Where Discipline Meets Behavioral Health: Restorative Approaches to Supporting Students Without Exclusion
February 26 @ 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Exclusionary discipline practices — such as suspension and expulsion — can have lasting impacts on students’ mental and behavioral health, increasing stress, disconnection, and disengagement from school. This webinar explores how centering student behavioral health through a restorative lens can reshape school discipline practices and policies, shifting from removal to connection, and lead to improved academic and wellbeing outcomes.
School leaders, behavioral health and student support professionals, and community partners are invited to learn how restorative approaches, aligned with behavioral health supports, can help schools respond differently to student behavior — while also addressing the unintended harms of exclusionary discipline. A moderated panel discussion will lift up concrete, state-supported resources, real-world examples, and will emphasize practical, actionable insights for education and health-based practitioners.
This event is hosted by the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools, California Health and Human Services’ Children and Youth Behavioral Health, and Office of Youth and Community Restoration.