{"id":440636,"date":"2026-08-22T19:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440636\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:14:11","slug":"discovery-church-to-offer-counseling-aug-26-for-students-after-independence-hs-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440636\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Church to offer counseling Aug. 26 for students after Independence HS shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Discovery Church said they are partnering with their Counseling Center to make support and care available on Wednesday, August 26 for any students impacted by the deadly shooting at Independence High School.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after a<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-police-investigate-shooting-reported-at-independence-high-school-friday-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> 17-year-old boy was shot and killed at Independence High School <\/a>during the football game.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-police-investigate-shooting-reported-at-independence-high-school-friday-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">17-year-old boy shot &amp; killed at Independence H.S. during football game in Bakersfield<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday was the first night of many football games for high schools in the Kern County area.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, it said, \u201cIf your student needs a safe place to process, receive support, or simply be around people who care, please don\u2019t hesitate to reach out to our team or bring them Wednesday. We want every student to know they are not alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Discovery Church is located at 7103 White Lane in Bakersfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Discovery Church said they are partnering with their Counseling Center to make support and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-440636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}