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A lack of counselors at a school in Colorado inspired the administration to collaborate with students on a peer counseling program to address students’ mental health needs.
Many schools — especially those which a large number of students facing stress and trauma — can benefit from increased mental health resources on campus.
It’s getting hard for new teachers in Colorado to find support systems, since the percentage of Colorado’s teachers in their first or second year in the classroom is among the highest in the nation.
The University of Colorado Denver this semester enrolled the largest freshman class in the institution’s 45-year history, growing by 15.9 percent from last year, according to a university news release.
Mental Health Colorado hopes to help the state edge closer to that goal through its School Mental Health Toolkit, a free online resource released in June meant for schools, districts, teachers and parents across the state.
Santos designed this class after she realized, as the head of a residential college at Yale, that many students were stressed out and unhappy, grinding through long days that seemed to her far more crushing and joyless than her own college years.
The new system requires that the school hold a placement meeting when the student is expelled. The school is also supposed to create individualized learning programs for each student.
The correlation between academic achievement and good attendance is not new information to state education officials, but a recent study by national group Attendance Works and the Everyone Graduates Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education shows a relationship between poor attendance and students from families demonstrating financial need.