Webinar - Supporting and Preparing At-Risk Kids for Summer Break (1.5 CEUs)

Thursday, June 6 @ 11:00 - 12:30pm EST

Speakers: Cristina M. Costa, LICSW, Clinician

Virtual on Zoom

Hosted by the NASW-RI Chapter (CEUs are also approved for NASW-MA attendees)

What happens to the students we serve for a full school year in the two months of summer break? In K-12 education, when thinking about summer break, it is usually focused on academic loss and how to prevent it. However, what about a student's mental health, their social emotional skills, their support systems or general day to day feeling of safety. For the most part, summer is supposed to be relaxing, stress reducing and fun; but when it comes to the students that we serve, it also comes with a loss of support, routine, regular meals and challenges on how to self-regulate without their school community. Summer can create more risk factors for our students who are considered at-risk, due to their home and community environments. We will explore steps we can take to prevent a student’s mental health from declining and maintain the work you have done with your students.  

Learning Objectives:

• Identify students at need for summer support 

• Strengthening students’ mental health for the summer

• Identify family and student summer 

• Creating summer safety plan

• Resources/Connections 

Fees: $15 for NASW members and $35 for non-members

Please note: This webinar’s Zoom Meeting link and course evaluation form details will be shared a day before the webinar.

Speaker: Cristina Costa, LICSW

Cristina Costa has been a NASW member since 2012 and serves on the NASW Program Planning Committee for our annual NASW Symposium. She obtained her Masters in Social Worker from Boston College, in addition to her two Bachelor's Degrees, a B.A. in Psychology and B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Rhode Island. Cristina is an alum of URI’s Talent Development, as well as a Ronald E. McNair Scholar. In 2004, Cristina became the first Providence Law Enforcement Advocate with the Providence Police Department, Day One and Sojourner House, where she worked alongside the Special Victims Unit in assisting victims of sexual assault, child molestation, domestic violence and hate crimes. In total, Cristina has over 20 years of experience working in the field of social work with many different populations including youth in residential care, victims of crime, foster care, adoption, LGBTQ+, first generation families, elementary/middle school students and families, emergency room and inpatient medical services and operations for afterschool programs.