HB 18 - MYCS School Mental Health Training Can Help

by Becky Kemp, Title I School Counselor

With the signing of HB 18, Texas has put more of an emphasis on increasing mental health training for teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals, and other school staff. MYCS can help with training! We see many programs developed for teachers/staff to deliver to students in hopes they will see improvement in student behaviors.

What if we focus on improving the ability of all staff and students to manage: problems, behaviors, relationships, communication, and their own mental health?

We can teach your staff how to work through and deal with issues they are having with themselves, their mate, their children, and their co-workers. Once they begin to understand how we are all wired differently and how we can manage our personality traits in conjunction with communicating with others in their particular style, the campus becomes more inviting.

MYCS for Schools can provide a comprehensive program for all school staff and students to help improve relationships on campus. Students often do not realize that when they have an emotion, it is linked to a natural reaction from an alert in their brain.

Once they learn how their brain works and why they are reacting the way they do, we teach them new ways to train their brain to get out of that unhealthy loop of thought and into a healthy loop. The program is very easy to understand and the students quickly grasp the concepts to begin reframing their thoughts.