Brighton High School

CE 2010/ENG 12b Final Project

Name: Castin Speck Title of Plan: Safety Starts with You

Action Plan

Goal: Give Brighton High students better access to mental health support.

Objectives:
1. Have Brighton hire a full time therapist or similar person with actual experience dealing with teenagers and their mental health issues.
This addition to the administration will be heavily advertised so students can get to know the new person and talk to them about their job.

2. Have said therapist or a team of professionals teach students, teachers, and possibly parents about what the signs of certain mental issues
are. Teachers will also get even more training so they can recognize if a student is struggling and how to help. Counselors should also get a lot
of training because they are counselors and should know how to help.

3. Integrate social-emotional learning into classes, possibly in flex. This will teach students anger management, empathy, and understanding
emotions.
Objective 1: Have Brighton hire a full time therapist or similar person with actual experience dealing with teenagers and their
mental health issues.
Implementation Evaluation

What evidence indicates How and when will

What needs to be done? By whom and when? What resources?
success? evidence be gathered?
The people who are
responsible for hiring
new employees would be
Brighton administrators the people in charge in
need to look into possible this situation. They
candidates for this job. should begin looking for a
They can do this the same candidate as soon as
way they hire teachers. possible. Possible Need access to the Evidence will be gathered
Success is reached when a
They also have to make candidates should be internet and whatever by the school
candidate is found who is
sure the possible chosen before the end of way the school finds new administration, because
perfect for the position
candidate is qualified this school year so they hires. Also, the new hire they are the ones in
and once they become a
enough to do this job. can get an impression of will need a space to work, charge of hiring this
full time employee.
Finally, the school should the job. The new hire will an office of some kind. person.
do some kind of temp-to- work for about 2 weeks
hire so they can be really then the school will
sure this candidate is decide if they are the one.
good enough for the job. If they are not a good fit
then this process will be
repeated until the perfect
person is found.

Objective 2: Have said therapist or a team of professionals teach students, teachers, and possibly parents about what the signs of
certain mental issues are. Teachers will also get even more training so they can recognize if a student is struggling and how to help.
Counselors should also get a lot of training because they are counselors and should know how to help.
Implementation Evaluation

What evidence indicates How and when will

What needs to be done? By whom and when? What resources?
success? evidence be gathered?
The school will need to
The administration needs find someone or a group
to schedule the of people to come and
Need to schedule 2
assemblies and talk to teach these lessons. A
separate assemblies one Evidence will be gathered
teachers about what times large area like the
for teachers and one for by the administration
would be best to have a auditorium will be needed Success is reached when
parents. The parent because they are the ones
speaker come into class. to hold the assembly. both assemblies have
assembly will be heavily who are scheduling these
These things should be Finally an email should be occurred and all flex
advertised so parents events and therefore
scheduled before the end sent to all parents and classes have been visited.
know it’s happening. know when or if they
of this school year teachers telling them
Students will have this happened.
because it doesn’t depend about the details of the
talk in their flex classes.
on the new school mental meeting, when and where
health person being hired. it is, and what the goals
are.

Objective 3: Integrate social-emotional learning into classes, possibly in flex. This will teach students anger management, empathy,
and understanding emotions.
 Implementation Evaluation

What evidence indicates How and when will

What needs to be done? By whom and when? What resources?
success? evidence be gathered?
The meeting will be
A meeting with teachers
scheduled by the
and administration,
administration and the
possibly the one from
teachers and all other
objective 2, needs to be
staff will be in attendance. This evidence will be
held. This meeting will
The team of mental health Success is indicated when gathered by the
teach teachers about The same resources as
professionals will lead the all classes have been administration going
social-emotional learning before will be required
meeting. This should take taught and this emotional around and asking
and how they can because this is just adding
place at the same time as learning has been teachers how they have
integrate it into their onto that.
objective 2. Next, the integrated into classes. incorporated this new
classes. Once each week
same team of teaching style.
the same team of people
professionals will come to
teaching the teachers will
the school and teach each
come to every flex class
flex class social-emotional
and teach the students.
learning once a week.