Help with Coping

This Site is meant to provide virtual help for the grown ups in our students' lives. Parents and school staff are taking on new challenges at work and at home. It is important, now more than ever, that adults have support and information to help them address different changes and difficulties they are facing.

Below, information and resources on mental health have been posted. Click the links to learn more.

Thank you for everything you do and keep pushing on!

Trauma and stress are issues that both children and adults face. Stress occurs when a person is met with the challenge of reaching a goal. Chronic stress, or stress every day, can be hard on the mind and body. It is important to recognize stress and manage it effectively and safely. While stress is a common experience for most people, trauma occurs when a person experiences an event that puts them or someone they love in danger. Parents, teachers, and students could all experience trauma. Trauma changes how people relate to the world. It can be helpful to better understand trauma in order to better serve students, children and ourselves. Click below to learn about trauma and stress and how it may impact the brain.

COVID-19 has changed everything. At times, it may feel like taking care of yourself is a luxury. It is important, even when children are home and stress is running high, for adults to take time for themselves and to manage their own stress. Click below to learn about COVID-19 resources, self-care and coping with stress.

A mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning. Mental illnesses are medical conditions that often result in a diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life.

1 in 5 Americans experience mental illness and 1 in 25 adults live with serious mental illness. Mental illness can affect persons of any age, race, religion or income. They are not the result of personal weakness, lack of character or poor upbringing. Stress and changing environments can be factors in experiencing mental illness. Serious mental illnesses includes major depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and others. Mental illnesses are treatable. Most people diagnosed with a serious mental illness can experience relief from their symptoms by actively participating in an individual treatment plan.

-National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI)-