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PAGE A6, KEIZERTIMES, SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 mental health services. “Some schools make space available right next to the counselor, so continued from Page A1 students know when that’s go- ing. Some people make space 24 died by suicide in Marion available [in a different place] County. The following year, every week so we’re bounced that number jumped to 18 around.” He continued: “We’ve young people. found that in schools that “People are afraid to ask the make a consistent space avail- questions and part of it is to able, everyone knows the say, you can ask the question,” he said. “So it builds a little counselor is there and there’s bit of confi dence and people better coordination of care. need that. It's almost like peo- The one that the counselor has ple need permission to ask the to show up and get bounced question, ‘Can I talk to kids around, there’s less continuity about suicide?’ The answer is of care because students don’t always, yes, please talk to them, know where that person is.” Getting the word out about he said. mental health In addition services has to staff train- been another ings around challenge. Mc- mental health Nary is one of and suicide, the the schools be- district is be- ing served by ginning to roll an outpatient out outpatient therapist—but therapy based many students in the school. and parents The prior su- — Phil Blea at the school per intendent know County supervisor for don’t didn’t allow about them. youth mental health outside mental There’s pit- services health services falls at the in- in schools, so stitutional lev- it’s only been in el as well. The the past few years that the dis- district leaves communication trict even considered in-school mental health services for stu- about district mental health initiatives to the discretion of dents. The district has partnered each building. “Some folks take with Marion and Polk coun- fi ve minutes in a staff meeting, ties, as well as the community some folks go in depth and mental health provider Tril- talk for 45 minutes,” Fend- lium Family Services to be- er said. “That’s an area where gin placing part-time mental we’ve found that the infor- health counselors in schools mation we’re sharing doesn’t during the past academic year. get shared the same across all It’s a newborn initia- buildings. So the communica- tive. Twenty-seven out of 65 tion piece is something we’re schools receive some kind of trying to fi gure out.” The problem is, even when support from a mental health students know about services, counselor, and the district seeks they’re often limited in scope. to expand that number in the Therapists typically serve mul- coming years. Some schools have been more receptive to tiple schools, only working part-time at any given school, the therapists than others. “The hard part is, Sa- and can only serve students lem-Keizer is a huge district. on the Oregon Health Plan. Some schools value mental While the goal is to serve the health more than others,” said “highest need” students, all Phil Blea, Marion County’s students - even those on pri- program supervisor for youth vate insurance - struggle to get appropriate care, especially when they can’t be seen by in- school providers. “There’s only so much we can do as a school district to connect them through their private or commercial insur- ance,” Fender said. “We can steer parents in the right direc- tion, but I’m going to be com- pletely honest - there’s a six to The Salem Alliance Church eight month wait list to receive will be holding a event for therapy in this community.” parents and kids on the Other school districts have harmful effects of social media. addressed the gap in service The event is being hosted availability in different ways. by a group of moms in the In Minnesota, a state that has community who support been nationally recognized for #SAVETHEKIDS. its school-based mental health Admission is free and this program, all therapists work informational session will take in each school full time. This place on Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. maximizes the effi cacy of the A Spanish translator will be therapist, who becomes a fi x- available. ture in the school as much as Collin Kartchner, a internet the school counselors. Work- crusader and youth advocate, ing at an individual school founded the organization and full-time allows the therapists will be speaking at the church. For more information on him and the organization, visit savethekids.us. You can also visit the Empowering Parents | Saving Kids Facebook page. TEENS, S DRIVE A LITTLE – SAVE A BUNCH! 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE • SALEM MORE INFO AT NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM OPEN CAPTION SHOWING Aladdin (PG) Wednesday, Sept 25 SAT, SEPT 21 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) 11:00 AM TICKETS ARE JUST $4 SPECIAL SHOWING FOR KIDS AND ADULTS WITH AUTISM OR OTHER SENSORY SENSITIVITIES. 