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Episode 110: “Mental Health Supports in Schools and Communities” with Teri B. Lawler, EdD, LPCMH

In this episode, Ricky and Teri discuss the importance of community because you can’t have whole children learning and succeeding in school if you don’t have healthy families and thriving communities.  

In 1964, Malcolm X said, “When ‘I’ is replaced with ‘we’ even illness becomes wellness.” In this episode — with that quotation in mind — Ricky and Teri Lawler, EdD, discuss the importance of community because you can’t have whole children learning and succeeding in school if you don’t have healthy families and thriving communities.  

Dr. Lawler is a school psychologist who leads the work in trauma-informed practices and SEL at the Delaware Department of Education. She is passionate about creating equitable educational opportunities for all children and youth regardless of zip code. She works to reduce the barriers to learning by increasing awareness of the impact of trauma and toxic stress and creating trauma-responsive assessment and intervention frameworks. Dr. Lawler is also committed to translating research to practice to ensure that the highest quality learnings inform daily school practices. She is a founding member, trainer, and curriculum architect at Delaware Compassionate Schools Learning Collaborative. 

Related Resources 

Connections Over Compliance: Rewiring Our Perceptions of Discipline - Lori Desautels, PhD 

Help for Billy: A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Challenging Children in the Classroom – Heather Forbes, LCSW 

Schools Cannot Do It Alone – Jamie Robert Vollmer 

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