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
Housed Working and Healthy