Resources for Schools

Interested in learning more about how TYSA can provide support at your school?

Teachers and other school professionals play an important role in helping kids avoid the dangers of alcohol and other drugs. TYSA offers a professional development workshop which demonstrates the positive power of teachers and specific ways in which schools can protect children from substance use. This workshop will build the capacity of personnel who work with and interact with youth on a daily basis to feel confident in helping prevent substance use in the school. Schedule a TYSA professional development workshop to equip personnel to:

Identify signs and symptoms of substance use
Provide tools to maintain healthy classrooms and schools
Introduce school protocol to address intoxication and suspected substance use

There are a variety of evidence-based services organizations can bring to schools that span the continuum of care for students. Many of these services can be offered throughout the school day or after school with or without assistance from DOE personnel. See below for TYSA’s School Menu of trainings and services created specifically for schools. This resource is a guide for school staff to navigate substance use services and support for your school and community.

TYSA School Menu of Services Guide 2021 - FINAL Download

Have a school-based health center? Community-Based Organizations and providers can supplement and support the work you are already doing at your school. Contact us for more information.

TYSA provides student workshops that educate young people on the current drug landscape and ways they can get involved in their school and community. To request a workshop, contact us.

About TYSA

The TYSA coalition is a data-driven collaboration aimed at leveraging the power of collective impact to improve behavioral health outcomes for Staten Island’s youth. Through the lens of equity and inclusion, this project seeks to drive major improvements in youth substance use and mental health prevention, treatment, and recovery on Staten Island. TYSA seeks to:

Engage diverse communities and constituencies, inclusive of lived experience, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability status and all of the other rich diversity on Staten Island
Achieve major gains, not minor improvements
Use clear metrics, at the youth, organization, and system-levels
Support the success of partner implementers
Align and improve efforts to achieve greater collective impact
Avoid reinventing the wheel or duplicating existing existing programs
Identify and address disparities
Identify root causes such as adverse childhood experiences, and support community level change
Create a culture of equity in systems and partnerships

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Mission & Vision

SIPCW seeks to create a healthier Staten Island by bringing together partner organizations and community members to address pressing wellness needs and give all Staten Islanders a chance to live their best lives. The focus of our efforts is in communities and populations with the greatest health inequities such as BIPOC and LGBTQ+ identifying.

Our vision is that our entire community has a shared understanding of the systemic conditions such as racism, classism, and heterosexism, contributing to wellness and the resources to ensure that all individuals and families have the knowledge and access to what they need to live their healthiest lives.

Recognizing the Indigenous History of SI

The Staten Island Partnership for Community Wellness is located on Munsee Lenape land. Native communities called present-day Staten Island Aquehonga Manacknong. The Lenape sold the land we now call Staten Island to European colonizers under duress in 1670. To learn more about this transaction, see Andrew Lipman’s article, “A Hard Bargain.” Today, roughly 300 Ramapough Lunaape tribal members live on Staten Island.

To learn more about land acknowledgement and the Indigenous lands where you reside, view this map of Native lands or text your zip code to 1-855-917-5263