School Community Partnership for Mental Health (SCPMH)
School Community Partnership for Mental Health (SCPMH) is a collaborative mental health program with Milwaukee Public Schools and four community provider agencies: Sebastian Family Psychology Practice, LLC; Aurora Family Service; Shorehaven Behavioral Health, Inc.; and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin–Community Services. The partnership exists to provide access to mental health services, right at school, for students who would not be able to use them in the community. There are currently nineteen schools in the SCPMH partnership (thirteen MPS schools, three partnership schools, and three private schools) where students and families, regardless of their ability to pay, can access mental health services from part-time clinical therapists positioned in those schools.
June 2018 Newsletter – Celebrate Success (English) (Spanish)
April 2018 Newsletter – Teaching Homework Responsibility (English) (Spanish)
February 2018 Newsletter – Stay CALM with Report Cards (English) (Spanish)
December 2017 Newsletter – Sleep (English) (Spanish) (Karen)
June 2017 Newsletter – Summer Success (English) (Spanish) (Karen)
May 2017 Newsletter – Reflecting on the School Year and Celebrating Success (English) (Spanish) (Karen)
April 2017 Newsletter – Student Self-Esteem Linked to Grades and Attendance (English) (Spanish) (Karen)
March 2017 Newsletter – Getting the Most Out of Parent-Teacher Conferences (English) (Spanish)
February 2017 Newsletter – Morning Routines, Dealing with Failure, and Raising a Good Citizen (English) (Spanish)
January 2017 Newsletter – Childhood Anxiety (English) (Spanish)
December 2016 Newsletter – Children and Holiday Stress (English) (Spanish)
November 2016 Newsletter – School Avoidance (English) (Spanish)
May 2016 Newsletter – Summer Success (English) (Spanish)
April 2016 Newsletter – Praise or Encouragement (English) (Spanish)
March 2016 Newsletter – What to Do about Stress (English) (Spanish)
February 2016 Newsletter – Winter Attendance (English) (Spanish)
January 2016 Newsletter – When Thoughts Get Stuck in Your Head (English) (Spanish)
MPS Parent Information Brochures – in Collaboration with WI FACETS
Wisconsin RtI Center
Wisconsin RtI Center Family Resources Page
Online Training Module for parents: The module answers questions parents may have about RtI.
ABCs of RtI
WI FACETS
RtI Family Engagement Newsletter
Newsletters and resources for families; newsletters created in collaboration with WI FACETS
Milwaukee FACETS MPS Resources
Parents Act Now! Bullying Prevention Program
Created by Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Act Now! What Parents Need to Know About Bullying offers a series of videos on the topic of bullying, including ways to handle different types of bullying situations that may affect your child or teen, whether at school, at home, or in the community. Within each topic, you will have the opportunity to download and print a summary of the information in the video.
Lexiled Book List
Use the Lexiled book list resource to find sample titles of books within your child’s Lexile range to support student learning at home.
Visit http://www.lexile.com/fab to match your child’s Lexile range from the district’s Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment to create a customized book list for your student.
RtI Action Network – Parent Resources
Families are crucial partners in effective implementation of RtI. As states and school districts work to implement an RTI process that provides early help to struggling students, parents need to understand the essential components of RtI and the roles they can play in supporting their child’s success. The RtI Action Network has created resources for parents to use.
Love and Logic
Children learn the best lessons when they’re given a task and allowed to make their own choices (and fail) when the cost of failure is still small as a child. Children’s failures must be coupled with love and empathy from their parents and teachers. This practical and straightforward philosophy is backed by thirty years of experience from Love and Logic practitioners. Parents can apply these strategies immediately to a wide range of situations instead of struggling with difficult counseling procedures and discipline issues.