6 PM, TICKETS ARE $4/EACH. Special showing with captioning shown on screen with the movie. LIVE STAND UP COMEDY Lights, Comedy, Laughs! Saturday, October 12 CHARLIE WIENER & MONICA NEVI will perform at 7pm and 9pm. Admission is only $10. Ages 21 & over only. Reserved seating for this show. Purchase tickets at box offi ce or at our website. Today in History In a highly publicized “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match, top women’s player Billie Jean King, 29, beats Bobby Riggs, 55, a former No. 1 ranked men’s player. Riggs a self-proclaimed male chauvinist, had boasted that women were inferior, that they couldn’t handle the pressure of the game. The match was witnessed by over 50 million TV viewers worldwide. King beat Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. King’s achievement not only helped legitimize women’s professional tennis and female athletes, but it was seen as a victory for women’s rights in general. — September 20, 1973 Food 4 Thought “Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athlete because they’re more dedicated to achieving their full potential.” — Red Auerbach, Boston Celtics coach, born Sept. 20, 1917 The Weeks Ahead Through Sunday, September 28 Pentacle Theatre presents The Great American Trailer Park Musical. This musical comedy contains explicit language and adult themes. For showtimes and tickets visit pentacletheatre.org. Tuesday, September 24 Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, September 25 Free community dinner, 5 p.m., St. Edward Catholic Church, 5303 River Rd. N. Facebook.com/keizer- community-dinner. Elsinore Theatre’s Wednesday Film Series presents Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Admission is $6 or $40 for 8 admissions. Friday, September 26 — Saturday, October 12 Willamette University Theatre presents Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus. For more details visit willamette.edu/ arts/theatre. Saturday, September 27 – Monday, September 30 Oregon Symphony, led by conductor Carlos Kalmar, presents Brahms’ Symphony No. 2, with pianist Garrick Ohlsson. The evening also includes Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25. Visit www.orsymphonysalem.org to purchase tickets and for more details. Tuesday, October 1 Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, October 5 McNary High School’s class of 1979 will hold their 40-year reunion at the Keizer Civic Center. For more information, go to mcnary79.net or email the reunion committee at mcnaryclassof79@gmail.com. Sunday, October 6 “Finding the Psalms in Our Hymns” a hymn festival led by Dr. Carl P. Daw, a professor of theology at Boston University. There will be a choir and brass ensemble conducted by Paul Klemme. 4-5 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1444 Liberty Street SE, Salem. Wednesday, October 9 Elsinore Theatre’s Wednesday Film Series presents Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Admission is $6 or $40 for 8 admissions. “Some schools value mental health more than others,” PARENTS: Info session on youth and social media Friday, October 18 – Saturday, November 9 Pentacle theatre presents Mothers and Sons. Visit pentacletheatre.org for more information about the play. Wednesday, October 23 Psycho will be at the Elsinore Theatre for $6 a person at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, November 9 Model train swap meet, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Rickreall Grange, 280 Main Street (Highway 99). Admission: $5 (under 12 free). 503-857-2108. Add your event by e-mailing reporter@keizertimes.com “[Students] talking about it isn’t the issue, it’s if they’re being listened to,” maze looking back in the KT Friday, October 11 – Sunday, November 3 Enlightened Theatrics presents The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Visit the box offi ce or EnlightenedTheatrics.org for tickets and more information. Friday – Sunday, October 11 – 13 and Friday – Sunday, October 18 – 20 Sorry, Wrong Number / The Hitchhiker, two one- act plays by Lucille Fletcher. Staged reading at Keizer Homegrown Theatre at the Keizer Cultural Center, 980 Chemawa Rd. N.E. Tickets are $10; free admission for Oregon Trail card holders. Performances at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. on Sundays.Visit Facebook.com/ keizerhomegrowntheatre for more information. When she visited a coun- not only to see students in treatment, but also to consult selor at her middle school, she with school staff about navi- said, the counselor told her, gating student mental health “‘I’m sorry. That sucks,’” Flint concerns. Minnesota’s program said. “And just gave me a tissue has mitigated the struggle with box” That wasn’t helpful, she insurance by contracting all services to community pro- added. So, when Flint got to high viders with county support - which means school therapists school, she tried to address can see both kids on the state the need through student ac- Medicaid insurance and those tion. But after several months of trying to get the club off on private insurance. Offering services to a the ground, the effort fi zzled broader swath of Salem-Keizer out. Students didn’t coalesce youth is a goal, Fender said, but behind the club despite what she sees as the glaring need for it’s further into the future. Even