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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.

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...

Helping with Stress at the Holidays

Grandville Morgan Jarema
When Karen Hoekstra was in high school, there was no "be nice" committee, and talking about mental illness just didn't happen, she said. "Had there...

A Friend’s Message on Suicide: ‘This is For Real’

Cedar Springs School News Network
Before the opening credits to a film about suicide, freshman Noah McGee took the stage at Cedar Springs High School to share his painful,...

Poetry Helps Angry, Distant Student Emerge as School Leader

Kelloggsville Erin Albanese
54th Street Academy junior Brianna Darin spoke about her battle with depression and anxiety on National Public Radio’s program “State of Opportunity,” explaining whatit’s...

‘If It Saves One Person’s Life’

Cedar Springs Charles Honey
Evan Kobayashi was an excellent student, a talented baseball player and a considerate classmate. The high school student was “a humble, fun-loving, gentle soul,”...

Taking on a Tough Topic: Severe Stress in Students

Kent ISD School News Network
So many things in life can cause stress, including for teens and young people. School News Network reporter Charles Honey sees this first-hand. He...

A New Kind of First Aid – for Student Mental Health

All Districts Erin Albanese
If a child has green snot coming from his nose, he might be taken to a doctor, right? asked Karyll Russell, Sparta Middle School...

‘Everyone Struggles with Something’

Rockford Charles Honey
When it was bad, it was really bad, Jared Walejewski said. “I was so lonely,” the Rockford High School senior recalled of his depression as...
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