We are so excited to tell you about services we can offer with students in your system's schools!
Why is School-Based Mental Health Counseling Important?
Students today are facing threats and trauma from all sides. For many students, school is their “safe space” – the place where they can count on rules being consistent, the same adults being present, and their physical needs being met.
We are finding more and more research that students’ emotional and mental health plays a significant role in their ability to learn in the classroom. On a regular basis, students face challenges navigating interpersonal relationships with peers and authority figures, social situations, their own physical and emotional developmental changes, and day-to-day stressors. Some students face much more severe challenges – trauma, abuse, thoughts of suicide, hallucinations, severe depression or anxiety, bullying, sexual assault. When students are emotionally dealing with these significant challenges, their ability to attend to academic information is decreased. In fact, one of the first indicators of a child’s overall mental health is the consistency of their academic performance – when children are stressed, their grades often fall, even for high-performing students.
Providing School-Based Mental Health Counseling services allows students who are struggling with these emotional and cognitive issues to work with a clinically trained mental health counselor on a regular basis. The counselor can address errors in student thinking, help the student develop more health coping skills, assess any risk of self-harm or suicide, and connect with parents, teachers, and administration to coordinate care as needed.
Students today are facing threats and trauma from all sides. For many students, school is their “safe space” – the place where they can count on rules being consistent, the same adults being present, and their physical needs being met.
We are finding more and more research that students’ emotional and mental health plays a significant role in their ability to learn in the classroom. On a regular basis, students face challenges navigating interpersonal relationships with peers and authority figures, social situations, their own physical and emotional developmental changes, and day-to-day stressors. Some students face much more severe challenges – trauma, abuse, thoughts of suicide, hallucinations, severe depression or anxiety, bullying, sexual assault. When students are emotionally dealing with these significant challenges, their ability to attend to academic information is decreased. In fact, one of the first indicators of a child’s overall mental health is the consistency of their academic performance – when children are stressed, their grades often fall, even for high-performing students.
Providing School-Based Mental Health Counseling services allows students who are struggling with these emotional and cognitive issues to work with a clinically trained mental health counselor on a regular basis. The counselor can address errors in student thinking, help the student develop more health coping skills, assess any risk of self-harm or suicide, and connect with parents, teachers, and administration to coordinate care as needed.
The Brave Tomorrow Plan
Dedicated, Experienced Providers
Our model establishes a relationship between the school and one or two dedicated counselors from our office, who can work closely with administrative and support staff to provide services that are most beneficial for each individual school setting. Our providers are trained in play therapy techniques, and have experience working in schools and with student populations.
Access for All Students
Working with Brave Tomorrow through a contract agreement allows us to see any student in the school. There are no requirements for insurance, and no hoops to jump through. All that is required is a short consent form signed by a parent or guardian. Most referrals come directly from school counselors and administration.
Our model establishes a relationship between the school and one or two dedicated counselors from our office, who can work closely with administrative and support staff to provide services that are most beneficial for each individual school setting. Our providers are trained in play therapy techniques, and have experience working in schools and with student populations.
Access for All Students
Working with Brave Tomorrow through a contract agreement allows us to see any student in the school. There are no requirements for insurance, and no hoops to jump through. All that is required is a short consent form signed by a parent or guardian. Most referrals come directly from school counselors and administration.
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Our Vision
Our goal as counselors is to work toward providing mental health counseling services in the parts of our community where individuals, children, and families are unable to access them in traditional ways. We are honored to have the opportunity to partner with our Bulloch County faculty and staff, who are already intimately connected with the children and families in our community, to continue to grow children into the best versions of themselves possible. |
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