Parent Resources

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Counseling Resources

Wellnest – This organization empowers children, adolescents and young adults to get on track to success – to reach goals in school, build healthy relationships, and enjoy emotional well-being. Their team of compassionate professionals offers behavioral counseling and support to individuals and families. Available at various locations. Please visit their site, wellnestla.org/contact/ for the location closest to you.

Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation
FREE THERAPY ONLINE

Available Nationally:

National Suicide Prevention Hotline – This organization provides confidential support for adults and youth in distress, including prevention and crisis resources. Available 24 hours at 1-800-273-8255.
The Trevor Project – This organization provides suicide prevention and crisis intervention for LGBTQ youth between the ages of 13 and 24. Available at 1-866-488-7386 or visit https://www.thetrevorproject.org/.
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America – This organization is a community- based mentorship program. Community-specific program information can be found online at https://www.bbbs.org or by calling (813) 720-8778.

Anti-Bullying/Anti-Discrimination Resources

Parent, Family and Caregivers Resource Page
Cyber-bullying Warning Signs
Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Disability Discrimination Resources
StopBullying.gov Bullying Prevention Training Course
National Alliance for Youth Sports: Bullying Prevention Training
Keenan Bullying Recognition/Response
Cyberbullying – Definition, Prevention, and Reporting
List of LA County Organizations
Bullying Prevention Resources and Support for Students Who Identify or Are Perceived as Neurodivergent
The UC|CSU Collaborative for Neuroscience, Diversity, and Learning partnered with the CDE to build research-based, age-appropriate training to help protect students with neurodivergence from bullying–in real classrooms, real homes, and real communities.

Other Resources

211la.org

Use this site to find resources available in Los Angeles county that can help support your family. There are community based organizations in the county that can help with food, housing and other resources. There is also information on how to connect you with education and child care for your family, as well as family-friendly activities.

Starting Smarter for the CAASPP

Starting Smarter for the ELPAC

These family-focused websites provide resources to facilitate parents’/guardians’ understanding of the scores presented on their child’s Student Score Reports. Using these websites, families can become involved in their child’s educational progress and:

Learn more about the performance areas in each subject and grade.
See sample test questions.
Prepare for parent-teacher conferences with a useful downloadable guide.
Access high-quality resources to support learning at home.

Gang Prevention Resources

GRYD

The GRYD Foundation believes that every youth, regardless of race, gender or geography, should have the resources, opportunities, and systems to lead healthy, fulfilling lives.

Human Trafficking Prevention Resources

211LA
Youth.gov
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)
Netsmartz
Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Registry
Office Of Juvenile Justice
A Child is Missing
Family Watchdog
The Children’s Safety Network
The National Criminal Justice Training Center

Teen Talk/Health Connected Curriculum

Health Connected strives to ensure all young people feel confident and supported to make informed decisions about their own sexual health. This requires honest, unbiased, medically accurate information. It also requires a safe place for teens to articulate their values and ample opportunities to engage with the adults in their lives about sexual health.

As with all of Health Connected’s courses, this curriculum is medically-accurate, free of racial and ethnic biases, is designed to be in compliance with California Education Code requirements and aligned with applicable California Health Education content standards. Teen Talk!

In the sessions covering sexual harassment and human trafficking, we provide legal definitions of sexual harassment, sexual assault, rape, and human trafficking, and provide statistics on the incidence these crimes. Providing these definitions to students ensures that they are well-informed about legal boundaries, for themselves, their partners, and their peers. These topics are required to be covered by California Education Code, however some scenarios provided may not be appropriate for the class, depending on the maturity level, their existing knowledge base, and community norms.

In addressing gender-based violent crimes, it’s important to have discussions throughout Teen Talk about gender stereotypes of men and women. Cultural and social norms of men and women often result in unequal power in relationships, which is a contributing factor to sexually violent crimes. This discussion about gender norms and stereotypes are in important component of this topic because they allow students to explore how to respond to sexual violence and seek consent.

These topics can be difficult for people to discuss. We have intentionally used the term “survivor” instead of “victim” to refer to the individual who had a sexual crime committed against them. The term “survivor” suggests that an individual who has experienced such a crime still maintains agency in their own life – the ability to interpret and communicate about the experience in their own way.

Promise Parent Programming

Promise Parent Programming provides educational, empowerment and advocacy workshop series and support services for parents/caregivers. It serves as a vehicle to empower families to further understand the education school system. Promoting a college going culture, by delivering pathways to college and career readiness through its signature program, Promise Parent College.

