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Get Plugged In
Student Leadership Teams (GPI)
Get Plugged In
A School-Based Mental Health Solution
GET PLUGGED IN Leadership Program (GPI) is an innovative and effective program model that strives “to help 3rd-8th graders develop coping and critical thinking skills through social-emotional learning.”
This program focuses on the child’s mental wellness. The intent of the program is to teach 3rd-8th graders positive coping and critical thinking skills using trauma-informed care and social-emotional learning approaches to build positive life skills. The program provides adult support while offering activities that teach 3rd-8th grade students coping skills that give them a positive approach to overcoming daily challenges.
With these skills, children learn to make choices that developmental and emotional resilience and help them to avoid succumbing to drug use and gang activity.
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“The GET PLUGGED IN program helped me by making me a part of a group and teaching me how to work with people.” – MVUSD 5th-grade student – 2017
GPI focuses on the importance of emotional balance as a means to success. Children learn problem-solving, team building, coping skills and service learning.
GPI focuses on the importance of emotional balance as a means to success. Children learn problem-solving, team building, coping skills and service learning.
GET PLUGGED IN IS A 33-WEEK PROGRAM THAT MEETS ONCE A WEEK BEFORE SCHOOL.
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Each trimester has a base theme for learning progression.
Beginning with “Respect, Kindness, and Antibullying,” students move on to “Safety and Overcoming Struggles” to, finally, “Changing My World.”
Students are recruited via school site referral.