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Okat Park and River Forest High School | District 200

Wellness

Huskie Stress Less Packs

Prevention and Wellness Coordinator Ginger Bencola and Assistive Technology Coordinator Lisa Vincent have teamed up to provide teachers with a classroom tool kit to help students develop self-management skills. The packs include a variety of "fidgets," stress balls, and cards with quick tips on clearing your mind focusing, using breathing techniques, and practicing mindfulness and chair yoga.

Wellness Workshops

Each month, we hold all-school wellness days, where team members go into classrooms for a special 35-minute period and complete a lesson on various topics to help improve our students' social-emotional capacity. Activities focus on topics that have included time management skills, the art of feeling calm, and building your own dopamine menu.

Huskie Wellness Newsletter

Our monthly newsletter recaps the topic of the most recent Wellness Workshop and provides practical tips for supporting teens. Parents automatically receive the newsletter.

Stall Street Journal

This monthly newsletter of wellness tips (and corny jokes!) is posted on the inside of bathroom stall doors. 

 

Contact Information

Prevention and Wellness Coordinator
Ginger Bencola
gbencola@oprfhs.org
x3729