Mental Health
Mental Health is a person's emotional, psychological and social well being. It is how people think, act and feel. Mental Health determines how people handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.
Social Emotional development is fundamental to academic, behaviorial, and social skills growth. Strong development of these skills leads to students having self-awareness, social-awareness, emotional regulation, responsible decision-making, and relationship-building competencies. School Mental Health professionals focus on supporting students to manage and resolve social, emotional, academic, and behavioral concerns that interfere with their learning and functioning at school. (DCSD Mental Health Services Flyer)
Our Intervention Team
Social/emotional support and intervention is a collaboration between administrators, teachers, parents, counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists. By building student skills in communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity, we prepare students for learning and for life. Our work covers prevention, as well as targeted and intensive intervention for those who need additional support.
Each school has a building-level crisis team that responds when unfortunate situations occur in a building. If the crisis is more intense or widespread, the building may also engage the district crisis team.
District Mental Health Crisis Team
In the event of a student, parent, or staff member death or other traumatic situation, the Douglas County School District's Crisis Team takes action. The District's mental health professionals and administrators work in conjunction with DCSD's Community Relations department and Douglas County law enforcement entities to provide assistance to our school communities.
How to find support and intervention
Each school has designated time from a school psychologist. Most buildings also have designated time from a school social worker. Each secondary school has counselors. To locate your school counselor, please check the building's website. Below are buttons to find the school psychologists and social workers who serve in your high school feeder.
“S” indicates Social Worker
“P” indicates Psychologist