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Naviance Forums
Naviance is a web based program that empowers students to engage in planning for their futures. All families at SPHS have access to personalized tools for self-discovery, skills exploration, career preparation, and college planning. Watch grade-level presentations by SPHS Counselors. Click here for a login tutorial.
- SPUSD Multi-Tiered Systems of Support for SEL
- Sound the Alarm for Kids
- Experts warn U.S. teens are experiencing a mental health crisis
- Understanding Youth Depression
- When Children Suffer
- A surprising remedy for teens in mental health crisis
- Leveraging the science of stress
- How our schools can address California’s youth mental health crisis — now
- ‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens
- Why Youth Mental Health Matters
- California's Worsening Mental Health Crisis Starts Young
- Youth Mental Health Crisis Worsens amid a Shortage of Professional Help Providers
- AAP-AACAP-CHA Declaration of a National Emergency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Youth mental health crisis is overwhelming ERs
- How coronavirus stress may scramble our brains
- America’s teens were experiencing a mental health crisis ‘a good 8 years before COVID was on the scene’
- Recommended Book: Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
- Documentary: The Social Dilemma (now on Netflix) Adolescent Mental Health Resources
By working collaboratively on issues, PTAs and PTSAs, in California and throughout the nation, are a powerful force to secure adequate laws and public policy that are best for the care and protection of children and youth. Want to get involved? Contact president@sphsptsa.net.
California PTA Take Action Focus Areas
California PTA Position Statements on Key Issues
California State PTA Urges Support of Prop 28: Art and Music in Public Schools
The passage of Proposition 28 is expected to generate more than $900 million a year in dedicated new funding for arts and music education for all public schools across California – without raising taxes. This article about Proposition 28 provides more details on where those funds will come from, how they will be used, and how they will particularly benefit schools where the arts are often lacking.
New Funds for Arts Education in Action Last school year, districts around the state began receiving money from Proposition 28, the Arts & Music in Schools Act, a NEW source of funding for the arts. How much money is your child’s school receiving? How do you know how the money is being spent? What are the critical components of strong arts education programs? How can you help? Join Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area, Arts for LA, CA PTA, Create CA and Friends of Sacramento Arts to learn about several case studies of schools that are successfully expanding access to arts education using Prop 28 funds and walk away with clear steps you can take to support arts education in your child’s school.