This page is provided as a resource to Front Range Christian School parents whose children might require help with a mental health challenge or crisis.
Helpful Articles
This article from Children’s Hospital can help parents determine whether or not parents should call a hotline or go to the ER during a mental health crisis.
Possible Resources
If your child experiences a mental health challenge or crisis, the following counseling services are available in our community.
- https://www.sojourncounselingco.com/
- https://gracecounseling.net/
- https://southwestcounseling.org/
- https://christiancounselingco.com/
- https://secounseling.org/
- http://lovingfamiliestherapy.com/
- https://restorationhope.com/our-clinicians/
- https://www.veruscounselinggroup.com/about-me
If immediate action is required:
- Colorado Crisis Services
(844-493-8255; https://coloradocrisisservices.org/)
If you or someone you know needs help, call the Colorado Crisis Support line to speak to a counselor or peer specialist. This provides immediate in-person support, information, and referrals. - In a life-threatening emergency, call 911
- Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, call 988 (If local assistance is not available)
Helpful Definitions
Mental health is a state of well-being in which the individual realizes their abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and can make a contribution to their community (World Health Organization)
A mental health challenge is when:
- There is a major change in a person’s thoughts, feelings or actions
- The change interferes with a person’s ability to live their lives, and
- The interference does not go away quickly and lasts longer than typical emotions or reactions would be expected to last (MHFA)
A mental health crisis is when a person is at increased risk of harm to themselves or others. A crisis requires adult, and likely professional, intervention (MHFA). Possible crises are: suicidality, self-injury, aggression, physchosis, and panic attacks (if the student doesn’t know what’s happening).
A common experience is a developmentally appropriate behavior, set of emotions, or thoughts that many students share. For example:
Common Experience
- Withdrawing from family
- Spending more time with friends
- Seeking privacy
- Changing interests
- Situational anxiety
- Being irritable
Possible Mental Health Challenge
- Withdrawing from everyone
- Isolating from friends
- Concealing behaviors
- Loss of interest in activities
- Ongoing anxiety
- Wide, sustained mood swings
