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Athlos counselors:
Athlos counselors:
If your student needs help with a personal or academic issue, we are here for them. Our job is to listen to student and parent concerns and do our best to help in whatever way we can. Our goal is to ensure that each and every student reaches their fullest potential in school and life.
One of the things we are excited about doing for the 2019–2020 school year is facilitating small groups for students who need help with things like building better friendships, handling anger, learning better social skills, and managing stress and anxiety. Watch for these groups and let us know if you think your child would benefit from one. Please let us know if there is anything we can do for your student.
– Jennifer Saderholm, Guidance Counselor
– Jessica Winward, Social Worker
Coming soon.
Jessica Winward graduated from the University of Utah with a master’s degree in social work. Prior to working at Athlos, she worked with families, young children, and adolescents who experienced significant trauma and who demonstrated mental health/emotional/social/behavioral issues.
Jessica feels that her best quality as an educator is empathy, the ability to understand and validate another person’s feelings and thoughts.
Favorite Performance Character Trait: Curiosity
“I believe this trait not only facilitates academic learning, but fosters the development of self-awareness, empathy, and change,” Winward said. “We must be curious in order to better understand ourselves, others, and our world. Curiosity helps us to evolve.”
Fun Facts about Jessica Winward
Dear Athlos families,
I wanted to reach out and extend some hands-off support to our students and yourselves as caregivers. With unprecedented changes in our community comes uncertainty, confusion, and sometimes stress and anxiety. While we are all in this together, every child (and adult) will experience things differently and every household will adjust accordingly. Please know that my role remains the same, helping our students feel seen, supported, and secure in that whole child way.
I work in such a face-to-face way with students that it’s challenging for me to figure out how best to be of help without that ability. Here are some ideas I am looking at right now to be of support to your children and you as their caregivers. Please note that I am not presuming that your children and/or yourselves need anything like this from me, but I wanted to put it out there for those who may.
As always I am available to email/call with parents. I can also organize a time to visit with students via Zoom if needed. Email is the best way to coordinate other forms of communication (phone call, Zoom). Our school counselor, Ms. Saderholm and I have set up a web page called “Soothe Center.” This as a place to give parents information about topics of interest for their children/families, e.g. anxiety, sleep problems, social isolation, stress, depression, boredom… all of which can be situational and variable for children.
Again, feel free to reach out to me via email at jwinward@athlosutah.org.
Wishing you all the best,
Jessica Winward
Counseling topics include:
The CrisisLine operated by the University Neuropsychiatric Institute that provides 24/7 crisis counseling over the phone. They also have a mobile crisis outreach team (MCOT) that provides free, prompt, face-to-face crisis intervention.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available 24/7 and is a free and confidential support that provides crisis counseling to individuals in distress as well as prevention and crisis resources for individuals and loved ones.
The TrevorLifeline provides 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.
Crisis Text Line is a free, 24/7 support for those in crisis. Text HOME to 741741 from anywhere in the US to text with a trained crisis counselor.
Salt Lake County Youth Services provides 24/7 free crisis counseling, referrals, and short-term placement for youth ages 8 to 17. Juvenile Receiving Centers are located in South Salt Lake City and West Jordan. Youth may come to the facility on their own or parents may bring youth in for individual/family crisis counseling.
Youth Services Main Facility
Open 24/7 – 177 W Price Avenue (3610 S), South Salt Lake, UT 84115, #385-468-4470
West Jordan Facility
Open Mon-Fri 8am-8pm – 8781 South Redwood Rd. Building #3, West Jordan, UT 84088, #385-468-4610
Free and confidential help and support for victims and survivors of domestic and intimate partner violence is available 24/7.
