PAUSD Health and Wellness Resources
PAUSD's list of physical and mental health resources: https://www.pausd.org/student-supports/health-wellness
What to do if your child is in crisis
PAUSD Parent Guide to Risk Assessment and Safety
This document is a reference guide you may use when you feel like your child may be facing a potential mental health emergency. It includes some safety risk indicators that may lead to major warning signs.
It outlines steps you can take to get access to a professional risk assessment, as well as information about what it will look like when you go to an emergency room specifically for mental health support. We hope that this will give you all the information you need to access support in the community.
As you use this tool, please look for patterns and an accumulation of symptoms and/or behaviors, in order to best figure out the best next steps for your child and family. If you believe that your child is an imminent threat to themselves or others, please call 911 immediately or go to the nearest emergency room.
Community Resources & Support
allcove - (650) 798-6330
A local space for youth to find community, support, advice, or even just a moment of pause. Located on Middlefield Rd., allcove Palo Alto is open from 10 am-7 pm, Monday-Friday. Available for youth 12+, they are open year-round to provide mental health care, peer support, education and employment services, psychiatry, and medical services free of charge. They host weekly events, including game nights, workshops, and more. Learn more at www.allcove.org.
Asian Americans for Community Involvement
AACI offers health, wellness, and behavioral health services, which include individual and family counseling. AACI offers linguistically and culturally sensitive services that help clients overcome barriers to care. Their trauma-informed, client-centered, community-based approach includes individual, groups, and family counseling for ages 6 and up at their clinics, in the home, at school, or in the community. More information is available at www.aaci.org.
Care Solace - (888) 515-0595
The Care Solace Care Concierge is a 24x7 service for parents and staff. They are experts at hand-holding families through the mental health care process. They navigate insurance, look at availability and wait time of resources, and help families schedule appointments with local and trusted mental health resources. The purpose of this program is so that families and district staff do not have to do the heavy lifting required to search and call. More information is available at https://www.caresolace.com/site/pausdfamilies
Children's Health Council (CHC)
Affordable teen therapy services that include individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy and psychiatry services. They also share many educational resources for families such as the CHC podcast, resource library, and events. Learn more at www.chconline.org, or call 650-688-3625.
KARA Grief Support
Change and loss are natural in the cycle of life. We experience grief and emotional distress with any significant loss. Support from those who have experience in dealing with personal loss can help ease the pain and promote healing. Kara provides a safe place for those who are grieving or anticipating their own death to express and normalize their feelings. More information is available at www.kara-grief.org.
Outlet
Outlet is a youth empowerment program serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning teens (LGBTQQ) in the Bay Area. As the only comprehensive resource for LGBTQQ+ youth on the Peninsula, Outlet provides professional counseling, caring support services, and community building social activities to this particularly vulnerable population. In Addition, Outlet is developing the next generation of LGBT community advocates by engaging youth with leadership training, coalition building, and civic activism. More information is available at www.acs-teens.org/what-we-do/outlet.
Parents/Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity. More information is available at www.pflag.org.
Parents Helping Parents - (408) 727-5775
Help children and adults with special needs receive the support and services they need to reach their full potential by providing information, training, and resources to build strong families and improve systems of care. Learn more at www.php.com