SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL WELLNESS INITIATIVE
3415 S Sepulveda Blvd 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90034 www.sewi.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: To enhance the quality of life for youth and families by educating, motivating and providing prevention programs through social and emotional wellness services. We coordinate and supervise Masters of Social Work interns with youth serving agencies as well as staff trainings and curriculum to these agencies. Specific purpose :A) Interns render support to the agencies by providing short-term individual and group counseling, crisis intervention and case management services for youth in need of additional emotional support.B) To build the knowledge base of youth serving agencies employees by coordinating and facilitating trainings focused on promoting the social and emotional wellness of agency participants.C) To provide curriculum to clubs an a variety of topics ranging from anti-bullying, social & emotional development & youth empowerment.

To enhance the qualifty of life for youth and families by educationg, mortivating and providing prevention programs through social and emotional wellness services.

1) Direct Youth Service, Master of Social Work Intern ProgramOur Master of Social Work (MSW) Intern Program places interns with youth-serving partners and school districts across Los Angeles County. This last year we worked with the following patterns to place interns to work directly with youth. Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District; Lincoln Middle School, John Adams Middle School, Santa Monica High School, Olympic High School. In addition we placed interns with DaVinci Extension, part of DaVinci School and Boys & Girls Clubs of Los Angeles Harbor. Our interns are supervised by full-time SEWI staff with backgrounds in social work and mental health services and they utilize the Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) intervention model to introduce social and emotional wellness services to youth. SFT is a therapeutic model that places clients concerns at the center of practice by helping clients envision a desired future where past successes and strengths are used to address the current concerns and provide resolutions. The model is culturally sensitive since client concerns are the focus of service, which respects their view of the world. Emphasis on client strengths and resiliency helps to empower clients to make desired changes.Nine MSW interns worked directly with youth through one on one counseling sessions, groups and workshops. In total our interns saw 84 formal clients, 41 informal clients (Youth that drop in for crisis or support) 58 youth participated in group counseling and 159 attended workshops. 100% of youth who filled out the satisfaction survey were very satisfied with the support they received from our interns. Many of our partners dont have the resources to provide one on one support or even group wellness activities. The intern program fills the gap to create supportive services and to help our partners create emotionally safe spaces. Our youth describe services as making them feel respected and loved because someone listened to my issues and came up with plausible solutions to cope. She (the MSW intern) was extremely caring and I felt I could confide in her. When COVID-19 required us to all work from home and placement sites closed we were able to pivot our services to online tele counseling and youth were still able to receive consistent services. In addition, we reached out to all of the current clients and helped assist them in any case management needs.

2) Staff Training & DevelopmentThrough in person or live virtual trainings we trained 289 adults who work directly with youth. We have increased the number of trainings we have been able to provide as well as a wider range of topics. We trained 50 educators on Social & Emotional Wellness and Social Justice for the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District. Providing training through the zoom platform gave us the opportunity to do trainings that we might not have had the opportunity to facilitate due to travel. We provided training for a wider range of organizations including two different trainings for the California School Library Association on how to create connections in virtual spaces and compassionate leadership. 89 individuals participated in one of our three pre-recorded training through our Teachable platform. These trainings cover Intro to Social & Emotional Wellness, Group Facilitation, Creating Programs & Impact and Youth Stages of Development. We have seen a large interest in the utilization of this tool by youth organizations, mostly Boys & Girls Clubs across California. The recorded trainings allowed for many organizations to provide training opportunities for employees while working from home. We are proud of the growth of our training program and our ability to meet the needs of the communities serve.

3) Curriculum Development Social & Emotional Learning For Youth (SELFY) Program that we piloted last year is now available to implement in afterschool spaces and in schools. When COVID restriction moved our programming online we turned a few of the SELFY workshops into online workshops to share with the general public and to engage young people in conversations. We have started the process of creating SELFY high school edition which will have both virtual and in person program options

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