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Youth Mental Health

The Youth Mental Health Series, proudly sponsored by Wedgwood Christian Services, focuses on students’ mental health, the sources of their distress, and how schools and communities can help address their needs.

Students find a quiet place to chill out: the hygge room

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

Foundation funds math curriculum, mental health coordinator

Caledonia Alexis Stark
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...

‘We are here to help’

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
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'...

Helping students struggling with isolation-induced anxiety and other mental health issues

School 2.0 Charles Honey
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...

Supporting healthy relationships as ‘the root of all learning’

Caledonia Hannah Lentz
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...

On being an empathetic ear

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

Onsite clinicians expand mental health services at middle schools

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

Student Services Team created to focus on mental health

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

GRCC counselors reach out to help students with mental health needs

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese
Along with free, confidential one-on-one counseling, they offer a slate of general workshops and mind-body wellness events based on mindfulness, managing emotions, sleep and other topics...

Social worker reaches out to students, parents to meet mental health needs

Wyoming Erin Albanese
With one in five children experiencing a mental disorder nationally, extra support staff can help students and parents connect with the help they need...

Making it right to be real

Thornapple Kellogg Hannah Lentz
Thornapple Kellogg High School recently kicked off a series of assemblies building on the Making it Cool to be Kind program...

Lessons in how to handle grief take center stage at this elementary school

Cedar Springs Janice Holst
Staff at Cedar View Elementary find ways to help students understand and deal with grief...

Donation sparks program that helps students get counseling

Youth Mental Health Morgan Jarema
The program’s name, “Bridging the Gap,” comes from the decision to use the funds to help families pay for amounts not covered by insurance

Students Go for the Green in Social Learning

Caledonia Erin Albanese
It's easy being green. But blue, yellow and red? That's another matter. Special education students are learning to express how they feel and to identify...

Foundation Commits $90k to Teen Mental Health

Rockford Charles Honey
With problems of teen anxiety, depression and suicide on the rise, the Rockford Education Foundation decided it was time to step up its efforts...

Typical Teen Stuff or Serious Mental Health Issue?

Youth Mental Health Jaye Beeler
For a while now, high school English teacher Sheri Gilreath-Watts has been teaching from Judith Guest's novel "Ordinary People," about a suicidal boy home...
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