Students Speak Out About the Changing Environment

I think I speak for most seniors at Central when I say that we're ready for change. After experiencing an unprecedented amount of tragedies, we have a newfound understanding of the necessity of mental health resources. Clearly, Central has a lot of work to do to support their students' mental health, but progress is being made. The persistence of student groups seeking mental health policy reform has...

A lot of the changes that the school is making are currently works-in-progress, so these improvements are probably not visible to the average student population. However, some of our goals include creating a mural from the senior class in the 800s lounge, incorporating more lessons for students on behavior and conflict-resolution, and being more lenient with grades and attendance for those struggling...

I am currently a part of two different groups at central that both discuss mental health (one more than the other) and student wellness. I think talking about student wellness and generating ideas is definitely a step in the right direction. There was a survey sent out to all students, one identical to last year in which we analyzed the feedback and discussed it. Another survey will be going o...

I believe that the school is taking the right steps to improve the wellness of the school but that it could be done a little quicker to hopefully save more students from suffering. I feel that the students are both responding well and also confused. I feel that the students want the help so badly, but I also feel that they are not sure what to do as this is a new initiative that is going to take ...

I think that the school is doing a very good job of persisting in their efforts to better mental health awareness. With the creation of the wellness committee, we have taken great steps towards tracking our progress with student involvement. I think students are more aware of mental health as we open the conversation for it! I want to be involved in mental health because it has impacted me person...