Dazzling Gals, Dapper Dudes
When it's time for Back-to-School, not all students are given equal opportunity for school shopping and frankly even those whose families could afford the things they want for school clothes, sometime there are items that just seem hard to find.
No more feeling like the options are exhausted for finding what you want in attire, thanks to the Tiger Boutique and Haberdashery. Students can "shop" from merchandise donated for students to wear at no charge." The students who run the store are given instruction on managing inventory, guiding shoppers to the things they are in search of and the students taking the retail skills class learn customer service principles which can prepare them to work at and even manage or own stores of their own if that's how they dream big personally.
There are selections for guys and gals that are great for a wide variety of occasions and at different times of the year, like winter, cold-weather apparel will be more abundant. Formal wear will be made more available around the time of the big dances like Homecoming and Prom.
Feeling good about self-image is important - especially in the teen years. GJHS also has a wellness clinic for when what's gong on inside the students may not align with looking looking their best.
Tiger Wellness Center
Following the pattern set by Marillac Clinics a few years ago with another in-school wellness clinic within SD-51, a new clinic is now in place inside the brand new Grand Junction High School.
The logo for the clinic was designed by the art teachers and represents a partnership between physical and mental wellness and the progress individual students make when their overall health is aligned with educational goals and pursuits.
In recent years the wellness clinic at Central High School has provided on site medical, mental health, and nutritional counseling and many students who wouldn't have sought counseling or treatment soon enough found the convenience of in-school care less intimidating than an ordinary doctor's office visit, resulting in better mental health outcomes in particular.
Catalysts
In recent years there has been an increase in efforts to talk about how self image and mental health, mental health and physical well ness are intertwined. It's no mystery that taking about these things has been considered taboo in the past and also, no mystery, topics like self harm, bullying, isolation, and even - among the hardest to discuss, suicide.
Many studies now indicate that when youth and adults talk frankly with each other and among peers, the hard things become a bit less awkward, the taboo topics become a little less scary and cooperation towards creating community driven outcomes where mutual understanding is pursued, tends to diminish the undesirable outcomes that - left to their own devices - can be disastrous. Teen years are stressful enough without having to worry about being bullied, belittled for any trait misunderstood by others or put down by teachers when a student faces daunting academic challenges and struggles to excel.
Having resources like this and other student wellness services seems to be wise motion for the betterment of individual students and strengthening the student body climate. Just as prevention is often less costly than correction, this kind of proactive approach to wellness is certain to pay dividends in building adults who can thrive and lead into the future.
Self-image is important - especially in teen years. GJHS also has a wellness clinic for when what's gong on inside the students may not align with looking looking their best.