Does a School-wide Intervention to Improve School Climate Have a Long-Term Effect on Middle School Student Behavior and Well-Being?

Lake and Dimmitt present a brief overview and analysis of the article, Promoting Social Inclusion in Schools: A Group-Randomized Trial of Effects on Student Health Risk Behavior and Well-Being, originally published in the American Journal of Public Health. The authors present a summary of the key components of the article including the introduction, method and results of the study. They offer an additional analysis of implications for future practice discussing how the Gatehouse Project intervention leads to positive outcomes for key student risk behaviors through improvements in school climate

Enacting indigenous space: weaving our place

Enacting Indigenous space is not only a matter of decolonisation but also a matter of anticolonial resistance (Mahuika, 2008; Pihama et al, 2004; Smith, 2000). As we continue to practice the ways of knowing, being and doing of our ancestors, we bring forward the past, into the now and thus become the future. Within Kaupapa Māori many moments provide a space for the meeting of the yesterday, the now and the tomorrow. The current revival and dissemination of Māori weaving practices within Australia is focused on the restoration of the rights of Māori people and the continued development of tino rangatiratanga, self-determination and sovereignty for all Māori people beyond the shores of Aotearoa, New Zealand. This work explores the experience of the alignment of past, present and future, through relational autoethnographic moments. In particular the relational moments experienced when women weave kākahu, clothing and korowai, cloaks. Employing the writing method of threes by Richardson (2014), I explore the embodied experience of this meeting of moments, when three moments become the simultaneous one. Thus producing the healing space where past traumas are transformed

A transformative journey of cultural recovery: Te Ao Maori

Historical and contemporary cultural trauma continues to impact on the health and well-being of Indigenous people globally. Located within Australia this thesis employs Kaupapa Maori theory and autoethnography to explore a process of cultural recovery and healing. This is a self-decolonising journey from cultural trauma to recovery, through the researchers cultural immersion within te ao Maori. This interwoven approach speaks to the new era of qualitative social research. Concluding that cultural recovery and the healing of cultural trauma are connected to the core of self and to subjective experiences of well-being, influencing health outcomes for Maori people

Capturing smoke: exploring literature on end-of life care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples end-of-life care requires a unique set of skills and understanding. This paper presents findings from a systematic literature review of culturally appropriate end-of-life care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within the Australian health care setting. The Western biomedical model of health care which influences the Australian health care system has struggled to adequately meet the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, particularly towards the end of their lives (McGrath & Phillips, 2008). Programs such the Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA) (Prior, 2009), Yuendumu Old People’s Program (Smith, Grundy & Nelson, 2010) and resources such as the Advanced Care Yarning Booklet (Jones, Burgess & Seal, 2013) and models such as the Living Model (McGrath, 2010) have been identified. However, there appears to be little evidence of how these models impact on the lived experience of end-of-life care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in particular within the urban and semi-rural setting. This is becoming more significant due to the younger age at which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their families are required to make end-of-life decisions. Of particular concern is the lack of acknowledgement of the significant spiritual and cultural burden experienced by communities

Evidence-Based, Data-Driven Comprehensive School Counseling: An Overview

Presented at the 2016 Evidenced-Based School Counseling Conference this presentation outlines and summarizes the most cutting edge in school counseling researc

Mindful or mind full? the effectiveness of a small scale mindfulness-based intervention in a mainstream primary school with year four children

This research aimed to establish the effectiveness of a mindfulness-based intervention facilitated by a trainee educational psychologist and a class teacher, with a class of Year Four children. The study took a pragmatist approach to research, whereby a mixed method approach was considered the best way to address the study’s research questions. The Year Four children in a mainstream primary school participated in a six week mindfulness-based intervention, with activities from ‘60 Mindful Minutes’ (The Nurture Group Network, 2014). Quantitative data were collected and analysed in relation to the children’s social and emotional well-being, levels of mindfulness, and observable behaviour (peer relationship difficulties, prosocial behaviour, conduct problems and hyperactivity and inattention) at four time-points. Qualitative data was collected at follow-up: the class teacher was interviewed and the children were asked to provide written feedback. Both the quantitative and qualitative data indicated that the children became more “mindful” after completing the intervention. Additionally, positive effects for their social and emotional well-being were found. The intervention was well-accepted by the children and their class teacher, and evidence was found at follow-up for the maintenance of mindfulness practices. The findings provide positive implications for practice, in regards to educational settings and educational psychologists

Health education programs: a global opportunity for reconciliation

Health Education Programs (HEP) provide an opportunity to address many of the calls to action for reconciliation. This workshop will explore current global strategies for addressing the reconciliation recommendations within international HEP. Indigenous nursing associations make several key recommendations on how HEP can make a difference to Indigenous reconciliation outcomes. This workshop invites the participants to contribute to the discussion on best models for the development and delivery of HEP, which aim to address these recommendations. Aligns With Truth and Reconciliation: This workshops aligns with the actions on health (18, 19), Church Apologies and Reconciliation (61i, ii, iii, iv), exploring the concerns of increasing Indigenous student enrolment and graduation numbers, the inclusion of culturally appropriate curriculum and localised decision making

The Flight Track Noise Impact Model

To meet its objective of assisting the U.S. aviation industry with the technological challenges of the future, NASA must identify research areas that have the greatest potential for improving the operation of the air transportation system. To accomplish this, NASA is building an Aviation System Analysis Capability (ASAC). The Flight Track Noise Impact Model (FTNIM) has been developed as part of the ASAC. Its primary purpose is to enable users to examine the impact that quieter aircraft technologies and/or operations might have on air carrier operating efficiency at any one of 8 selected U.S. airports. The analyst selects an airport and case year for study, chooses a set of flight tracks for use in the case, and has the option of reducing the noise of the aircraft by 3, 6, or 10 decibels. Two sets of flight tracks are available for each airport: one that represents actual current conditions, including noise abatement tracks, which avoid flying over noise-sensitive areas; and a second set that offers more efficient routing. FTNIM computes the resultant noise impact and the time and distance saved for each operation on the more efficient, alternate tracks. Noise impact is characterized in three ways: the size of the noise contour footprint, the number of people living within the contours, and the number of homes located in the same contours. Distance and time savings are calculated by comparing the noise abatement flight path length to the more efficient alternate routing