we need we honestly order inside our schools because the
principles are tied when there is an incident help takes long to get there please if you value our students do responsible things thank you thank you for your time Karina Lopez are you here how about di Guan I think I see you out
there miss Guan Di Guan there you are come on up you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin Miss Guan is going to speak in Spanish so if you want to hear what she's saying in English please put on these translation headsets or put your hand up and we'll get you
one okay gracias good afternoon members of the board and people of the community but first of all I want to say that in these committees school police should be here and you have removed them from this committee one of the things that you are
giving information about and it is only 30% of the teachers that Implement PBIS regularly and 25% of the teachers are trained for restorative justice therefore this
program has been out for many years you said they just said since 2017 what are the results we have the results that violence is up in the schools which is 33% fights incidents with Firearms incidents with people who are entering the schools who are robbing the schools
why do you think you're losing you're losing the students the LA USC students because parents don't feel safe they're taking them to Charter Schools now that there were protests do you think that the Charter Schools allowed students to leave they didn't allow but L USD any other school they
did leave because there's no discipline they are giving the power to the students as if they were adults and when they stabbed the child at Mendes no one said anything because we're not the responsible on said and that child was in the streets okay but why aren't you being the responsible why aren't you taking responsibility for what's
happening inside the schools US Latino parents have gained more than 5,000 signatures so that you and it seems like if it's a lie because many of us have spoken and they say I don't know Mr McLean please share share more than 4,000 signatures that we've given you
and we'll bring the others that that we have because it seems like they don't exist the community voice has no voice it is only the the the other voices and it seems like it it has branches that they're paying people so that they can come and say that school police is just
a is an oppress to the community when the city has changes they want police because there's the level of violence and drugs is going up and you are the responsible ones Miss da you're a mother please understand us we want the security and safety for our schools thank you thank you for your time Monica
Rola come on down Monica Rosa you have two minutes to speak want don't you begin good afternoon my name is Monica rasola I'm a mother of two uh District students uh from the West site and I'm in favor of school police for the
parents that have not gone through what many of us moms have gone through where our children have been beaten and it's not to not beaten when they say oh your daughter uh caught into a fight other as a mother probably thinks oh they're just pulling hair but when we see the videos
where children are running and they're when we that they're hurting our children when we see the videos uh we see so much hate in the video there's a big girl with a small child grabbing her from the hair and banging her on the floor with wanting to kill her whomever
sees that honestly has no heart if they don't do anything because as parents we are not capable of hitting our kids when they when they misbehave imagine how a mother feels when their daughter is being mistreated almost killed with beat
with being beaten if a mom hasn't gone through that congratulations good that you haven't gotten through this but mothers like me that have seen this how how they have taken our own children from our hands killing them because you asked for us to take our children to
school and we take them to school but in which way in which way do you return them to us dead how do you think a mother feels when she receives the body of the child dead when they found him at 8:00 p.m. inside a bathroom that was stabbed that was studying in a another
where another child stabbed another child on the back how do you think as moms feel when we receive these type of news is safety is very important you've seen this the this week how a group of students hurt another student that was in their that was in his car why because
there is no safety because it's happened to young people that they don't care about police and very many students attacked the student recently a mother who comments that her child was beaten by 23 students her daughter by was beaten by 23 students I
want to know I would would love for you to be in that Mother's shoe so you can understand why we want safety back in school and school and the last person signed up is speaking remotely that is Raquel Diaz ra Diaz please press star six to unmute
yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin Rael Diaz start good afternoon uh good afternoon board me members of the board I'm a mother of of two uh I'm a mother of two
students from LD and we asked for school police to come back to the schools last week there was well not an incident but the son of a
lady was at the school and she thought that this child was at the school but the child was at a park drugged and this is a 13-year-old son therefore we need safety to be at the schools whether it be for the teachers
for the students and also for all parents and the rest therefore it is important please for school police to come back to schools it is important to protect our children to protect the students teachers and
everyone else please we have to we need it back we need school police to come back especially to the school so that we can see what the students are doing because we think we're at work and we think that they're at school but unfortunately
they're on the streets doing things they shouldn't be doing unfortunately they're being lost and what we parents want is for you to help us help us with that school police needs to go back to schools and around those schools thank
you public comment thank you we appreciate hearing from our community our Pres presenters our staff uh and look forward to the meeting with everybody again next month we welcome your ideas as we shape the last two meetings of this uh committee and appreciate everyone hope you get home safely tonight thank you