Montana Educators: Join Amy McDonald’s Sectional at MSCA!

Connection Matters: Amplify the Strengths in Your Community Through Connection!

When students and adults work, build, and grow together, so do communities as a whole. This is especially evident inside the school building. The more youth and adults have connections and work to deepen those connections through the lens of a strength-based framework, the healthier a community becomes. As youth and adults build webs of support within their communities, the less likely youth are to slip through the cracks.

Participants will learn about the Full-Color Web of Support framework that combines the greatest research in youth development into one framework that can be measured. Programs are often deficit-based and focus on improving what is wrong. However, data indicate that by implementing a strengths-based approach - i.e., focusing on what the school, class, and students are doing right - the negatives diminish. The framework makes this possible and measurable.

We will be available via chat to answer questions during the sectional.