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Show Crisis hot line for teens will be available beginning February 15 By DONETA GATHERUM FARMINGTON -- Beginning Feb. 15, the Davis School District will implement a student crisis hotline, hot-line, the TEEN LINE (451-TEEN or 451-8336). The telephone line will be open seven nights a week from 6-10 p.m. An answering machine takes messages at all othet times. The purpose of Teen Line is to provide students access to a listening listen-ing and support service aimed at preventing serious problems from occurring. Counselors will monitor each call to provide necessary counseling services. Any student served on the hotline will be re-- unteering in this program. ? One. major objective of Teen Line is to provide a program where young people have an opportunity. ; to serve others. Other reasons to offer this service include giving 1 students opportunities to learn' and practice listening skills, allowing, students to feel needed to help combat negative teen behavior and developing a support service. The. student volunteers learn about., themselves as they serve other kteens. -. . . '...,-r Teen Line is structured to pro-, vide anonymity, availability, netv working, a quality of service and continuity of service. . Volunteer workers will be trained through the Jordan School District or Cedar-Sinai Center for the Study of Young People in Groups. , The training will take a month to complete. ..,:-,' . iV v Once the hotline opens on Feb. 15, the students will not take calls for at least two or three evenings without the direct, monitored on line supervision of a professional counselor. , After ; the break-in , period, prQfe$siqna!,&OTSlors. will, supervise ..the volunteer students carefully, '"'-: ,,' " s Students will meet with counse-, lors and the training team monthly' : once the program is operational to process information and provide feedback to each other. , .ferred to existing Davis District counseling services. The only exceptions ex-ceptions to this policy would be if the situations involve imminent danger to the student calling. Students Stu-dents needing help with school related re-lated issues will be referred to school counselors. Other issues of a more serious nature will be directed to the Davis County Mental Health Department t Teen Line is a pilot program funded fun-ded through a Hi Pathe grant in cooperation co-operation with the University of Utah. It will operate for the remaining remain-ing four months of the 1988-89 school year. The program will be evaluated at the end of the four months. . A team of students from each high school will assist the school : counselors in operating Teen Line. Each high school will work the teen line one evening each week. Davis, Layton, Clearfield and Bountiful High School students will be: vol- |