-School counselor talks with junior Jorja Gonzales about her future plans in her office at Benny Benson Alternative High School in Anchorage.
“Do you think you would go to a group if there were other teenagers who had experienced a loss of a parent?” she asked. “Would that be less intimidating than maybe a therapist?” Hobart said her main goal as a school counselor is to help kids graduate, and that means looking at a lot more than just their grades or the number of credits they’ve earned. She also connects them to resources like food, safe transportation, or different types of mental health care.
The students know she’s required to report self-harm, abuse, or potential harm to others. If Reiman is concerned about a student for any reason, she talks to them then lets Hobart or the other counselors know. The school nurse sends students to the counselors, too. “If he was at the [mental health clinic’s] office, I don’t know that any of those kids that I sent to him would have gone to see him,” Hobart said. “But when he’s across the hall, and it’s presented as ‘Hey, just let us go meet them there.’ They’ll do it.”
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