Student Mental Health Services in Richmond, KY

At Baptist Health Richmond Mobile Healthcare Clinic, we provide behavioral health services for students in the Madison County and Estill County School System. This is a great service because we are able to meet the students where they're at, especially in rural areas. We don't have to worry about them missing appointments or parents not being able to get them somewhere where we can offer them consistent and complete mental health services. We have seen that students need more regulation with their emotions, identifying how they feel, why they feel, and then how the response is to those emotions.

And being able to come to schools and offer this allows students to have that more consistent, confident abilities within themselves to where they learn how to adjust and adapt to any events they may encounter. Students learn skills, learn how to cope with events that go on into their life. They can use these skills to help benefit the community in the workforce and helping out in whatever path they may follow. With the kids on the mobile clinic, I have seen much improvements in their confidence, in their ability to regulate events, especially in school with school work, maybe bullying, maybe any events that go along with school and at home.

And they come in and they're happy to say, Hey, I did this today, or, This happened and this is what I did and I feel really good about it. And see the pride that they have, It's just wonderful to be able to be a part of that and just be a part of that experience.