Welcome to the 2021-2022 School Year!
"Clague middle school thanks you for your service during the 2021-2022 school year as a Peer-to-Peer student leader in partnership with the University of Michigan Eisenberg Family Depression Center.
Clague appreciates your commitment and dedication to promotion mental health awareness. The messages of hope and guidance you provided to your peers, through another extraordinary and challenging year, has had a positive and lasting impact within our school community."
In the past two years, our counseling team applied for and has been awarded over $10,000 in grant funds. We have used a large portion of the funds to purchase and create a new mental health library at the school.
We are normalizing the support and discussion of mental health for students and staff. We are increasing education, awareness, and empathy for others. When students can read about their personal experiences reflected in the stories and lives of others, it can reduce the isolation they feel and know they are not alone.
Grant funds awarded by: The Washtenaw County Mental Health Public Safety Preservation Millage and The University of Michigan Eisenberg Family Depression Center Peer-to-Peer Partnership.
Clague Peer-to-Peer Student Leadership Teams will present Mental Health Awareness Advisory Lessons.
If you have any questions and need help, please click on the Counseling Google Help Form.
Teachers are engaging all Clague students in Bullying Awareness and Prevention activities during Cougar Advisory time this month (and ongoing throughout the year).
The Clague Counseling Department participates in ongoing collaboration with Teacher Leader, Julie Donnelly, who develops the school-wide SEL lessons. Counselors also provided her with Bullying Prevention resources.
Counelors support students when needing assistance with difficult peer interactions.
"See Something, Say Something" is an important message. We encourage students to act as UPSTANDERS and to speak up as a BYSTANDER.
Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems.
In order to be considered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and include:
An Imbalance of Power: Kids who bully use their power—such as physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity—to control or harm others. Power imbalances can change over time and in different situations, even if they involve the same people.
Repetition: Bullying behaviors happen more than once or have the potential to happen more than once.
Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.