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- Achieving hold health, mind, body and spirit,
was an exciting opportunity for us
to increase our skills to serve the community
and in alignment with a commitment
to strengthen our integrated care efforts.
There were many elements that we learned.
We were already incorporating in our work.
And this training allowed us to do so more intentionally
and refine, and practice, and add skills.
- This training allowed us to learn
from the best in the country.
- We created information that was made available
about how to protect the community against COVID.
We also created information about mental health.
We took it out to the community
and met them where we were at.
- When we received the invitation to participate
in the net learn motivational interviewing track.
Our team was absolutely thrilled.
We saw it as an opportunity to broaden
and just sharpen our existing skills
in order for us to develop
real authentic relationships with our clients.
So hold at the center,
what it is that they want to focus on?
And to understand how they plan to get there.
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- The project venture is a Samsung evidence-based curriculum
that is used to teach middle school aged kids,
life skills, and coping skills
and just a prevention tool to get them busy
and to get them on the right path.
It's focused on outdoor activities
and school activities, weekend activities.
They're responsible for themselves
and they have to mature through the program.
- We are excited to implement the activities we learn,
and to see how the outdoor activities
can positively impact our youth and their families.
We envision incorporating our cultural lessons
and being in the outdoors
to encourage our youth to work hard
and reaching their goals.
- We began implementing play about three years ago
and we have found that of the, you know
myriad evidence-based interventions that we implement here
in our therapeutic day treatment program.
It is the only intervention,
that we've been able to implement
without making adaptations or modifications.
- Our youth have been consistently traumatized
and many times they're socialized to escalate quickly.
That's the way they deal with stress.
So having a strategy for de-escalation
is crucial and play offices there.
- Play stands for preventing long-term anger
and aggression and youth.
And it's a way to find out their emotional strengths
and weaknesses while they're playing on the court.
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It was a good time about libraries.
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All of us,
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we've learned over years through a lot of sports.
You can find out
a lot about people's emotional strengths and weaknesses
based on how they navigate these relational conflicts.
So we've been using basketball
as a way to find out what stresses young people out.
And how well do they navigate those conflicts.
And we've noticed that the same way
that you problem solve on the streets or in a classroom
or in a family situation you can see that on the court.
And if we can intervene with young people
while they're managing their stress
either well or not, well,
we can transfer that skill set of stress management
to the street, or to the classroom, or to family.
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