Mental Health
Our Recent issue of Vanguard Magazine on Student Mental Health 
Articles
More and More Children Are Feeling Anxious. This Graphic Novelist Is Trying to Help.
New York Times
A Rise In Depression Among Teens And Young Adults Could Be Linked To Social Media Use
NPR
Nearly 1 in 5 teens seriously considers suicide. Can schools offer relief?
PBS
Why Principals Need to Make Student Mental Health a Priority
Education Week
Student Trauma Is Widespread. Schools Don’t Have to Go It Alone
Olga Acosta Price and Wendy Ellis for Education Week
Everyday trauma reshapes Rochester schools’ approach to teaching and supervision
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Anxiety: Why It’s Different From Stress
Understood
In High School, the Kids Are Not All Right
By David Tow for Edutopia
Treating Mental Health Issues in School – A Multi-Pronged Approach
By Linda Bille, LCSW-R, School Social Worker, Averill Park Central School District
Video
ACE – Adverse Childhood Experiences and using the ACE study to become a Trauma Informed School
Resilience – Trailer of a documentary discussing the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences
How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.
Treating Childhood Trauma
Oprah Winfrey reports on how trauma plays a role in childhood development and what new methods are being used to help kids who have experienced it.