Wellness and Mental Health at KIPP

Mission

KIPP Northern California aims to provide high-quality, client-centered, and culturally responsive mental health services through a tiered support model designed to support students with varying levels of need. KIPP Northern California believes that all students should have access to quality mental health services and as such, all services are free to students and provided regardless of insurance in order to reduce barriers to mental health care, meet students where they are at, and challenge mental health stigma. 

Vision

The long term vision for school-based mental health services at KIPP Nor Cal includes providing education for teachers on creating healing-centered classroom culture, partnering with students and families to address community healing, learning about wellness and mental health topics for all members of the community, and the continued provision of strong clinical services individually and in groups that address topics including trauma, suicidality, identity, and resiliency from a culturally responsive and strengths-based approach.

KIPP Northern California recognizes the role of systemic racism, colonization, and racial trauma in both the mental health and education systems and strives to dismantle oppressive systems and create safe, inclusive, and student-centered learning environments for all students. Read more about equity & inclusion at KIPP.