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2020-21 Student Support Groups:
The following groups are designed to provide support and assistance to students and their families. If you are interested in a group or would like to learn more about one, please contact a member of your SST or one of the group facilitators.
¡Adelante! is an affinity group for LatinX females that provides a safe space to share experiences and to celebrate cultural heritage. The goal of Adelante is to provide a supportive and empowering environment for students as well as a sense of belonging and connectedness to SHS and the community. Facilitators: Sarah Kellogg, Carol Seeger
Be You is a semester-long process and psycho-educational group that focuses on helping female students celebrate the amazing internal and external qualities that make them who they are. The group will engage in self-esteem building activities in order to help students build their confidence and achieve their goals. Facilitators: Megan Kelly, Irina Kogan
Boys of Color Affinity Group provides psycho-educational support and affirmations by providing a sense of belonging and connectedness. Facilitators: Jaison Varghese, Hector Vazquez
COA (Children of Addicts) assists students affected by a parent/guardian abusing drugs/alcohol. The group focuses on learning about the disease of addiction, sharing feelings, and helping each other find healthy coping skills. Facilitator: Janet Sushinski
Coping in the Age of Covid (Processing Current Events Group) is a safe space for students to discuss a variety of unexpected current events impacting our daily lives in 2020. The group will focus on processing stress and frustrations, and developing and implementing healthy coping strategies. Facilitators: Liza Shoemaker, Lindsay Puppolo
Coping Skills Psycho-Educational Group is a six-week curriculum based group focusing on healthy strategies for coping with daily life stressors. Students will identify triggers to their own stressors and learn multiple strategies to manage them. Facilitators: Jorie Walton, Lindsay Perkins, Christina Foss, Danielle Colletti
FAB (Female and Black) is an affinity group that provides support and affirmations by providing a sense of belonging and connectedness. Facilitator: TBD
Grief Support Group offers a safe, supportive environment in which students share and process grief and connect students with others who are also coping with the death of an immediate family member, establish connections with others to decrease the isolation that grief brings, and learn that there are many different ways to grieve. Facilitators: Lisa Scanio, Dawn Timm
Neuro-Meditation for a Peaceful Mind is a six-week psycho-educational group that will focus on the brain and the effect that stress and our own thoughts have on our bodies and minds. Each week we will learn about how our brain works and then practice a meditation. Participants will learn strategies to decrease stress and allow our brains to work effectively. Facilitators: Amy Grove, Jen Polisky
Project 10 Midwest provides a safe place for students who identify with the LGBTQ community. The group is a space to explore sexual and/or gender identity. Facilitators: Claire Burja, Tricia Ebel
Watershed: Covid-19 Grief/Loss Support Group offers a safe, supportive environment in which students share and process grief and loss related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This group will connect students with other students who are coping with significant losses or life changes due to the pandemic, which may include the death of an immediate family member, the loss of routine, or other disruptions to significant life events that have resulted in one experiencing grief. Resources for coping, healing and community support will also be shared within the group. Facilitators: Jordan Halic, Addison Taylor, Anthony Lazzara
If you would like to join a group, please contact a member of your Student Support Team or the group facilitator.
*If there is an emergency (a crisis or safety situation) during the school day or after school hours please contact your parent/guardian, call 9-1-1, go to your nearest emergency room, or use Lake County Text-A-Tip (text LAKECO to 847-823-5323 immediately!
