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Fact of the Month:

Most adolescents experience positive mental health, but one in five has a diagnosable mental health disorder.

Mental Health Conditions Affecting Adolescents

In the United States mental disorders are common among children and can be difficult for both the children and parents to cope with. Mental disorders include Anxiety, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity, Autism, Eating, Mood, Personality, and Schizophrenia. Research has shown that half of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by age 14.

Studies completed by the National Institute of Mental Health have found that there is often delay between onset of a mental illness and initiation of treatment.

Coping with Mental Illness as a Family

Adolescents are not the only group within our district that may be experiencing a mental disorder and it is important for both children and adults to seek help.

Mental health problems may be related to excessive stress due to a particular situation or series of events. As with cancer, diabetes and heart disease, mental illnesses are often physical as well as emotional and psychological. Mental illnesses may be caused by a reaction to environmental stresses, genetic factors, biochemical imbalances, or a combination of these. With proper care and treatment many individuals learn to cope or recover from a mental illness or emotional disorder.

1. Acknowledge that you have a family member with a mental illness and seek help
   from a mental health professional.
2. Learn skills to help manage your stress.
3. Develop new ways of relating to others.
4. Explore other resources.

Warning Signs – Signs of Crisis

Call 9-1-1, or seek immediate help when you hear or see any one of these behaviors:

• Someone threatening to hurt or kill
  themselves.
• Someone looking for ways to kill
  themselves: seeking access to pills,
  weapons, or other means.
• Someone talking or writing about
  suicide, or about death and dying
  when this is out of the ordinary for
  them.

Signs of Concern

If someone you care about is showing any or a combination of the following behaviors, have them call the San Diego Crisis Hotline at (800)479-3339. You could be saving their life!

• Hopelessness
• Rage, anger, seeking revenge
• Acting reckless or engaging in risky
  activities, seemingly without thinking
• Feeling trapped- like there’s no way out
• Increasing alcohol or drug use
• Withdrawing from friends, family or society
• Anxiety, agitation, unable to sleep, or
  sleeping all the time
• Dramatic mood changes
• No reason for living; no sense of purpose in
  life
• Someone close to them has dies by suicide
  in the past
• The person has attempted to kill
  themselves in the past

Helpful Resources:

• https://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/hhsa/programs/bhs
• https://www.namisandiego.org
• https://www.up2sd.org

Sunday, August 28, 2016
9am to 3pm at Bonita Vista High School

• Screening Bonita Vista High School August 28 2016
• Screening Bonita Vista High School August 28 2016 – Spanish

Provided by the Eric Paredes Save A Life Foundation and a medical team led by Scripps cardiologist Dr. John Rogers, MD,
this screening will honor the memory of Cristian Acosta-Flores who passed away on 9.1.14 due to an undetected heart defect.

Dr. Mary L. Lawlor
Coordinator
Phone: (619) 518-3025
Email: lawlormary@aol.com

The Academic Decathlon is a ten-event scholastic competition with nine-member high school teams from throughout the county. This year’s theme is World War II. Students complete seven written tests in the areas of science, literature, art, music, mathematics, economics and social science.

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• Diabetes Parent Letter for Incoming 7th Graders (English)
• Diabetes Parent Letter for Incoming 7th Graders (Spanish)

Enroll. Get Care. Renew.

Health Coverage All Year Long.

Click Here for Health Coverage options and more information.

Mar Vista Academy Community Resource Center – Room 904

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Collaboration with Nestor Community Health Center

Where:
1267 Thermal Avenue
San Diego, CA 92154

August 11, 2015
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Please bring your yellow immunization card

For more information contact SBCS CRC Intake Specialist Milkeisha Hernandez at (619) 628-5990

The Sweetwater Union High School District has partnered with the California Immunization Registry to store student immunization records.  By using this system, immunization records can be easily located by a school nurse when a student changes schools or districts, during disease outbreaks, emergencies and natural disasters.