Resiliency Restored<\/a> program provides mental health support inside three San Antonio clubhouses. <\/p>\nAccording to the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Antonio, they are the only clubhouses in the nation equipped with a full-time clinician and graduate-level mental health interns.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor zero cost to them, which means that they don\u2019t have to miss school, parents don\u2019t have to miss work. Transportation issues are nonexistent,\u201d said Wanda Rivera Sloan, clinical director for the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Antonio.<\/p>\n
Resiliency Restored has been in place for three years and has reached about 3,700 children through social-emotional lessons woven into general programming, Sloan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also have individual sessions, family sessions. We also do small group sessions, so if we see that two to five kiddos are having a really hard time with a certain topic,\u201d Sloan said.<\/p>\n
In the last three years, about 500 children have participated in individual counseling through the program.<\/p>\n
Two of those children taking advantage of the individual therapy sessions are Joanne Camposeco\u2019s 7 and 11-year-old. <\/p>\n
The support has become an important part of her children\u2019s routine, and they get excited every time they have a planned session with their counselor at the Mays Clubhouse. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll come and sign them out, and they\u2019ll be like, \u2018Mom, I have 10 more minutes!\u2019\u201d Camposeco laughed. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018My bad, I\u2019ll wait right here for you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Camposeco said the club has become a trusted part of her family\u2019s support system.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have just become an extension of my village. That\u2019s truly how I feel about them. They are fantastic,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Sloan said the program gives children a place to talk about what they are experiencing at school, online or in their daily lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can talk about bullying, cyberbullying. What does that mean to be safe on the internet?\u201d Sloan said. \u201cThey talk about what\u2019s happening at school or if they got in trouble or things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Camposeco said the counselors and staff often see children after they have had a full school day, giving them a chance to decompress and process what they are feeling.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kids are decompressing away from school, and they get to do that here, after a hard day and process everything that they\u2019ve been through whether it be at school or struggles at home,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s not just school problems these kids open up about with their Boys and Girls Club counselors.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went through a death of my cousin. He was 12 years old so that took a really hard hit on my oldest daughter, and she told me, \u2018I want to talk to Miss Taylor.\u2019 That is the first thing she said,\u201d Camposeco said.<\/p>\n
She said her daughter got a lot of help with that, and her son has improved substantially with other big life transitions.<\/p>\n
Sloan said behavioral issues inside the clubhouses have dropped since the program began.<\/p>\n
In addition to counseling and social-emotional programming, the clubhouses also host family and teen nights focused on mental health.<\/p>\n
Camposeco said she hopes stigma does not stop other parents from asking for help.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are afraid to talk about things, but I think that\u2019s what keeps the trauma going, and we don\u2019t want that to happen,\u201d she said. \u201cWe want our children to be healthy and happy and be able to communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Boys & Girls Clubs charges low membership fees, but officials said children are not turned away if a family cannot pay.<\/p>\n
Families interested in signing a child up for the Resiliency Restored program can visit the program\u2019s website<\/a> and submit a referral by email through the link at the bottom of the page.<\/p>\nRead also:<\/p>\n
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