Amid the growing crisis in youth mental health services, Cherry Creek School District in Greenwood Village, Colorado, is trying something new: constructing a new building that will be part mental health medical facility, part school.
services, Cherry Creek School District in Greenwood Village, Colorado, is trying something new: constructing a new building that will be part mental health medical facility, part school.
University of Colorado's Department of Psychiatry professor Anthony Bruno says the approach hasn't been tried before anywhere in the country. Traverse Academy was the brainchild of Dr. Tony Poole, assistant superintendent of special populations for the Cherry Creek School District. When complete the facility will be divided into three sections: a full-time day treatment facility for acute mental health care, an area with less intense mental health services where educational instruction will be introduced, and an entire wing where the students will focus on their education while also receiving mental health services.
"What happened in Cherry Creek is probably what happens in a lot of other school districts around the country," said Bruno."They [the district] really don't have the resources necessarily always to deal with kids with serious emotional issues. So, what do they do? They look outside of the school for help in placing kids so that they can have more intense mental health treatment.
And data from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry shows 79% of the nation, 41 states, have a"severe" shortage of child psychiatrists. In his 34 years in education, Poole echoed Bruno, saying educators and medical professionals have always tended to stay in their own lanes. Currently, Cherry Creek runs a Sources of Strength project to increase well-being for all students by developing resiliency and a sense of belonging. The program also created an therapy class open to anyone in the school. Calling the issue of child mental health"the most pressing issue facing our state and our country," Dr.
"If we don't do a better job of creating environments where kids can grow and learn and be successful and thrive socially and emotionally, we are not doing our job for the next generation," Lueck said. "In a lot of different Asian cultures, mental health or struggles are not really emphasized as much as it is in Western cultures," Vanessa said."That's just a huge indicator of the kind of silencing that happens in a lot of families because of stigmas like this. It's not just kids who need to learn more about mental health. It's also adults and the people who are the most afraid of it.
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