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4 2. Help students and youth build resiliency, enhance social-emotional intelligence, manage stress, create balance in their lives, and improve overall wellness. Schools Town Government Community •Expand,initiate and coordinate evidence-based •Establish a Youth Center(possibly at the Lexington •Organize community forums and education programs Social-Emotional Learning programs with the aim of Community Center)operated by youth themselves coordinated by the Community Resources for Youth ensuring consistency,continuity,and alignment of SEL and a Youth Center Board comprised of adults and Working Group on topics such as: efforts K-12 youth to provide administration and support for the • social-emotional learning and building resiliency Youth Center • mindfulness-based stress reduction •Implement programs to teach children how to approaches manage emotions,stress,anxiety,and build resiliency •Provide free or low-cost access to stress relieving • stress-relief techniques and activities activities,such as yoga,recreation,and art,through • role of sleep in learning and mood regulation, •Expand Professional Learning for teachers on how to the Town,the Community Center,the Youth Center, good sleep hygiene to improve well-being create pro-social classrooms,and help students and other sites • how to balance academic achievement and manage stress and build resiliency emotional well-being •Provide online listings of both town-sponsored and • improving work-family balance •Evaluate effectiveness of current programs and p g y outside resources in the community for stress consider alternative approaches for reducing stress management,health,and wellness •Work with local business and community groups to and building resiliency at all levels,e.g.morning offer wellness programs for parents and youth meeting time,intervention/exploratory blocks,LHS •Work with community and business leaders to engage extended homerooms youth in community service programs including •Work with town youth services to establish interning and mentoring programs community peer leadership and peer mentor •Initiate pilot programs and expand existing initiatives programs for teens that complement in school peer to integrate mindfulness-based stress reduction leadership programs practices into all schools •Develop a parent's guide to social-emotional learning •Offer and expand wellness program for teachers and and educate parents on ways to complement social staff to reduce and manage their own stress emotional learning practices from school with their •Reinstate health education in elementary schools and children at home increase frequency of health and wellness programs in middle and high school •Support community events sponsored by the town, businesses and community organizations that •Develop and encourage ways to foster personal promote social connection,family-centered fun, connections and mentorship opportunities between relaxation,and stress-relief,e.g. Discovery Day teachers/staff and individual students •Enable the peer leadership program to expand by providing additional staff resources •Increase number and access to yoga classes in middle and high school