Counseling - Student Wellness Portal
Dealing with Grief & Loss
Tools and resources
Grief doesn’t look the same for everyone—grief, sadness, anger, guilt, fear and disbelief are all normal reactions. We each react differently to tragedies and must respect one another’s feelings and ways of reaction. Remember to accept all the feelings expressed, avoid judgmental or value statements about anyone’s feelings.
General Family Tools
KidsHealth Website and United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Resources
KidsHealth’s award-winning, doctor-reviewed, family-friendly content has been a trusted resource since 1995 by children’s hospitals and schools across the country. Through their websites and partnerships with select organizations, KidsHealth helps hundreds of millions of parents, caregivers, kids, and teens with answers on a wide range of health and family topics.
Jesuit is providing these resources as a practical way to help parents start conversations around racism and Anti-Semitism. Please note that Kidshealth.org is not a Catholic resource though it does provide guidance to help parents talk about race which is in line with Catholic Social Teaching.
In addition, we also have included educational resources from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) which provide suggestions for a Catholic-centered, activity-based approach to talking to children of all ages about combatting racism.
Wellness Resources
Mindfulness, nutrition, sleep
Practice mindfulness, fuel your body with regular nutrition, put yourself to bed to catch deeper sleep, and listen to your body cues around hunger and fullness.
Alateen Group Meetings
What is Alateen?
Alateen is for young people whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking. It provides a safe place for teens to figure out how they may have been affected by the disease of alcoholism and to discover new ways of living. Alateen is a place where members come together in a peer-based group to share experiences, strength, and hope with each other. Alateen is not for teenagers seeking help for their own drinking or drug problems and is not a therapy program.
How to grow grit in times of uncertainty
Building a mental health "tool kit" for teens and their parents. A special webinar curated for Jesuit Sacramento
This webinar was recorded on October 28, 2020, 6pm – 8pm
Times are uncertain – do you have the tools to navigate through? Physically and emotionally it can be tough, but we have tips to help build a mental health “tool kit” for teens and their parents.
Tips to Combat Anxiety during COVID-19
Wellness would like to share a description of the unique anxiety we are facing as a community, as a nation, and as a world. This clear description of an invisible threat helps in understanding how we, too, can focus daily on actively calming our nervous system.