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Board hears update on 'Our Healing Is in Our Hands' wellness work; staff say centers stretched but expanding supports

San Francisco Board of Education · November 9, 2021
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Summary

SFUSD staff reported progress expanding peer wellness coaching, adding 6.6 FTE therapists to high school wellness centers and piloting a five-year middle-school wellness grant; board members pressed for faster, site-level responses to recent student disclosures.

District staff updated the Board of Education on Nov. 9 about implementation of the board'a's 2019 'Our Healing Is in Our Hands' resolution, which aims to expand preventative wellness services and student leadership in health.

Student-and-family-services leaders said the district has hired 6.6 full-time-equivalent therapists to strengthen high-school wellness centers, expanded peer wellness-coaching programs and is leveraging grants and…

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