Summer brings joy for many students as they play outside, participate in camps and activities and travel to exciting places. For others, summer can be difficult, as daily interaction with peers, teachers, and counselors is paused. 

Poudre School District values mental health and belonging year-round, and provides information about mental health resources as a community service; making it publicly available does not constitute an endorsement of any business, organization, or resource. 

Please see below for mental health resources. 

Young people have increasingly been experiencing high rates of clinical-level anxiety, even prior to the pandemic. Studies indicate that 11.6% of kids had anxiety in 2012, which was a more than two-fold increase from 2007; during the pandemic, those numbers nearly doubled as 20.5% of youth worldwide now struggle with anxiety symptoms. 

Poudre School District's District Accountability Committee (DAC) is accepting applications from those who would like to serve in the 2023-24 school year. 

Did you know that suicide is preventable and that talking to someone about it won’t cause the act? Or that you can practice having these incredibly difficult but life-saving conversations?