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  1. What or who do we need in school boards and districts to help parents advocate for their children?

  2. Schools say they want students to self-advocate until that advocacy challenges status quo, exposes barriers to education and learning, and makes school staff uncomfortable.

  3. Road map for educational access: An Individual Education Plan for a student with disabilities should be a road map for educational access, support, and accommodation, not a manual for compliance or a record of deficits.

  4. Men cry, men break down, men suffer from eating disorders and body dysmorphia, men have suicidal thoughts, men die by suicide, men suffer with mental illness. It's not unmanly to struggle.

  5. Saying someone can't be sad because someone else may have it worse is like saying someone can't be happy because someone else may have it better.

  6. Defining Brave: getting out of bed and facing your fears, asking for help, showing up for exams, standing up for yourself, taking good care of yourself, starting something new

  7. Let people know they matter to you. Call that friend. Check in with that coworker. Just be kind.

    By mentalhealthwmaddy @madmentalhealth

  8. If you’re scared someone will react negatively to you setting a boundary with them, that’s concrete proof that the boundary is necessary.

    By jules rylan

  9. Strategies to Support Students. Listen: Ask students about their feelings & validate them. Support: Practice calming strategies with students. Space: Give students time and space to recharge and reset.

  10. The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, suffering, struggle, and loss and have found their way out of the depths.