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School Counselors: Engage Parents with a Family Check-Up
By Laurel Lisovskis, BSW Part 6 in our Share the Wealth series. Click to read other Share the Wealth posts. Looking for a way to gently guide parents who want to play a bigger role in their child’s academic experience … Continue reading →
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Starting a Gay-Straight Alliance: One Middle School Student’s Story
By Laurel Lisovskis, BSW Part 5 in our Share the Wealth series. Click to read other Share the Wealth posts. Upon entering her eighth-grade year as a new student at our middle school, Jessie, whose name has been changed to … Continue reading →
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Tagged gay-straight alliance, GLBTQ, GSAs, junior high, middle school, school counselor, Share the Wealth
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Embracing Endings: How to Talk to Your School Community About the Onset of Summer
By Laurel Lisovskis, BSW Part 4 in our Share the Wealth series. Click to read other Share the Wealth posts. For those of us who live by the academic calendar, this time of year can be FULL. We are buried in our … Continue reading →
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Hot Topic Lunch—Students Leading Students to Improve Social Climate
By Laurel Lisovskis, BSW Part 3 in our Share the Wealth series. Click to read other Share the Wealth posts. As an MSW intern at the school-based Bethel Health Center, working under the only therapist in the district, I have been noticing … Continue reading →
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Tagged conversation, junior high, middle school, school climate, school counselor, Share the Wealth
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Integrated Healthcare in a School-Based Health Center
By Laurel Lisovskis Part 2 in our Share the Wealth series. Click to read other Share the Wealth posts. At 6:30 on a Thursday morning, I found myself driving to Salem, Oregon, with a fellow intern and a small group … Continue reading →