School-based Mental Health

JFS places therapists in schools throughout the Denver metro area to provide free mental health services to students and their families through the KidSuccess program.

KidSuccess is an innovative program in which trained Jewish Family Service therapists work in Denver-area schools, providing children and adolescents access to quality counseling services. Our unique hands-on approach promotes a positive inclusive school culture for students that fosters achievement, high self-esteem, resiliency, and personal responsibility. We recently expanded to provide more targeted services to parents and guardians of children in Early Childhood Education (ECE) classes as well.

KidSuccess offers culturally sensitive school-based counseling services that help refugee children and adolescents adjust to their new school, culture, and home in the United States. An overarching goal of the program is to support refugee youth through the major life transition of resettlement, so they are better able to focus on and succeed in school. The program serves refugee students at highly impacted Denver metro public schools, utilizing psycho-educational and therapeutic activities and interventions.

School Locations

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Barnum Elementary

College View Elementary

Downtown Denver Expeditionary School

Godsman Elementary

Goldrick Elementary

Gust Elementary

Isabella Bird Community School

McKinley-Thatcher Elementary

McMeen Elementary

Place Bridge Academy (ECE-8)

Samuels Elementary

Traylor Academy

MIDDLE SCHOOLS

Hill Campus of Arts & Sciences

HIGH SCHOOLS

George Washington High

North High School

Northfield High School

Thomas Jefferson High School

PRIVATE SCHOOLS

Denver Academy of Torah (k-12)

Embark Education (6-8)

Thornton

NAVIGATOR SCHOOLS

Place Bridge Academy

Thornton Middle School

Thornton High

ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL/PROGRAM

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