Love and Logic for Parents Official Site
Love and Logic Free Resources
Impact Parenting Love and Logic Resources
Lewis Center Love and Logic Tips
PBIS at Home Resources
Parenting and Your Child's Behavior
Additional Resources
Summer Support (English)
Parent Pointers from WI FACETS: Supporting Your Child’s Learning Outside of School
Have you heard of the "summer slide"? It’s not something you find on a playground. The summer slide is the term used to explain what can happen to children’s skills during the summer when they are not in school — they can slide backward.
Children spend only about 14% of their time in school in a year. That means if they spend a third of their time at home and in the community watching TV, they are actually spending more time in front of the screen than they are in school!
What does this mean for children? A child can lose up to 3 months of reading skills over the summer. When the children return to school in the fall, teachers can spend 4-6 weeks teaching skills that students already learned the year before. But there is good news — spending just 2-3 hours a week reading in the summer can help prevent this slide. That’s only about 20 minutes per day!
In fact, reading 20 minutes a day outside of school is important all the time, not just in summer. Studies have shown that the more reading that is done outside of school, the better students do in school! The best way to help students read more at home is to make sure they have access to books that are interesting to them. There are lots of resources online to help you do this — some of them can be found on WI FACETS’s website and on your MPS Student Toolbox.
If you are interested in more ways to support your child’s learning over the summer, check out the summer programs offered by MPS. There’s also a great list of community resources for kids to discover in the summer if you scroll down and look on the right side of the page. Check out summer enrichment opportunities in the arts, music, sports, and more offered through Milwaukee Recreation. If you’d like some great local resources to keep your child reading and engaged in literacy activities over the summer, look no further than the Milwaukee Public Library.
Summer Support (Spanish)
Consejos para los padres de WI FACETS: Apoyando el Aprendizaje de su Hijo(a) Fuera de la Escuela
¿Ha escuchado sobre la Diapositiva de Verano? No es algo que encuentre en un patio de recreo. La diapositiva de verano es el término utilizado para explicar lo que puede pasarle a las habilidades de los niños durante el verano cuando no están en la escuela – pueden deslizarse hacia atrás.
Los niños solo usan el 14% de su tiempo en la escuela en un año. Eso significa que si pasan un tercio de su tiempo en casa y en la comunidad viendo la televisión, ¡en realidad están pasando más tiempo enfrente de la pantalla de lo que están en la escuela!
¿Qué significa esto para los niños? Un niño puede perder hasta 3 meses de destrezas de lectura durante el verano. Cuando los niños regresan a la escuela en el otoño, los maestros pueden pasar de 4 a 6 semanas enseñando habilidades que los estudiantes ya aprendieron el año anterior. Pero hay buenas noticias – usando sólo de 2 a 3 horas a la semana leyendo en el verano puede ayudar a prevenir esta diapositiva ¡son sólo 20 minutos al día!
De hecho, leer 20 minutos al día fuera de la escuela todo el tiempo es importante, no sólo en el verano. Los estudios han demostrado que la lectura que se hace fuera de la escuela, ¡hace a los mejores estudiantes en la escuela! La mejor manera de ayudar a los estudiantes a leer más en casa, es asegurarse de que tienen acceso a libros que son interesantes para ellos. Hay muchos recursos en línea para ayudarle a hacer esto – algunos de ellos se pueden encontrar en la página web de WI FACETS y en su Caja de Herramientas para Estudiantes de MPS
Si está interesado(a) en apoyar el aprendizaje de su hijo(a) durante el verano, consulte los programas de verano ofrecidos por MPS. También hay una gran lista de recursos en la comunidad para que los niños descubran, si se desplaza hacia abajo y mira el lado derecho de la página. Déle un vistazo a las oportunidades de enriquecimiento durante el verano, en las artes, música, deportes, y mucho más ofrecidos a través de Recreación en Miwaukee. Si le gustaría algunos recursos locales para mantener a su(s) hijo(a)s leyendo, y comprometido(a)s en actividades de lectoescritura durante el verano, no busque más allá, solo en las, Bibliotecas Públicas de Milwaukee.