Mental Health
Assisting educators as they support their students' mental health needs.
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Professional Development
Mental Health Series
7 virtual half-day workshops aimed at equipping school mental health personnel with skills to support students' well-being, alongside membership access to the annual Mental Health Conference.
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Workshop
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Gain essential skills for supporting students through mental health challenges and crises.
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Workshop
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Gain essential skills for supporting students through mental health challenges and crises.
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Workshop
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Gain essential skills for supporting students through mental health challenges and crises.
View Workshop Details: Youth Mental Health First Aid -
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Workshop
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Gain essential skills for supporting students through mental health challenges and crises.
View Workshop Details: Youth Mental Health First Aid -
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Workshop
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Gain essential skills for supporting students through mental health challenges and crises.
View Workshop Details: Youth Mental Health First Aid -
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Workshop
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Gain essential skills for supporting students through mental health challenges and crises.
View Workshop Details: Youth Mental Health First Aid -
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Workshop
BHPP Lunch & Learn Series 2026-2027: Mental Health & Suicide Prevention
Gain essential skills and strategies for supporting students’ mental health and well-being.
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Workshop
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Gain essential skills for supporting students through mental health challenges and crises.
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Workshop
Lunch & Learn: Change Talk - Motivational Interviewing Basics for Substance Use
Explore Motivational Interviewing (MI), an evidence-based approach that helps professionals engage teens with substance use concerns through collaboration, empathy, and meaningful conversations that support positive change.
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Workshop
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Gain essential skills for supporting students through mental health challenges and crises.
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Workshop
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Gain essential skills for supporting students through mental health challenges and crises.
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Workshop
Lunch & Learn: Communicate Boundaries, Build Healthy Relationships
Learn practical strategies for fostering healthy relationships, setting boundaries, and improving communication skills to help students navigate social interactions both online and in person.
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Workshop
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Gain essential skills for supporting students through mental health challenges and crises.
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Workshop
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Gain essential skills for supporting students through mental health challenges and crises.
View Workshop Details: Youth Mental Health First Aid -
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Workshop
Lunch & Learn: Working with School Avoidance, Chronic Absenteeism, and Anxiety
Gain practical strategies for supporting students experiencing anxiety, panic attacks, and school avoidance. Explore effective interventions, family collaboration, and tools for creating a supportive learning environment that promotes student success.
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Workshop
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Gain essential skills for supporting students through mental health challenges and crises.
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Lunch & Learn: Moving Through Grief in Community
Gain tools to understand and address grief in children with IDD, including ADHD and other forms of neurodivergence, with empathy and effectiveness.
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Workshop
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Gain essential skills for supporting students through mental health challenges and crises.
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Event
Lunch & Learn: The Double-Edged Sword of ED - Supporting our SPED Students
Explore the complexities of the Emotional Disturbance classification in Special Education, including access to services, stigma, student identity, and equitable practices that support student-centered decision-making.
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Event
Lunch & Learn: Trauma, the Breath, and the Body
Discover the science of mindfulness through breath, movement, and nervous system regulation. Explore innovative, trauma-informed practices that promote well-being, resilience, and deeper connections with students.
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Lunch & Learn: Book Club! - The Anxious Generation
Join a collaborative discussion of The Anxious Generation and explore the factors contributing to today’s youth mental health challenges, along with practical strategies for supporting student well-being and
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Article
Knoster’s Model for Managing Complex Change: Motivation
Welcome back to our blog series on navigating complex change. For this blog, we’re going to dive into one of the most nuanced parts of Knoster’s Model for Managing Complex Change: Motivation. To start, I’d like to invite you to consider a time, personal or professional, when you felt highly motivated. What were the conditions […]
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Article
How Creativity Impacts Mental Health and School Communities
Creativity is more than enrichment. It is evidence-based prevention. Peer-reviewed meta-analyses consistently show that engaging in creative activity is associated with measurable improvements in mental health outcomes, including reductions in anxiety and depression and increases in overall well-being. If we want thriving campuses, creativity cannot remain extracurricular. It must become structural. In this article, we […]
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Program Support
Writing for Wellness
Support student and staff well-being through guided writing experiences that build resilience, emotional awareness, and meaningful connection.
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Article
Knoster’s Model for Managing Complex Change: Skill Building
Let’s move into our third topic in The Constant blog series about leading change: Skills. Skill building is one of the most important and often overlooked components of Knoster’s Model. Time is such a precious commodity for educators, and the workload can be overwhelming. What can we do to support our educators by building skills […]
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Knoster’s Model for Managing Complex Change: Creating a Vision
In our first blog, “Knoster’s Model for Managing Complex Change: An Introduction,” we unpacked the critical elements of effectively leading change. In this second blog of the series, we’ll explore the first element, vision, and how you can lead change with clarity and purpose. Clear Vision for the Future When an organization is experiencing change, […]
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Workshop
Lunch & Learn: Interventions for Anxiety and School Avoidance
Gain practical tools and strategies to recognize, understand, and effectively support students facing acute anxiety and related challenges like panic attacks and school avoidance.
