Supports for Students
The resources presented here highlight a variety of ways to help students during COVID-19 and remote teaching.
Serving students with basic needs
Highline’s Basic Needs Canvas page – provides links to housing, food, safety, emotional, and other needs
Webinar – Meeting basic needs at Highline: How we can support students outside and inside of the classroom – Presented by Shawna Freeman, Mariela Esquivias Mendez, and Bob Scribner
Webinar – Serving students with basic needs insecurities during COVID 19 pandemic – From CORA Learning – Facilitated by Southwestern College and San Diego State University. Practitioner experts discuss patterns of acute basic needs and promising practices for serving students with basic needs insecurities.
Understanding how trauma impacts BIPOC students: How to utilize a trauma-informed approach
Understanding trauma and its long-term impacts on mental and behavioral health is imperative to developing and maintaining trauma informed systems of care within the college setting. Recognizing the challenges in living many students face is critical to being able to reach students by understanding what trauma is and how it affects different populations.
In this presentation from Samora Covington and Morgan Rudley, best practices for appropriately addressing trauma with students are discussed as well as resources to help become a trauma informed organization.
Supporting students from foster care & unaccompanied homeless youth: The passport scholarship
The Passport to Careers Scholarship is a Washington state scholarship for alumni of foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth until the age of 26. This presentation from Kathy Nguyen, Gabriela ‘Gaby’ Osorio, and Lauren Wearsch aims to educate the campus community about the scholarship program, the demographics and needs of Passport scholars, the importance of culturally-competent/trauma-informed support in education, and the seven life domains framework for former foster youth.
KCLS and Highline library working together for student success
This presentation from Allison Reibel & Sam Sermeño introduces Highline Library’s partnership with KCLS and presents a video created for Highline by KCLS librarians highlighting free public library resources such as language-learning, e-books and audiobooks, financial assistance services, and much more.
Faculty and staff will learn to utilize public library resources, such as language-learning, e-books and audiobooks, and professional development tools, and share these resources with students. Presentation recording Presentation slides
Trauma Stewardship
The Trauma Stewardship Institute offers practical tools for cultivating the deep self-knowledge and systemic insights that are at the core of trauma stewardship. Download their tiny survival guide, guide for when experiencing overwhelm and trauma, and map for managing one’s day/life.
Professional development opportunities
There are no upcoming events at this time.
Additional resources and scholarship
Highline Library’s Racial Trauma and Self-Care Libguide
Highline Library’s Trauma-Informed Practices Libguide
The Highline faculty advising Canvas shell has a list of student resource areas for students. For each area, you will find a summary of services offered, a list of cues to listen for indicating a need for a referral to that area, and recommendations on the best way to get the student in touch with someone.