School-Based Mental Health Specialist
In participating schools, the School-Based Mental Health Specialist helps children, youth and their families by providing specialized services that improve student functioning in school and create strong cnnections between home and school. School-Based Mental Health Specialists provide a variety of services for children and their families to develop skills that will allow them to better function in all areas of their lives.
Prevention Services serve over 45,000 children and youth in St. Charles, Lincoln, Franklin and Warren Counties. Our prevention programming is implemented on a continuum, with curriculum for grades Kindergarten through eighth grade. Elementary prevention programs include: anger management, conflict resolution, personal safety, bullying and cyber bullying. Middle school prevention programs include: self-esteem, conflict resolution, dealing with loss, family addictions, child abuse prevention, criticism, cyber bullying and healthy relationships. These programs are designed to reach children and youth at critical periods in their lives, and teach them skill-building techniques, which can facilitate healthy decision making.
Pinocchio is a school-based program that works with children (kindergarten through third grade) who have emerging behavioral or emotional problems which hinder the child's progress in school.
