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How to Start a Student Wellness Center

Using School Wellness Centers to Address the Emotional Needs of Students https://mentalhealthawarenesseducatio... AnneMoss Rogers, a mental health keynote speaker and suicide prevention trainer for schools and businesses interviews Jennifer Bitton, a wellness center expert and an educator with 30 years of education experience. 00:00 Introduction 02:12  What is it that inspired you to pursue a mental wellness center in the first place? And give us a date when all of this started. 06: 28  Do you think that the student suicides fueled the intensity of that fundraising? Is that kind of how you got so much support?  07:37  You ended up opening back up, right? 08:16  Where did you start before you went wellness center? Or did you go all in? 09:22  Did you ever do groups in the wellness center? 10:34  We hear a lot about access to care.  I think we need more of these group approaches to be able to meet the needs of students....Would you agree with that? 13:32  Speaking of numbers, how do you gather data?  Share some of the results. 15:55  So, it was also kind of like a triage system? 18:53  What do you think if it was two people staffing the center? 19:57  Did you have students who used it to escape classroom work?  And did they get rowdy?  And, if you didn’t run into that as a problem – what other problems did you have? 21:14  I’m going to back up to where you talked about teacher backing and teacher support.  And it sounded like that was a pretty important point, so I wanted to dig into that for a minute. 22:20  Do you feel like that helped with behavior in the classroom and maybe fewer discipline…less time administrating disciplinary issues? 23:45  In terms of school safety, it sounds to me like it is punctuating that safe space of a place to go and creating that feeling of having school safety. Which is really hard to achieve these days. 25:18  I would imagine that you could develop certain programs that would bring in different genders and sexes, and if you had body image versus toxic masculinity.  I think it also kind of meets them where they are. I think that it is really difficult 27:35  Did you do anything around vulnerability? 28:09  So, you offered support and you didn’t disdain anybody who asked for it. But you encouraged them if they were uncomfortable with it that they did have support and to please ask for it. (Discussion about grief groups and grieving – and the tendency for many to rush and get things back to normal and brush over the “other grief stuff.”) 31:30  So, what are some other success stories or testimonials that you’ve gotten from parents, teachers, students? 34:15  Discussion about a project of student videos and quotes for “What I Wish My Teachers Knew” and how the teachers responded with “What I Wish My Students Knew” – and the vulnerability of both groups.  37:35  What was the format like?  Were people sitting at round tables?  38:05  So, is it still running now at the school where you were? 38:57 In the future, would you ever think that that was a place you could plug in and be a consultant for building a wellness center at your school? 39:47 You're also a speaker on the topic because that’s where we met.  I was speaking at Utah Valley and I came to watch yours after the keynote and, I picked it out of all the ones available.  (Discussion about partnering with outside entities.) 41:51  Well, dig into some of that.  Into some of those reasons a little bit. 44:44  I think that, when you get students behind the effort.  When you have them asking, it is hard to say no. 45:37  So, where in the process are you now? And, I know it moves slowly. 46:25  One of the schools here has something similar that they’ve started and they have a trailer in the back and that is their thing.... 48:28  Tell us some of the nuts-and-bolts things that are included in the space that you have. 50:09  You got all of this through the Foundation?  Or was that through the Amazon wish lists? 51:10  I’m curious what advice you might have for others who might be interested in starting a similar…like you dove right in.  But I think that’s not always going to work.  Where would you suggest are places they could start sorta small? 55:09  What was the purpose of the 20-minute time limit? 55:26  You didn’t kick them out?  It was kind of a  suggestion that they have that amount of time? 57:41  I want to give you a moment to tell everybody where they can find you.  I did put in the chat that we’re both on LinkedIn – we’d love for you to follow us on LinkedIn.  We’ve got our email addresses in there.  Tell us about what your next steps are.