🎧 What School Counselors Do When It Matters Most 💙

About this episode

Kylee Bendorf and Sara Jo Buffington discuss how schools support students during crises and work to prevent them.

In this episode of the West Ada Podcast, Kylee Bendorf, West Ada’s Administrator of Counseling and Student Services, and Sara Jo Buffington, school counselor at Frontier and McMillan Elementary Schools, share insight into how schools support students during moments of crisis—and, just as importantly, how they work to prevent those moments from happening. This episode includes a frank discussion of suicide and self-harm. Parents and caregivers may wish to review the content before listening wi...

People in this episode

Host: Kylee Bendorf

Guest: Sara Jo Buffington

Topics covered

• school counseling
• crisis support
• suicide prevention
• self-harm
• student services

Keywords

• school counselors
• crisis intervention
• mental health
• student support
• education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: West Ada School District

Places: Frontier Elementary School, McMillan Elementary Schools

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