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Welcome to SAY Connect!


SAY - Social Advocates for Youth - provides support, prevention and education to students and families throughout the school year in seven east suburban school districts in Cuyahoga County. In addition, the SAY Coalition provides leadership opportunities for youth as well as education for parents and professionals. During these uncertain times of COVID-19, we would like to continue to connect with our students and their families. In the upcoming weeks, we will provide a brief weekly newsletter focused on a specific topic each issue.

We hope you find these newsletters helpful and informative. You'll be hearing more from us next week!
You don’t have to control your thoughts, you just have to stop letting them control you.
– Dan Millman

Weekly Focus:
Managing Anxiety


This week, we've gathered tips on managing your anxiety and fears during the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.  Check out these articles from Channel Kindness and UC Berkeley!

Parents, we have a special SAY Virtual Workshop just for you!  We're offering a class on Resilience for parents and professionals on July 31.  Take a look further down in this newsletter for more info.

Last Chance to Register!


SAY Virtual Summer Institute
Building Resilience with Laurel Green Kaiser


Today at 1:00 pm, join us for a special workshop that will help you find out how resilient you really are and develop some new techniques to increase your resilience no matter where you're starting from.  Come to just listen or share, sharing will be optional.

To register visit:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/109834736654
Channel Kindness Presents
6 Tips to Help You Cope with Anxiety

Channel Kindness is a great mental health resource for young people and parents.  The website features helpful tips and articles, uplifting news, and profiles of young people making a change in our world.  

Check out this piece on coping with anxiety! 
https://www.channelkindness.org/hi-anxiety/
For Parents:  Managing Fear and Anxiety around Coronavirus
 
This handy guide from UC Berkeley offers tips for parents and teens on managing your emotions in the middle of the ongoing pandemic. 
 
Some ideas include:

 • Keep things in perspective. Limit worry and agitation by lessening the time you spend watching or listening to upsetting media coverage. Remember to take a break from watching the news and focus on the things that are positive in your life and things you have control over.

• Be mindful of your assumptions about others.  Self-awareness is important in not stigmatizing others in our community.

• Stay healthy. Adopting healthy hygienic habits such as washing your hands with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, covering your mouth and nose with a tissue or your sleeve (not your hands) when coughing or sneezing and wearing face masks/coverings and maintain a physical distance of six feet from people.

• Keep connected. Maintaining social networks can help maintain a sense of normalcy, and provide valuable outlets for sharing feelings and relieving stress


To read more, visit: https://uhs.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/fearsanxiety-coronavirus.pdf
Upcoming SAY Events

SAY Virtual Summer Institute - Laurel Green Kaiser
July 8th at 1:00pm

Join SAY and Laurel Greene Kaiser, LISW-S for an energizing and interactive online workshop for teens on building your own resilience.

Resilience is the foundation for personal success, it is what helps us navigate and bounce back from any challenge in our life, whether that challenge is big or small. This workshop will help you get to know yourself better and understand how your strengths can help you navigate any fear, stressor, difficulty, or set back.
This workshop will give you the opportunity to not only find out how resilient you are now, but ways you can increase your own resilience no matter where you're starting from. Come to just listen or share, sharing will be optional.

To Register:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/109834736654

SAY Virtual Institute - Joshua Hill the Education and Outreach Specialist of CRCC
July 15 at 6:30pm

 
Join SAY and Joshua Hill for a discussion on Bystander Intervention, including how to handle racial profiling and what role you can play in your schools and communities to see the changes necessary for advancement as a society. Learn how you can safely intervene in situations and conversations that are unsafe.

To Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/109835117794
 
Theater Basics with Jimmie Woody
July 29th at 6:30 pm

Join SAY and Jimmie Woody for a theater basics program on Zoom. Jimmie Woody is an actor, playwright and director who received his M.F.A in acting from Columbia University. Mr. Woody has engaged many teens over the years in the SAY Summer Leadership Institute and the SAY 8th Grade Youth Forum and always receives rave reviews. His theater basics program can help with public speaking and increase self-esteem. Don’t miss out on the fun!

To Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/111354014856
SAY Virtual Forum for Parents and Professionals

It’s Okay to Not Be Okay: Building Resilience During a Pandemic
July 31st at 9:00 am

 
For the first time in our lifetime, we are all collectively experiencing a global pandemic. We may be ‘in this together’ but each of us is having a very individualized experience.  

This workshop will discuss the complexities of trauma and stress and describe the practice of building personal resilience, which will go beyond the traditional self-care models.  By creating one’s own personal resilience practice we can increase our capacity to show up sustainably in our work and personal life, and model this for the youth with whom we work and live.  

Participants will receive 1.5 free CEUs.  

To Register, visit:  
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/its-okay-to-not-be-okay-tickets-112148653642
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Resources
Agency Partner Contact Information
FrontLine Service Mobile Crisis hotline 216-623-6888
Cuyahoga County Children and Family Services 216-696-KIDS (5437)
Cleveland Rape Crisis Center 216-619-6192, 440-423-2020
Domestic Violence & Child Advocacy Center 216-391-HELP (4357)
SAY Director
Chris Ruma-Cullen
cullenc@bellefairejcb.org


Shaker Heights High School / Mayfield High School / SAY Coalition Coordinator
Nancy Schaumburg
schaumburgn@bellefairejcb.org


Orange High School
Jessica Vendetti
vendittij@bellefairejcb.org


Solon Middle School
Cindy Johnson
johnsoncy@bellefairejcb.org


Chagrin Falls High School
Tania Gordon
gordont@bellefairejcb.org


Beachwood Middle and High School
Marlon Walker
walkerm@bellefairejcb.org


Monticello Middle School
Shavaun Tucker
tuckers@bellefairejcb.org
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