Fresno County program providing mental health support for students during winter break

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Winter abrogation is simply a bully mid-school-year interruption for students, who person been moving hard since the fall.

"Fresno County information shows betterment each the mode crossed done ELA, mathematics and science," said Dr. Diane Lira, the Deputy Superintendent of Instruction astatine the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools.

While galore can't hold to unbend for the adjacent fewer weeks and bask the holidays, for others, it tin beryllium a pugnacious time. Dr. Lira says enactment is captious for students extracurricular of the classroom.

"These are times of inconsistencies for our students," said Dr. Lira. "Whether they beryllium connected that schoolroom routine, their peers, oregon colleagues. The location situation mightiness sometimes bring immoderate troubling times."

That's wherefore the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools wants to boost intelligence wellness enactment for students done its All 4 Youth program.

The programme offers services successful homes, schools, nationalist settings and astatine its 12 Wellness Centers, including astatine Orange Center Elementary School disconnected South Cherry Avenue.

"They mightiness request clothing, they mightiness request assistance filling retired an application," said Trina Frazier, the Assistant Superintendent of Student Services. "Those are the things that are disposable to each students and each families. We're besides providing mild intelligence services for students."

The wellness centers supply a harmless space. Frazier helps oversee the program.

"We're successful 31 schoolhouse districts successful the county. We're successful immoderate charter schools arsenic well," said Fraizer.

The escaped programme launched successful 2018 and provides enactment for students up to 25 years old. Frazier tells Action News All 4 Youth is simply a year-round program. Having that helping manus tin marque it easier to get backmost into the schoolhouse swing.

"They are looking for enactment and erstwhile they get it, they've been precise satisfied with the services from us," said Fraizer.

People who request services tin sojourn the All 4 Youth website.

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