CAPE COUNSELING
We have a CAPE counselor on campus on Thursdays
The Crisis Assessment, Prevention, and Education Team (CAPE Team) is a prevention and early intervention strategy specifically designed to intervene with transition age youth ages, 16 to 25, who are at risk of or are experiencing first onset of serious psychiatric illness and its multiple issues and risk factors: substance use, trauma, depression, anxiety, self harm, and suicide risk.
The CAPE Team aims to prevent the occurrence and severity of mental health problems for transition age youth. The CAPE Team is staffed by Sonoma County Behavioral Health licensed mental health clinicians. Services are located in 9 Sonoma County high schools, Santa Rosa Junior College and Sonoma State University.
The CAPE Team has 5 essential components:
The CAPE Team aims to prevent the occurrence and severity of mental health problems for transition age youth. The CAPE Team is staffed by Sonoma County Behavioral Health licensed mental health clinicians. Services are located in 9 Sonoma County high schools, Santa Rosa Junior College and Sonoma State University.
The CAPE Team has 5 essential components:
- Mobile Response in schools by licensed mental health clinicians with youth who may be experiencing a mental health crisis.
- Consultation, Screening, and Assessment of at-risk youth in high schools and colleges.
- Training and Education for students, selected teachers, faculty, parents, counselors and law enforcement personnel to increase awareness and ability to recognize the warning signs of suicide and psychiatric illness.
- Peer-based and Family Services including increasing awareness, education and training, counseling, and support groups for at-risk youth and their families.
- Integration and Partnership with existing school and community resources including school resource officers, district crisis intervention teams, student and other youth organizations, health centers, counseling programs, and family supports including National Alliance on Mental Illness and Sonoma County Behavioral Health Division (SC-BHD).
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