Dear Parents and Guardians:
Through our partnership with Scenic Bluffs Community Healthcare Center with funding provided by the Get Kids Ahead Grant, we are able to continue offering additional mental health support for students in conjunction to the services routinely available through our school counselors. This is not clinical therapy or treatment. The purpose of this partnership is to provide coping skills and tools to assist students with short-term concerns such as stress management and peer conflict while also serving as an informal screening opportunity for recognizing initial signs of other needs such as anxiety and depression. When needed, counseling conversations with licensed therapists help students thrive academically and work through the barriers that are impeding their education. The program also helps introduce students and their families to community services, provide referrals to higher levels of support, and assist in future professional development for school staff.
Students have access to licensed therapists at school at no cost to them or their insurance company using an open office hours format much like school nursing services. These visits are not intended to be appointments or replacements for clinical behavioral healthcare.
Following school privacy guidelines, health center counselors may collaborate with school counselors as requested, but because the students would not be receiving therapy, they would not be health center patients, and would not be documented in electronic health record systems.
Parents/guardians may opt out of this supplemental program by contacting the school office. Students would still have access to our school counselors whether or not they opt out of the program.
If you have any questions please contact Mr. Greg Stritchko at 608-654-5131, ext. 405
Thank you
Scenic Bluffs Supplemental Counseling Message
