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Lack of communication to families. Engage the entire family and they will bring you into their community.

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Take the wall down for families. Mentor bridges the relationship between parents/families and districts/educators. More communication, and circular.

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Need to provide communication in real time.

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Mentor bridges the wall of family and educators.

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For opportunity youth, who is family? Sometimes they could be boyfriends.

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Build into the word family so it becomes stakeholders. Who matters to this young person?

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students you'd see alot more involvment in school and would see alot more success from the student. they will feel more understanded and comfortable

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Need to know the who is a part of the family, or who is a person that the student and family trust and could help. Stakeholders are part of the community of that child.

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If the school doesn't have a stigma over it, the community will feel comfortable with it. Liaisons and others banding together to promote the school to make these entities much stronger.

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We know our students, we know their situations, and we can support them with what they need. Foster this within the school.

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If the students are known, there would be more buy in from them. More accountability for themselves and for their peers. Watching over each other. Creates a community.

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Need policies that ensure people in the schools know their students and support them.

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Family structure is different today. Need to recognize this and build on the family structure as it is today.

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Parents need support to be able to support their children.

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Students need to see and know their teachers and school staff as regular people, a part of their communities.

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Within mentor training -- we are not responsible the harvest, we are responsible for planting seeds, watering, taking care of soil.

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Trauma informed care and how do you build raport with youth. It can be trained and learned.

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Need to understand where a child is coming from and what their reality is. Where are the youth coming from? Understand this before you attempt to build relationships. Validate how youth sees the world. Youth perspective first.

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Use complement. Words of encouragement. You can do it.

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Accountability and complementing