for students who do better mental health support. Flint attributes the club’s qualify for school-based help, mental health needs can go be- lack of success, in part, to busy yond therapy - some students students; one promising offi cer need more intense interven- for the club, she said, had to tion, others just a bit of pre- withdraw after getting hired at an after-school job. ventative support. But she also sees a culture When an initiative to ad- dress other types of need crops that doesn’t create spaces for up, it often encounters dead kids to talk about their mental ends. The lack of funding is a health. “People are scared to come constant refrain, and even pro- ductive initiatives are short- forward,” she said. “Depression is this thing that makes you lived as a result. For the 2018 calendar year, want to isolate yourself.” This means that kids need the mental health provider Tril- the adults to lium received a reach out to grant to pro- them, Flint vide preven- said. As the tion services district survey at Washington found, that’s and Brush Col- often not hap- lege elemen- pening. tary schools, Even as Crossler Mid- the district dle School, institutes re- and McKay forms—in- High School. cluding adding According to Chiharu Blatt, — Brooklyn Flint mental health director of McNary student resource infor- mation to the Trillium’s Wil- back of student lamette Valley community services, the pre- identifi cation cards for the vention grant created such ser- coming year—it’s clear the re- vices as small skills groups for sponse lags far behind the need. students, education and con- Reforms mean little without a sultations for school staff and school culture that prioritizes parents, and created a drop-in student mental wellness. “The school is barely allow- area for students to get advice ing us in,” Blea said, referring and referrals from a clinician. But after the grant dried up, to county mental health ser- so did the prevention services. vices. “They’re getting better.” Mental health advocates Another pervasive problem is the ongoing stigma around join the kids in saying that all mental health. Without a people who work with youth school culture that recognizes need to take a more proactive mental health concerns as real approach in reaching out to and immediate problems for kids about their mental health. youth, kids can’t get the sup- Blea describes mental health as port they need. And many of a “hot potato” issue - some- those who work with youth - thing that’s passed around be- and the youth themselves - say cause no one wants to deal kids are more and more open with it. That needs to end, he said. to talking about their needs, if “It would be great to lean they’re given a space to voice into the problem versus lean- them. “[Students] talking about it ing out of the problem. So the isn’t the issue, it’s if they’re be- families, schools, and commu- ing listened to,” Brooklyn Flint, nity need to not be afraid of talking to youth about men- a junior at McNary, said. Flint discovered how a tal health issues,” Blea said. “If school’s culture can stifl e stu- we can get everybody to think dent’s attempts to reach out. about what’s my role, how do I During Flint’s freshman year get them help, where do I get she tried to start a club to give the referral, the better it will students a safe space when be.” Next week, learn how struggling with mental health concerns. Flint saw the need LGBTQ+ youth are dispro- for the club after coming up portionately impacted by mental short for resources for her own health concerns. depression. 5 YEARS AGO 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE THIS WEEK’S MOVIE TIMES Toy Story 4 (G) Fri 12:20, 2:25, 4:20, 6:40, Sat 11:15, 1:10, 3:05, 5:05, Sun 12:00, 1:55, 3:50 Spiderman Extended Far From Home (PG-13) Fri 3:10, 6:15, 8:45, Sat 2:45, 7:05, 9:25, sun 12:50, 5:50, 8:15 The Kitchen (R) Sat 9:15 Angry Brids Movie 2 (PG) Fri 4:40, Sat 12:50, Sun 3:15 Yesterday (PG-13) Sat 5:30, Sun 5:10 Aladdin (PG) Fri 12:45, 2:15, 5:50, Sat 11:40, 2:05, 4:30, 6:55 Sun 2:15, 4:40 Rocketman (R) Fri 8:30 John Wick: Chapter 3 (R) Sat 7:45 Secret Life of Pets 2 (PG) Sun 12:30, 7:05 Men in Black: Intn’l (PG-13) Fri 8:20, Sun 7:25 FOR ALL SHOWTIMES GO TO NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM ServeFest returns Sunday For the sixth time, Lakepoint Community Church is hosting ServeFest, a ministry that encourages Christians to “be the church,” serving the needs within the community. 10 YEARS AGO Back on top Volcanoes are the Northwest League champions once again. Maze by Jonathan Graf of Keizer 15 YEARS AGO McNary Celts pitch in to help ailing teammate The McNary football team is offering players for hire to do chores in exchange for donations to help cover teammate Nate VanSlochteren’s medical expenses in a battle with cancer. 20 YEARS AGO Keizer test scores add up to problems in math Students at every Keizer school generally did better on state tests in English but showed dropping performance in certain math tests. sudoku Enter digits from 1-9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each digit. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square.
