Youth Mental Health

Local middle- and high-school students are invited to apply by June 4...

Paint Kenowa Green is about creating safe spaces and ending stigma...

There’s a long list of students waiting for a positive role model, and a list of adults waiting to be of support. The program is always looking for more volunteers...

On a freezing February morning at Pathways High School, two speakers from Michigan non-profit i understand spoke to students about the importance of mental health...

The site offers new ways for students to connect, on anything from academic questions to mental health issues...

A group is working to identify trauma and provide support early in order to increase student success...

A tool students can use with their phones is opening doors to careers -- many of them local -- and giving administrators a read on emotional wellness...

In response to the social and emotional impacts brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, Rockford’s Developing Healthy Kids Campaign wants students and families to know they are not alone...

A calming “hygge room” has become a popular part of Roguewood Elementary’s mental-health supports for students during the pandemic...

The Caledonia Education Foundation recently awarded the district a $75,000 grant to pay for a new math curriculum and to free up dollars to add a new position to serve students’ mental, social and emotional health needs...

The tri-colored posters along the walls of the Kent Career Tech Center offer a simple reminder to students who walk the facility’s halls: 'We are here to help'...

Now that they can’t meet with students behind a closed door in their office, school mental health workers are finding other ways to help...

Vickie Swanson has had many roles in her two years with Caledonia Schools, all aimed at the goal of addressing mental health across the district...

Ben Sorota read a School News Network article about a group at another school, which led him to start a group of his own...

Principals and nurses are reporting that students are talking about more anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts and stressful situations at home...

The team will focus on additional staffing, community education, professional development and initiatives to maintain positive images of the importance of mental health...