Student and Family Support
Karla Harris, LCSW
816-318-5129
Resources In Your Child's School
School Counseling Office Information
Social Worker
Behavior Interventionist
Donielle Robinson
Sarah Tucker
Toiya Mickles-Harris
Trelanie Johnson-Willis
Shannon Johnson
Derek Jamison
Jessica Park
School-Based Mental Health Programs
ReDiscover
ReDiscover is a mental health agency that serves Eastern Jackson County. Within the agency, a child can receive therapy, case management, and medication services. Our school-based clinicians in the Grandview C-4 School District are qualified mental health professionals who provide counseling and case management services during a student’s school day. They are housed within a school and work only with students at the assigned school.
Our school-based clinicians can support students, teachers, and families regarding mental health in the following ways:
- Mental health appointments or check-ins with students, teachers, or families
- Classroom support for students
- Resources to families needing additional financial, social, or emotional assistance
- Crisis intervention with students
- Consult on problem behaviors exhibited in the classroom
- Attend emotional/behavioral school team meetings
- Provide building-specific support to staff, such as student home support, class presentations on mental health, small groups, family outreach, etc.
Cornerstones of Care
Cornerstones of Care provides behavioral health screenings, therapy, case management, groups, crisis support, observation and consultation for students, parents and school personnel in Pre-K through 8th grade. The goal is to identify students with social and emotional needs to provide appropriate interventions in the classroom and at home that build individual resilience and school success.
Our Partnership with Cornerstones of Care Focuses on:
- Provide annual, universal, valid, and reliable child screening and assessment to target the specific needs of each individual student.
- Provide support to the child, parent, and school personnel to increase understanding of how students' social and emotional health impacts student learning.
- Provide direct services to students, parents, and school personnel to meet the specific social and emotional needs of identified at-risk students.
Mental Health and Healthy Living
Suicide Prevention and Awareness
Signs of Suicide is a universal, school-based depression awareness and suicide prevention program designed for our middle-school or high-school students. The goals are to . . .
- Decrease suicide and suicide attempts by increasing student knowledge and adaptive attitudes about depression.
- Encourage students to seek help for themselves or their friends.
- Reduce the stigma of mental illness and acknowledge the importance of seeking help or treatment.
- Engage parents and school staff as partners in prevention.
- Develop community-based partnerships to support student mental health
Through the program, students learn:
- that depression is treatable, so they are encouraged to seek help
- how to identify depression and potential suicide risk in themselves or a friend
- to ACT (Acknowledge, Care, and Tell a trusted adult) if concerned about themselves or a friend
- who they can turn to at school for help, if they need it
Parent Resources
We encourage you to visit www.sossignsofsuicide.org/parent for information on warning signs of youth suicide, useful resources, and some of the key messages students will learn.
Helpful Acknowledge-Care-Tell (ACT) Information
ACT Parent Information- English
ACT Parent Information- Spanish
Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention Procedures and Protocols Manual