UnityPoint offering mental health counseling at SCC high school

Counseling services are now being offered closer to home for South Central Calhoun High School students and their families.
UnityPoint Health’s Berryhill Center is bringing a therapist to the school for individual and family appointments, as well as other consultation services, Clinical Supervisor Jennifer Pullen said.
“Not only are we able to provide the service, we’re doing it in a way that doesn’t cause hardship to families,” Pullen said. To get to the Fort Dodge clinic, parents might have to miss a half or full day of work, and students miss that much school. “They really would spend longer on the road (than in an appointment).”
Read more in the March 4 edition.