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Happy School Social Work Week friends!

The last year has been challenging. It has been a year of dark times and tumultuous waves. A world-wide pandemic and racial inequities have caused anxiety, stress, and turmoil. Yet, School
Social Workers have been a light of HOPE for the students, families, and communities which they serve. School Social Workers are a true beacon of hope for the hurting, marginalized, anxious, or weary. School Social Workers are valuable all the time!

But, this week, join us in Celebrating School Social Work Week 2021!


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As School Social Workers we not only advocate for our students and families but our TEACHERS as well.

1. "Now is the time to commit to prioritizing public schools and the 90% of Hoosier kids who rely on them. The current budget bill (HB 1001) prioritizes expanding private school vouchers to wealthier families and creating yet another privatization program with education savings accounts, costing a total of $491 million. These are dollars coming out of funding for public schools.
Indiana already ranks last in our region in teacher pay and 41st in the nation in per pupil funding." Indiana's private school voucher program is already the largest in the country.
2. "SB 251... singles out educators who choose to pay Association dues through payroll deduction – a routine practice that has been available to employees for decades; not only with regard to their professional union dues but also with regard to everything from health insurance premium payments to various charitable and philanthropic causes.
This bill is an attempt to single out teachers to weaken ties they have with their associations by overregulating at the state and local levels what is, for every other public employee, a routine administrative function."
3. On top of this, Indiana teachers are being DENIED access to the COVID-19 vaccine. When offered the opportunity to get on the waitlist for leftover vaccines at certain pharmacies, teachers jumped at the chance, but when the governor found out, he put the kibosh on that.

We hope everyone is using the virtual calm room as another resource during this time. Enjoy ❤️

NAFC releases "Virtual Calm Room" featuring free resources NEW ALBANY — A local school district is hoping to provide some relief to students, parents and teachers during a stressful time.

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Please check out the latest Virtual Calm Room from the NAFCS School Social Workers.

NAFCS Community Connection
New Albany Floyd County Consolidated School Corporation
New Albany Housing Authority
Hope Southern Indiana
SOS Floyd County PAC

HOME | Virtual Calm Room Life can sometimes be overwhelming and it can be hard to work through it even more during difficult times. The hope is that the Virtual Calming Room will help to assist you in identifying different strategies for managing emotions and finding coping skills for you or your family. We hope thes...

Check out for tips and resources on being well during this time!

Helping Hoosiers Maintain Their Well-Being | Be Well Indiana Find resources compiled by the Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction designed to help Hoosiers stay connected and maintain their well-being.

Safe Care during this time is so important!

Our NAFCS Social Workers and Case Managers have put together some self-care tips to help staff, parents and students during this time. How are you making sure you are taking care of yourself right now?
Link: https://www.nafcs.k12.in.us/2020/04/01/self-care-tips/

Hope Southern Indiana

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Parents, even teacher parents, give yourself and your kids grace right now. And when you think you’ve given enough, give some more. BE who they need you to be, even if that means academic work doesn’t get to take priority. If you put too much burden on yourself it will be difficult to remain regulated and navigate this with your kids.

Indiana Governor Holcomb’s COVID-19 address on March 19, 2020, included the closure of all Indiana schools until May 1, 2020. In light of this news, New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corp. is working on an eLearning/non-traditional instructional plan for our students. Details of this plan will be shared early next week.

The following Indiana state assessments have also been canceled for 2020:
IREAD
ILEARN
IAM
ISPROUT
WIDA

The ISTEP+ Part 1 and 2 First Time Administration (grade 10 only) is canceled for the remaining duration in Spring 2020. Any student that tested during the ISTEP+ Spring Retest 2020 will still receive results. We will get those results to students when they become available.

Please continue to watch our social media accounts, website, and your email for future updates.

We are starting our emergency FREE meals for children age 18 and under on March 23rd!!

For our New Albany friends ...

For all our Greater Clark friends!

Lunch is being served at various locations in the community this week for our students. Please see the times and locations below.

Things might seem pretty stressful my friends but don’t forget to take care of your mental health too!

Keeping everyone in the loop on all the services available during this time! Please reach out if you have questions!

If you are in need of food during this time please reach out! Hope Southern Indiana is a great resource!

We will be ensuring things like this get push out to everyone as soon as it becomes available.

An important update from Duke Energy & Piedmont Natural Gas regarding

Taking Care of Your Mental Health in the Face of Uncertainty Taking Care of Your Mental Health in the Face of Uncertainty AFSP Share563TweetShare By Doreen Marshall, Ph.D. Human beings like certainty. We are hard-wired to want to know what is happening when and to notice things that feel threatening to us. When things feel uncertain or when we don’t general...

Often as a school social worker we are seen as the advocates for our kids and parents, but we are also BIG advocates for the teachers we work with every day!

Just a small snippet of what it means to be a social worker!

As we celebrate and we remember why we do what we do....

This week is School Social Worker Week! A time to reflect and share the advocacy provided by school social workers to students, families, and the community daily. Students face enormous challenges in achieving academic success.

Real talk via

How schools are benefiting from having mental health providers.

Deep breaths and ‘brain breaks’: How extra funds for mental health are transforming one Aurora school Districtwide, Aurora has used new local tax money to hire more than 70 mental health staff members, including social workers, psychologists, and counselors.

Learn more by attending any of these meetings.

Join us tonight or Wednesday at 6 PM for a Town Hall Meeting regarding a potential school safety referendum. The community is invited and encouraged to attend. Find more information about the individual meetings, please visit https://www.nafcs.k12.in.us/board-agenda/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=New%20Albany%20Floyd%20County%20Consolidated%20School%20Corporation.