Donnell Beverly Jr., School Committee Member

WESTBROOK ENTERPRISES

Donnell Beverly Jr. is the President at Russell Westbrook Enterprises where he leads the enterprise’s business management, real estate, and investment of liquid assets. The Russell Westbrook Enterprise portfolio includes investments in health, fitness, fashion, social media, automobile sales, and more. Prior to his work with Russell Westbrook Enterprises he specialized in the intersection of sports, business management, and real estate.

Donnell also serves on the board of The Why Not? Foundation, the private foundation of Russell and Nina Westbrook.

Donnell was born and raised in South LA and attended Leuzinger High School in Lawndale, CA. He went on to captain the UConn basketball team that won a national championship in 2011.

Jamie Uzeta, School Committee Member

PUBLIC ALLIES

Jaime Ernesto Uzeta is the CEO of Public Allies. Previously, he was the VP of Innovation and Partnerships at BUILD, where he oversaw the organization’s transformational impact efforts. His unique background blends education design, media, technology and public service. Prior to BUILD, Uzeta was a portfolio director at IDEO, the design and innovation firm, where he helped address a variety of systemic challenges in education. Previously, he headed up growth strategy and development for GreatSchools, a digital media group that empowers parents to unlock educational opportunities for their children. In the media space, Uzeta built Participant Media’s digital and TV social action teams, which informed and mobilized audiences around critical social issues. He played a similar role for MTV, where he co-developed the Choose or Lose and Fight for Your Rights initiatives.

Uzeta’s other experience includes a variety of strategy and marketing roles for some of the world’s most recognized brands – including clients such as CNN and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – as well as political positions at the White House and the Departments of Treasury and Commerce. A former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Uzeta currently serves on the national board of Public Allies, a civic service apprenticeship program. He graduated with honors from the University of Houston with a BA in political science and earned his MBA from Columbia University.

Stephen Prough, School Committee Chair

SALEM PARTNERS

Stephen Prough is a Founder of Salem Partners and Salem Partners Wealth Management. In addition to his management responsibilities for Salem Partners’ two main businesses, Prough oversees the firm’s media and entertainment investment banking practice, focusing primarily on mergers and acquisitions advisory services. Prough serves on the investment committees of Salem Partners Wealth Management and SW Contego, a fund of hedge funds established by Salem Partners Wealth Management in 2008. Prior to founding Salem Partners, Prough was a Vice President in the Media and Communications Investment Banking Group of Furman Selz. Prough is a graduate of Harvard College, where he majored in Government and was a Harvard Scholar. Prough serves as the Co-Chair of the LA Promise Fund Board of Directors. Prough is also on the Professional Advisory Counsel of the Motion Picture and Television Fund.

Elizabeth Mann, School Committee Secretary

MAYER BROWN

Elizabeth Mann is a partner in Mayer Brown’s Los Angeles office. She has extensive experience litigating cases in several areas including entertainment, defamation, health care, antitrust, real estate, investment finance, environmental, regulatory and class actions. Mann has handled cases involving motion picture finance and screen credit issues, biologic marketing strategies, financial advisory services, fiduciary duty claims involving banks and trusts, government investigations, long-distance telephone services, toxic torts and RICO claims.

Mann has had a long term commitment to serving Los Angeles’ underprivileged children. She spearheaded major litigation that established fair housing rights for low income families. She aided a number of Hurricane Katrina refugees who were transferred to Los Angeles in obtaining housing, health and education services. She is also very active in the Los Angeles legal community, serving as the Chair-Elect of the Executive Committee of the Litigation Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. She received an undergraduate degree from Pomona College and a JD from the University of California – Los Angeles School of Law.

Andrea Foggy-Paxton, School Committee Member

The Broad Center

Andrea Foggy-Paxton supports career development of senior leaders in the Broad Center network. Foggy-Paxton previously was executive vice president at Reasoning Mind, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing first-rate math instruction for all students. She also has developed and managed innovative professional development, high-school transformation, college completion and personalized-learning grants for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Earlier in her career, she served in roles with Annie E. Casey Foundation, Tavis Smiley Foundation, L.A. Youth at Work, Rock the Vote, and Freedom Schools. Foggy-Paxton has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree in public administration from Baruch College in New York.