"Parent/Caregiver Guide to Helping Families Cope With the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)" from The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, https://www.nctsn.org/resources/parent-caregiver-guide-to-helping-families-cope-with-the-coronavirus-disease-2019
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¿Estás en una crisis?
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In-School Programs
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"Everyone here is really different and we were all good to each other, we all contributed."
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-Student Program Participant
Each year approximately 800 students participate in state of the art, evidenced-based prevention and social/emotional learning programs in our elementary and middle schools. With our trained staff of mental health professionals, programs are led with hands-on activities, designed to increase skill sets in key areas. The goal of all programming is to increase the awareness and practice of healthy coping skills, and decrease potential risk factors that may contribute to the development of unhealthy risk taking behaviors, mental health challenges and early substance use.
NEW this year is a program at Mamaroneck High School aimed at equipping students with the skills they need to help support their friends through mental health challenges, and will reach an additional 400 students in our district.
​5th Grade Mindfulness Workshops
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The overall goal of our program is to create a shared language and set of tools to help students navigate situations that challenge their emotion regulation, impulse control and communication skills. Lessons focus on building the practice of mindfulness and encourage students to be reflective and deepen their own emotional awareness. The skills we teach are designed to be used throughout the year as a way to help kids reset, both in the moment and more broadly. Teachers and students can reuse our activities and skills to build connection, improve communication and foster empathy. These workshops are delivered to all 4 MUFSD elementary schools in the fall and winter, and all students receive a booster lesson as part of their 6th grade orientation at Hommocks Middle School in late spring.
7th Grade Life Skills at Hommocks Middle School
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This program is delivered over the course of 7 weeks as students participate in their Unified Arts health class. While reinforcing skills and messaging learned in our 5th grade program and as socialization increases, students are again exposed to the practice of mindfulness, coping mechanisms for increasing stress levels, and self-regulation to modulate overwhelming emotions. These skills are taught with an understanding of how to apply them to critical aspects of their 7th grade lives such as academics, relationships and social media.
10th Grade Students Supporting Students at Mamaroneck High School
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In the Spring of 2024, concerned students at MHS identified a growing need to help students support students in the quest for improving mental health among teenagers in our district. Mental health challenges are on the rise, and there is opportunity to both equip students with better tools to support their peers, and help them identify clear resources they can access when situations begin to feel overwhelming. NEW this year, this project is a collaboration between these concerned students at MHS, and the community counseling center. Over the course of 2 lessons embedded in the 10th grade health curriculum, students will learn important communication skills to help them feel confident supporting and navigating friends and peers through mental health challenges.
Accessing Additional Resources:
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As students progress through these various programs, in addition to developing critical skills they become increasingly familiar with the LMCCC, its services and staff members. Many students will find their needs met through school-based programming. Some students may require additional services concurrently, or while in high school. The unique combination of familiarity with staff, and the continuity of our skills-based programming from 6th grade Life Skills foundations to our in-house High School DBT treatment services, make our center a unique, accessible and familiar resource for youth in our community who are in need of support.​​​​ Visit our COUNSELING page for more info.