Instructors, students make video for PLAAY
SPECIAL TO THE
CHRONICLE
After modeling an
innovative program at
Elementary School
Academy during the 2014
15 school year, participants
and students in the program
recently produced a video,
with the help of the
Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services
Administration.
ESA introduced a new
tool to stem aggression
among its students last fall.
The program called
"PLAAY" is an acronym
Miley made adaptations to
Dr. Stevenson's model to
meet the needs of their stu
dents
"The students were
excited about having the
opportunity to participate
in a video that will be
viewed by the president,"
Davis said. "They did a
great job, and hopefully
this model will be used
throughout the country. It
was an honor for us to be
chosen to do it."
"PLAAY was intro
duced to us by Dr. Shawn
Ricks, of Winston-Salem
State, who is chair of
emotional strengths and
challenges, personality and
style.
"Many of our students
aren't properly prepared to
deal with anger issues,"
Miley said. "We make a
sincere effort to give them
the coping skills to deal
with these issues."
Staff members also use
videos, role-playing and
music to teach.
Students are encour
aged to identify their feel
ings and calculate how
stressful they are (on a
scale from 1 to 10); locate
where one's body feels the
I
stress;communicate
through self-talk to a trust
ed friend or authority fig
ure; breathe and exhale
slowly when stressed to
relieve the stress; have an
authority figure help them
continue to play, work, or
learn with others.
PLAAY also helps
reduce racial and gender
stress related to racial and
gender conflicts while
strengthening individual
and family stress manage
ment and racial coping
assertiveness. It also
designed to improve youth
academic achievement and
positive parent involve
ment in school.
Parental involvement is
also vital to the program's
success. The program uses
the physical activity of bas
ketball and culturally
responsive group therapy
to enhance youths' and
their parents' capacities to
challenge racial and gender
stereotypes, develop inter
personal and school
achievement skills, and
build stronger bonds
between parents and their
children.
Participants in PLAAY
are expected to maintain
regular attendance, engage
in honest dialect, extend
mutual respect and consid
eration, complete assign
ments on time and, most
importantly, have fun.
"This program is totally
outside regular school
hours and we expect the
students to have fun,"
Davis said. "Along the
way, we hope to give them
strategies for managing
stress during intense inter
personal situations and
become more aware of the
anger triggers that are like
ly to lead to conflict ."
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Nasir Graham, Kobe Thompson, Jaylon McLean,
Anthony Snyder and T'Andre Williams, with Sam
Davis.
Submitted photos
Jahaun King, Steven Evans, Samantha Davis, Ben
Nanez and Omari Smith with Elliot Miley.
that stands for Preventing
Long-Term Anger and
Aggression in Youth. It
was originated by Dr.
Howard Stevenson, a pro
fessor at the University of
Pennsylvania, who through
his research found that it
helps "youths manage their
anger at school and home
to complete their schooling
assignments by using cul
tural strengths".
Editing of the video
should be complete in the
next few weeks. Copies of
it will be sent to executives
with the Substance Abuse
and Mental Health
Services Administration
and is expected to reach the
desk of President Barack
Obama.
Sam Davis and Elliot
Human Service Studies
and a professor in the
department of
Rehabilitation and Human
Services," Davis said.
"When she introduced it to
Mr. Miley and myself, we
saw the potential of it in
helping our students work
through their problems. We
were already using many of
its concepts already, so it
was relatively easy to
incorporate it into what we
were already doing."
PLAAY helps the stu
dents learn to use their
communication skills to
address their anger. A key
part of PLAAY is helping
youths know when they get
angry while playing bas
ketball, because sports is a
great place to see youths'
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2 Chainz coming to
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