Health Services
Contact Information
Kristi Gerling, RN, BSN
Director of Health Education Services
636-584-0157 ext 1320
Fax: 636-584-7659
Leisha Sitzes, LPN
Beaufort Elementary
636-583-7744 ext 2004
Fax: 583-484-4175
Office Hours: 7:15-3:30
Megan Kampmann, RN
Central Elementary
636-583-3152 ext. 2205
Fax: 636-583-8173
Office Hours: 7:45-3:45
Trease Ellison, LPN
Central Elementary
636-583-3152 ext. 2215
Office Hours: 7:15-3:15
Trease Ellison, LPN
Early Childhood Center
636-583-1202 ext. 2215
Fax: 636-583-4464
Office Hours: As needed
Prairie Dell Elementary
636-583-1200 ext. 1315
Fax: 636-583-8517
Office Hours: 7:15-3:15
Kendra Strong, LPN
Union Middle School
636-583-5855 ext. 1506
Fax: 636-583-6153
Office Hours: 7:15-3:15
Kate Mills, RN BSN
Union High School
636-583-2513 ext. 1724
Fax: 636-583-4203
Office Hours: 7:15-3:15
Sherry Gay, Health Aid
Union High School
636-583-2513 ext. 1709
Please contact the School for referrals to these programs:
Crider Health Center 636-583-1800
- Partnership with Families (PWF) Uses a strength based wrap-around approach to serve our students with serious emotional disorders and their families
- School Based Mental Health: Places a school based mental health specialist in our schools to work with students that have mental health or behavioral issues
- School Based Therapy: Places a therapist in our schools to provide individual therapy to the highest need students
National Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse 636-239-7652
- Prevention services: Array of prevention programs available to our students as needed
Preferred Family Healthcare 636-584-8724
- Team of Concern: The team helps assess our schools need for prevention programming and develops and implements the prevention programming for our school. In addition, a Care Coordinator is assigned to our school and works with students identified as high risk of becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol and/or current users of drugs and alcohol
- ARTC: Achieving Recovery Through Creativity (ARTC) is an art therapy program that works with the creativity of high needs students to help them work through their emotional illness
Please contact the agencies directly for the following programs:
ALIVE 636-583-9863
- Children’s Treatment Program: Provides counseling for our students who are identified as being victims (directly or indirectly) of domestic violence
CHADS Coalition (Communities Healing Adolescent Depression and Suicide) 314-952-8274 www.chadscoalition.org
- Crisis Care: Support for families suffering from depression and other mental illnesses
Grace’s Place 636-432-1313
- Crisis Care: Provides 24 hour emergency/respite care to children up to 12 years old for up to 5 days
NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) 636-940-7440 or www.nami.org
- Family Education Programs: Classes provided to families of mentally ill students to educate them about mental illness. Also provided is an upcoming Mental Health First Aid Training Program (call for details)
Lutheran Family Services 1-866-326-5327
- Counseling Services: Provides counseling and therapy services
Catholic Family Services 636-583-1800
- Counseling Services: Provides counseling and therapy services
- Psychiatric Services
- Anger Management groups: for adolescents ages 9-17
- Love & Logic Parenting groups
Behavioral Health Response (BHR) 1-800-811-4760
- 24/7 access to mental health professional and crisis services
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention www.afsp.org
Health Related Board Policies
Forms
Medication Administration at School (Parent Information)
Permission Form to Administer Student Medications
Student Allergy Prevention and Response (Allergy Action Plan)
Student Allergy Prevention and Response (Student Requiring Special Meals)
Student Allergy Prevention and Response (Epinephrine Medication Self-Administration)
Student Allergy Prevention and Response (Epinephrine Student Skills Checklist)