Personal, Social, Emotional Needs

If someone you know is participating in self-harming behaviors or mentions they are having suicidal thoughts, YOU CAN HELP. Remain calm. Listen carefully to what your friend is saying. Let your friend know that you care about him/her. Take what they are saying seriously. Seek the help of an adult IMMEDIATELY. This can be your parent, teacher, coach, or school counselor. 

"What if it's me?"

Follow the same steps: Tell someone. Ask for help. 

When a parent learns that their child is harming or thinking of harming themselves, it can be a very emotional and confusing time. It is important that parents remain calm and take their child's actions seriously. Work with trusted professionals and family members to develop a safety plan while supporting your child. 

Resources

• If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call 911.

• The National Suicide Prevention Helpline is available 24/7, just go to 1-800-273-TALK. 

• Download the FREE app, "A Friend Asks".

• The Jason Foundation

• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

• 100+ Things to Do Besides Self-Harm

• Adolescent Self-Injury Foundation

• Nobody Told Me! | Podcast on Spotify: Mark Henick: Discusses his personal experience with mental health struggles and suicidal ideation as a teenager and emphasizes that resilience is the ability to deal with struggle, not to avoid it entirely.

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL SUPPORT

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is an integral part of education and human development. SEL is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.

SEL advances educational equity and excellence through authentic school-family-community partnerships to establish learning environments and experiences that feature trusting and collaborative relationships, rigorous and meaningful curriculum and instruction, and ongoing evaluation. SEL can help address various forms of inequity and empower young people and adults to co-create thriving schools and contribute to safe, healthy, and just communities.

(https://casel.org/what-is-sel/)

What are we doing at McClintock for School-wide SEL?

• The Panorama Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Questionnaire measures student mindsets, behaviors, and attitudes that might be related to success in school and beyond the classroom. 

• Collaborative Classroom is a non-profit that works to help students grow as readers, writers, and thinkers while they develop the social and emotional skills necessary to thrive.

  • Caring School Community is a comprehensive, research-based social and emotional learning (SEL) program offered by Collaborative Classroom that builds school-wide community, develops students’ social skills and SEL competencies, and enables a transformative stance on discipline.

What can parents do to support SEL at home?

• SEL 101 for Parents: Implementing the competencies in the home 

Community Crisis Supports

Greater Charlotte Hope Line --- 980-771-HOPE (4673)

• A 24/7 phone line for Mecklenburg County residents seeking help for:

  • • parenting support

    • relationship violence

• Services are free of charge and confidential

Mecklenburg County Mobile Crisis ---Hotline: 704-566-3410 (Select option 1)

• Services that meet you where the mental health crisis is occurring

• Operates 24 hours a day/365 days a year

• Services are free of charge

• Calls are screened by mental health counselors

• Linkages are made to treatment and support systems

• Mental health professionals are available for face-to-face evaluations for individuals in crisis

• Staff are specifically trained for managing stress following a critical incident

Click for Additional Community Crisis Resources

Just for Parents/Guardians

40 Developmental Assets for Adolescents

An important tool school counselors use when working with students is analyzing how many internal and external developmental assets students possess.  School counselors help connect adolescents with additional resources to help them deal with the pressures that come with adolescence. Click here to discover what developmental assets your child has as well as to learn how to create even more assets for your child!

School-Based Mental Health Program

The SBMH program makes mental health therapy and other services available for any student experiencing short or long-term behavioral, emotional, and adjustment difficulties. McClintock Middle School partners with Turning Point Family Services in order to offer students on-going school-based mental health therapy.These services are delivered during the school day, and are available to all students, regardless of the family's ability to pay. 

If you would like your student to receive SBMH therapy, please contact your child's school counselor to complete the referral process. 

KinderMourn

Losing a loved one can be a difficult experience for both students and their parents. McClintock MS has partnered with Kindermourn to provide students and their families with resources to help them during the grieving process. 

Cyber Education

Our students are heavily influenced by technology. Often, the negative impact of social media finds its way into the classroom and school hallways. Students may be less willing to work with one another or may become preoccupied with reflecting on their online activity with peers. 

With frequent advances in technology, parents are often left wondering how to keep their child safe from cyber-bullies or online predators.  As a school, we can not discipline students for things that don't happen on campus, but we can provide you with the tools that you need in order to work with your child at home. 

Cyberbullying Research Center is a great resource for students, parents, and educators to learn more about how to identify and prevent cyberbullying. 

Common Sense Media offers some advice about how to keep up with the latest social apps and sites your child is using. 

Screen is an app that gives parents control over students' technology use by allowing them to remotely turn off devices. 

            LGBTQ Parent Resources

PFLAG Charlotte is a parent resource for LGBTQ students.  No matter where you are in your journey, PFlag has options to meet your needs.  Their mission is to support families, allies and people who are LGBTQ, to educate ourselves and others about challenges facing LGBTQ individuals, and to advocate in our communities to build a more equitable future for all.    PFLAG Charlotte offers support groups and other resources.

The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25. 

Community Resourcses

Financial

• Crisis Assistance- www.crisisassistance.org; 704-371-3001

  • Furniture Bank- Referral Required

• EL Parent & Community Outreach-https://sites.google.com/cms.k12.nc.us/el-parent-community-outreach/community-resources/basic-needs; 980-343-0057

Food

• Loaves and Fishes- www.loavesandfishes.org; 704-523-4333

• Self-Referral Pop-Up Food Shares/Auto Remisión Distribución de Comida-https://loavesandfishes.org/food-share/ ; 704-523-4333

• Urban Ministry Center- www.urbanministrycenter.org; 704-347-0278

• EL Parent & Community Outreach-https://sites.google.com/cms.k12.nc.us/el-parent-community-outreach/free-food-options/opciones-de-comida-gratuita; 980-343-3001

Health

• CMS School Health- www.cms.k12.nc.us/cmsdepartments/csh/Pages/default.aspx; 980-343-6269

• Teen Health Connection-www.teenhealthconnection.org; 704-381-TEEN (8336)

• EL Parent & Community Outreach-https://sites.google.com/cms.k12.nc.us/el-parent-community-outreach/community-resources/health; 980-343-0057

Homelessness/Housing

• NC 211-https://www.nc211.org/find-help 

• A Child's Place- www.achildsplace.org; 704-343-3790

• Charlotte Emergency Housing- www.charlottefamilyhousing.org; 704-335-5488

• Center of Hope for Women and Children- www.salvationarmycarolinas.org/charlotte/get-help/salvation-army-center-of-hope-shelter-for-women-and-children; 704-716-ARMY (2769)

• Hope Haven- www.hopehaveninc.org; 704-372-8809

• Men's Shelter of Charlotte- www.mensshelterofcharlotte.org; 704-347-0278 (Dial extension 0)

• Urban Ministry Center- www.urbanministrycenter.org; 704-347-0278

• Youth Crisis Shelter- www.therelatives.org/YouthCrisisCenter; 704-377-0602

Mentorship

• The Males' Place- charmeck.org/mecklenburg/county/HealthDepartment/CommunityHealthServices/MalesPlace/Pages/Default.aspx; 980-314-9485