| SOMETIMES
young people face challenging issues. |
- Violence
- Grief and loss
- Divorce and family problems
- Depression and suicide
- Lack of self-esteem
- Cultural conflicts
- Relationship problems
- Drugs, tobacco and alcohol abuse
- Homelessness
- Cult and gang involvement
- Child Abuse
- Eating disorders and other Health issues
- Conflicts leading to violence
- HIV/Sexually transmitted infections
- Teen pregnancy
- Victims of Crime
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HOW
STUDENTS CAN GET HELP |
| HIGH-RISK
INDICATORS |
LOOK FOR SEVERAL OF THESE
- Academic Problems
- Skipping school or suspended from school
- Hyperactive, erractic or nervouse behavior, mood swings
- Sadness, dression or withdrawal
- Home or legal problems or changes in friends
- Lack of concnetration or motivation
- Disruptive, defiant, violent behavior
- Sleepy, disoriented, stumbling
- Slurred speech, red eys or dilated pupils
- Eating disordeR
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| SERVICES
PROVIDED |
SAFE Team Intervention: School-based
SAFE teams assisting studnts and their families with their high-risk problems.
Support Groups: Young people learning to cope with
similar problems.
Rapid Response: Support for child victims or witnesses
of crime, with specific focus on child abuse, sexual abuse and domestic
violence.
Peer Mediation: Trained students helping peers in conflict find
positive solutios.
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HOW TO GET HELP
To receive help from the SAFE
Coordinator, contact Mrs. Huder or Mr. Mauer. If you can not contact these
perople, please speak wiht an administrator, dean, counselor, teacher,
or secretary at your school.
Referrals to SAFE usually arrive by:
- Parents referring their children
- Other students referring their friends
- Studnets referring themselves
- Teachers and other school staff members referring a student
For LIFE
THREATENING issues,
call 911
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EMERGENCY NUMBERS
Child Abuse (Florida)
1-800-962-2873
Community Mental Health and Crisis Facility (Lakeside
Alternative Center)
407-875-3700
Drug and Alcohol Problems
Alcoholic Anonymous
407-521-0012
Al-Anon and Alateen
(Family and Friend of Alcoholics)
Orange County 407-896-4929
Lake and West Volusia
1-800292-6489
Seminole County 407-425-5157
HIV/AIDS
Centaur
407-849-1452
Hospitals
Florida Hospital Center for Psychiatry 407-897-1800
University Behavioral Center
407-282-3000
Out-of-control/Runaway/Throwaway Youth
Great Oaks Youth Shelter
407-836-7626
Pregnacy Issues (B.E.T.A.)
407-277-1942
Sexual Assault
Arnold Palmer Sexaula Trauma Recovery Center (Children and Adults) 407-246-8007
Suicide and Crisis INtervention Hotlines
We Care 407-425-2624
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