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Article
Knoster’s Model for Managing Complex Change: An Introduction
If you’re a leader in education, you know that the one constant is change. Knoster’s Model for Managing Complex Change provides a framework for understanding why change efforts sometimes fail and how to set them up for success. We’re bombarded with new initiatives, materials, and strategies, and this often occurs with little or no support […]
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Article
The Power of Expressive Arts Techniques in Counseling
Expressive arts therapy techniques are a unique and innovative approach to mental health and wellness that utilizes various forms of artistic expression to explore emotions and experiences. Types of therapy techniques include art, play, music, dance/movement, drama, poetry, and more! This approach is based on the idea that the creative process can help individuals access […]
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Article
Ten Tips to Support Mental Health at Your School Today
I remember being a young child watching Mr. Roger’s neighborhood on our family TV. We lived in a rural part of Texas and television reception was more of a process than an event. It might take over a half an hour to adjust the “rabbit ear” antenna on the small television, but all that effort […]
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Article
6 Things to Know About Generation Z
Each generation has their own defining characteristics, whether it’s the self-sufficiency of Baby Boomers or the desire for meaningful work that Millennials crave. Generation Z is no exception. Those who were born between 1997- 2012 are generally considered to be part of this generation, and they have their own preferences and needs that are unique. […]
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Video
Being Mindful Playlist
In our Being Mindful video series, we explore different aspects of mindfulness and mental health, including how to practice gratitude and strategies that help relieve anxiety.
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Article
How to Encourage Empathy on Your Campus
Empathy is a word that we hear a lot these days, especially in counseling circles. However, even with the rise in popularity and the buzzword that it’s become, there is still a lot of confusion around what exactly it is and how we can best practice and build this important skill. Let’s dive into what […]
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Practice Self Care with these 6 Websites
Self care is a crucial part of everyone’s mental health. It involves deliberate activities we practice in order to boost our mental, emotional, and physical health. While it might seem simple to practice self care, it can be something many people overlook. However self care is important for limiting feelings of anxiety and boosting our […]
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10 Mindfulness Activities for Kids and Students
Often times our schools don’t have mindfulness activities for kids in mind when they’re creating their curriculum. However academic achievement and social emotional learning go hand-in-hand. Both are critical functions of the healthy development of our kids and students, and rely on deliberate practice. Without intentional mindfulness activities for kids and students, they don’t learn […]
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5 Calming, Relaxing, and Mindfulness Apps for Kids and Students
Technology is one of the many languages today’s kids and adolescents are fluent in! However, while our students are fluent in technology, they might not be as fluent in creating calmer responses, lowering their anxieties, and promoting their overall wellbeing. We’ve gathered up a collection of apps that focus on teaching your students how to […]
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Article
Five Healthy Coping Skills for Children
Raise your hand if this is you: It’s Saturday. You hop in the car. You turn on your ignition. Ten minutes later, you’re at the grocery store. But you don’t remember the road you took, the trees you saw, lilacs in bloom, or a smiling face on the crosswalk that passed you by. Or let’s […]
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6 Great Resources for Talking about Coronavirus with Kids
COVID-19 can be scary and difficult for younger kids to understand. Kids generally aren’t used to wearing masks, socially distancing, and spending long periods of time isolated from other kids. COVID-19 is also pretty challenging to explain even for adults. With new knowledge being discovered about the virus everyday, it can feel daunting to explain […]
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Anxiety Strategies in the Time of COVID-19
Anxiety. I think it’s safe to say that most people, if they’re being honest, would say that they’ve experienced some level of anxiety the last 5 months during the pandemic. School leaders are faced with the extremely difficult task of navigating how to re-open their schools safely, whether that looks like virtual learning for a […]
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Supporting student wellness and mental health
We are a team of certified school counselors and licensed mental health professionals striving to support student wellness and mental health education in schools. Our mission is to assist school counselors, school-based therapists, community licensed mental health practitioners, licensed specialists in school psychology, mental health educators and advocates seeking resources, training, and support that will maximize mental health wellness of all students.
We provide expert assistance, high-quality mental health education, and CEU opportunities for licensed mental health professionals.
Our professional development opportunities are specifically designed to support licensed mental health professionals needs related to research-based best practices, developing partnerships and programming with schools, ethics, personality and mood disorders, trauma-informed care, play therapy, and much more!
Need to get in touch?
Contact a member of our team for more information.
Jenny Brockway, 512-919-5469