School-based Mindfulness Interventions for At-risk Youth

Time: April 14, 2017, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Location: 123 Sims Hall

Dr. Joshua Felver hosts this "brown bag" presentation providing a background in the use of mindfulness-based interventions in public school settings.

Teenagers raised in high-poverty neighborhoods are less likely to succeed in school and are often exposed to maladaptive social behaviors such as community violence and crime. Emerging research suggests that school-based mindfulness practices improve academic and social-emotional outcomes, offering exciting directions for supporting the needs of at-risk youth. This "brown bag" presentation provides a background in the use of mindfulness-based interventions in public school settings and will illustrate these practices by detailing the results from a randomized-control trial of a mindfulness curricula being delivered to Syracuse City School District high school students.

Patrick Berry, Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition