Our Role

Collaboration/Coordination

Through our collaborative efforts with SCOE and Grenada Elementary, Siskiyou County Behavioral Health is creating a presence in the school communities that promotes mental wellness, healthy stress management skills, self-care, and aims to destigmatize asking for help. Many schools use a MTSS (Multi-tiered System of Supports) framework to teach Social-Emotional Learning (SEL).  SEL skills are important lifelong skills which help to foster healthy community building. SEL can help students learn important skills such as self-awareness, self-management,  personal responsibility, and can help them develop goal-directed behavior. SEL can also help students thrive by teaching them optimistic thinking, personal responsibility, social awareness, relationship building skills and can help students hone their decision-making skills; SEL fosters healthy community building skills.

Siskiyou County Behavioral Health is working with SCOE and all districts to ensure that schools have the resources necessary to identify and assess students that may need additional support to achieve success in their schooling, and ultimately, in life. Through working with professionals trained in trauma-informed care, students can achieve success through gaining self-insight and learning important skills that will help them throughout their life.

Siskiyou County Behavioral Health, with the assistance of the BHSSA funds, aims to bridge the gap of underserved school-based youth by promoting onsite mental health services, increasing linkage and accessibility of services, and ending the stigma of asking for help.