Boosting Mental Health Skills
aws Studios.art is where I am a multi-passionate creative as an artist and mental health and social emotional learning/SEL educator.
Mental Health Educator
As a mental health educator, I help parents, teachers, mental health and other health professionals by providing award-winning classroom and home tested social emotional learning (SEL) resources that boost mental health skill building and wellness in kids, teens, and adults.
My experience includes training adults living and working with kids and teens using my classroom tested curriculum. These lessons and activities served both grade-school students and pre-service Health Educators I taught at the State University of Cortland, NY’s School of Graduate Studies.
In 2000, the NYS Dept. of Education selected my peer-reviewed communication skills learning experience, Final Episode for inclusion in their Academy for Teaching and Learning.
My other Mental Health Educator experience includes:
- Serving on the board of the National Parenting Education Network,
- Becoming a Fellow of the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York Health Leaders Program,
- Membership in the Fellows Action Network, and
- Training for the NYS Office and Children and Family Services Adolescent Services and Resources Network
Personal Life
I live with my husband Jim on Sodus Bay in New York. In the winter, we live on the Florida Gulf. We are the proud parents of two adult children, Laine, a Pediatric Otolaryngology Nurse Practitioner and, Peyton, an Inclusive Recreation and Community Mobility Consultant for Rochester Accessible Adventures. Peyton is also a power soccer athlete and has played for the US Power Soccer Association’s Team USA. We are fortunate grandparents to Fia and Ernie.
Welcome to aws Studios –
Alis Wintle Sefick