The Crisis Clinic of Thurston and Mason Counties provides free help any day or night by text or phone:
Text HELP to 741741
Call 360-586-2777
Welcome to the Olympic View Counseling Office!
Our Olympic View school counselor and mental health specialist are here to help! We can:
Assist students with social, emotional, behavioral, and academic needs.
Coordinate 504 Plan accommodations.
Provide individual solution-focused counseling and small group counseling.
Teach coping skills, self-regulation strategies, and some social-emotional learning lessons.
Support families with district and community resources for basic needs, mental health, and parenting education.
Please reach out if you have any questions for us!
Kelso's Choices
Kelso's Choices is a curriculum which helps children solve problems and manage conflict.
Conflict or disagreement is normal and often happens when children get together. However, hurtful words, gestures, or physical aggression are unacceptable ways to deal with conflict and disagreement at school.
Our goal is to teach students several positive ways to deal with these difficult situations. To do this, we ask students who have minor problems to try at least two of the following ideas (also seen on the wheel below):
Go to another game or activity
Share and take turns
Respectfully talk it over and listen to each other
Walk away from the problem
Ignore the problem behavior
Tell the person to stop
Apologize
Make a deal or compromise
Wait and cool off
If students have tried at least two, they are encouraged to ask an adult for help. Through practice, children learn important social skills which they will use for a lifetime.
If students have a problem which involves their physical safety; if they feel frightened, threatened, or unsafe, they should tell a trusted adult immediately.
All students are protected under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. This is a civil rights statute that prohibits discrimination against students with disabilities.
This is a different program from Special Education. Students qualifying for Special Education services are automatically covered under Section 504.
Section 504 protects any student who has a mental or physical impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities including walking, seeing, hearing, breathing, and learning.
Mental impairments include, for example, ADHD or depression. Physical impairments include asthma, cystic fibrosis, diabetes mellitus, and other chronic illnesses that may impact the student's ability to carry out major life functions.
Parents and students are always part of the planning process once a student has been evaluated as being eligible for a Section 504 plan.
Your school's counselor is the case manager for all students on Section 504 plans. If you have a concern about your student's possible eligibility for Section 504, or about accommodations presently being provided under a Section 504 plan, please contact them or your building principal directly.
As parents and caregivers, our children may come home with a problem from time to time. It may involve friendships, bullying, school work or a conflict with someone that is causing them stress. Finding a way to talk to our children can be tricky, but sometimes phrasing questions and comments in a non-threatening way can help kids open up. The following questions may help your child begin talking in a way that will promote sharing openly.
What happened?
What happened next?
How were you feeling? How do you think (student name) was feeling?
Is there anything else that you can do?
Will that work for everyone?
What do you need to do now?
What would you like to see happen?
How are you feeling right now?
Listen to your child as they express all concerned, fearful, angry, and upset feelings. Reiterate your support and help them focus on processing their feelings. Be on the lookout for physical symptoms of anxiety that children may demonstrate. They may be a sign that they are troubled by recent events. Talk more directly to them if they exhibit these signs more frequently than usual. Contact their counselor, family doctor, community mental health professions, or the 24-hour crisis line for more support.
The virtual calming space is a place for students and families to find tools and strategies for managing emotions and feelings. Mindfulness, music, movement, puzzles and games, and more.
