School administrators and counselors are on the front lines of mental health support and are seeking to address the challenges faced by students including anxiety, depression and suicide, racial and economic disparities, addiction, and fear of school violence. Educators and counselors are actively seeking to address these needs, but often lack funding and evidence-based resources to truly make an impact.
Denver Seminary is helping to address the mental health crises schools are facing through the School Counseling and Mental Health Initiative (SCMHI). We welcome your support as we work with strategic partners to make real, positive, lasting change.
As the only seminary in the nation offering a fully accredited MA in Counseling with a concentration in School Counseling, Denver Seminary is uniquely poised to lead this charge.
There is a keen awareness of the need for clinically trained counselors and clinically informed educators and administrators in schools. Through the School Counseling and Mental Health Initiative, Denver Seminary and our partners will:
- Facilitate trainings for educators, equipping them with skills and knowledge to address the mental health needs of their students and communities
- Increase research-based knowledge and collaboration between public, private, and charter schools, professional counseling organizations, mental health providers, and Denver Seminary
- Research the mental health needs of students to collaboratively develop interventions and programming in schools to decrease the impact of mental health issues on students, families, school staff, and communities
- Generate research and evidence-based practice knowledge that will be disseminated nationally
This initiative is one crucial piece of a much larger puzzle of addressing school safety and mental health. For Denver Seminary, it is another way God has called us to prepare men and women to engage the needs of the world through the redemptive power of the gospel and the life-changing truth of Scripture.