Jane Co is the intake coordinator and college advisor at Asian American Civic Association ESOL programs. She leads college workshops throughout the levels and guides students to navigate the college application process. She also helps the program graduates transition to college and stays in touch until they complete their college studies.
This brief, published May 2020, explores the benefits of Success Coaching as reported in focus groups by over 50 students across ten North Carolina community colleges. Students who were assigned Success Coaches shared their candid feedback regarding their experiences and perceptions with respect to the benefits of having a Success Coach.
Use this checklist, based on the Massachusetts Flexible Framework for Implementing Trauma Informed Educational Programs, to guide your program’s self-reflection as it relates to leadership, environment, and access towards creating a trauma informed education program. Areas of self-reflection include: program culture and infrastructure, staff training, links to mental health agencies, academic and non-academic strategies, and school policies and procedures.
This peer support resource guide consists of clinical and non-clinical peer-driven resources in MA that support addiction and mental health recovery.
Resources listed include:
Harvard University’s Implicit Association Test (IAT), part of Project Implicit, is a resource that enables individuals to better understand their own implicit biases and reflect on how those biases influence our beliefs, actions, decisions, and attitudes.
Individuals are invited to select an IAT from a list of topics related to health and social attitudes including, but not limited to, age, race, religion, gender and employment, sexual orientation, drug and alcohol consumption, mental health, and many more.
Laura Kiernan has taught workplace education with JVS’s Business Services Department for over seven years. She has a B.A. in Anthropology from UMASS Amherst and a TEFL Certificate from The Boston Language Institute. She enjoys traveling and reading.
