“We're seeing kids in crisis,” the assistant principal at a public K-12 school with just one counselor says. Students say they see it too. Together, they created a peer counseling program to address mental health needs.
), the assistant principal at Westgate Community School, a K-12, public charter school in Thornton, Colorado. “And we noticed right away just that our counselor was like running around all day long just trying to meet with kid after kid after kid. She was literally just running around the building all day.”
The idea of enlisting students to serve as peer counselors was born out of a conversation with high school students who say this is a problem, too, Novak says., a 17-year-old senior and peer counselor at Westgate, says the students just needed someone to talk to. “I just tell them like, 'It's always happened. We just have so much technology at our fingertips now that it's recorded more. It's more known because we're not, we're more connected than we've ever been as a society in general.' ”
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