Counselors

Role:

• help students with academic goals
  
• plan for their future
  
• Support struggling students

Ashley French (A - Cam)

Inna Peart (Can - E)

Nicole Wolff (F - Hs)

Paula Riesenbeck (Hu - Mas)

Clarissa Fernandez (Mat - Pe)

Jaclyn Smith (Ph - Stee)

Mary Campo (Stef - Z)

Located: office

Social Worker

Role:

• Support students emotionally & socially
  
• Support adjustments to school or personal situations
• Connect students, school, comunity, and home

Aura Contreras

Kimberly Jensen

Located: wellness center RM 323

School Psychologist

Role:

• Understand behavioral syptoms
  
• student academic concerns
• work one-on-one with students

Bryan Phung

Kathleen Maze

Located: Office, next to counselors

Local Control & Accountability Plan (LCAP) Counselors

Role:

• Academically support students
  
• Support students with personal circumstances
• Work with homeless, foster, and students having struggles at home

Michael Perales (A - L)

Linda Zimel (M - Z)

Located: office, next to attendance

HOTLINES

full list

Mental health crisis line: 988

Emergencies: 911

NAMI Helpline: 1-800-950-NAMI

Teen & young adult NAMI HelpLine: 800-950-6264 OR Text “Friend” to 62640

National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

Crisis Text Line:Text REASON to 741741

Self-Harm Hotline: 1-800-DONT CUT (1-800-366-8288)

Family Violence Helpline: 1-800-996-6228

LGBTQ Hotline: 1-888-843-4564

WEBSITES

NAMI

CDC

Psychology today

Mental health America

American Academy of Child and

Adolescent Psychiatry

Anxieties/overwhelmed/stressed/panic attacks/anxiety attacks

• Breathing:
  
• Slow & deep breathing, while gently rolling neck
  
• 4-7-8: nose inhale 4 seconds, hold 7 seconds, mouth exhale 8 seconds
  

• Meditation
  

5 grateful: what 5 things are you grateful for in this moment

• Repeat positive affirmations to yourself
  

• Go on a short walk in nature or around your home
  

• Drink water
  

5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique:

• 5 objects, 4 sounds, 3 objects your touching, 2 smells, 1 thing you taste
  

• Essential oils: lavender, chamomile, jasmine, lemon
  

Depression Coping Methods

• Go on a walk or go into nature/outdoors
  

Feel yourself in the moment, do not think of outside

• factors
  

• Asses different factors that are making you feel these emotions
  

• Listen to music
  

• Do something you enjoy: painting, journaling, listening to music, reading, watch a happy movie
  

• Meditation & journaling
  

• Understand your emotions are valid
  

What is Mental Health

A state of mental well-being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn well and work well, and contribute to their community World Health Organization (WHO)

Anxiety

• Anxiety is the leading mental health challege among adolescents
  
• Statista 2023: 58% youth felt anxiety on a daily basis
  

Other CHS Support

• Wellness Center (RM 323): open before school, during break & lunch, get a counselor referral to go during class
  
• Host therapy groups (ex: anxiety, grief, healthy relationship, life skills, and more)
  
• Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) club
• Heather Anderson - academic support
• Ashley Selway - behavior support

Depression:

• 36.7% had persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness
  
• 42% youth felt depressed mood on a daily basis
  
• 53% lacked motivation in a daily basis
  
• 45% felt lonely on a daily basis
  

Stress

• 10% say stress causes them to get lower grades than they think they can get
  
• 59% say balancing all their activities causes stress
  
• 30% say they feel sad or depressed because of stress
  
• Statista 2023: 54% youth felt stressed on a daily basis