Adolescent Counseling Services Joins Giving Tuesday

Community Corner  |  By Jamie Wilkins (Patch Staff) – November 25, 2016 10:30 am ET Adolescent Counseling Services has launched a campaign to kick off the giving season and think about those suffering from mental health. From Adolescent Counseling Services: Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS) has joined #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving held November 29th […]

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Teen counseling center moves from Palo Alto to Redwood City

By: Kate Bradshaw, The Almanac After getting priced out of its former offices in eastern Palo Alto, Adolescent Counseling Services has found a new home, with a three-year lease, at 643 Bair Island Road in Redwood City, said Aarika Riddle, Adolescent Counseling Services marketing and advancement director. The nonprofit, which provides counseling to youth ages […]

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Outlet Offers LGBTQQ Youth a Place to Be – Nov 6, 2015

by Elena Kadvany / Palo Alto Weekly      Fri, Nov 6, 2015 There’s a rare place in Mountain View where transgender and gender non-conforming teens feel safe to explore, express and be who they are. That place is Outlet, a longtime local program that provides comprehensive services to LGBTQQ youth and adolescents, both directly in […]

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Palo Alto School District Eyes New Gender-Identity Policy – Nov 6, 2015

 by Elena Kadvany / Palo Alto Weekly      Fri, Nov 6, 2015 The Palo Alto school board will discuss next week a new policy aimed at ensuring the protection of the rights of transgender and gender non-conforming students. The proposed policy, titled “Gender Identity and Access,” seeks to “promote the healthy development and safety […]

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Palo Alto Weekly – Around Town – May 29, 2015

Around Town News – May 29, 2015     BRACELETS FOR COUNSELING … Two Palo Alto High School seniors started selling handmade bead bracelets this week to support Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS), a Palo Alto nonprofit that provides on-campus counseling to Paly and Gunn students, student news website the Paly Voice reported. Seniors Claire Chevallier […]

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Why so Few Hospital Beds for Teens? – May 22, 2015

 by Elena Kadvany / Palo Alto Weekly      Fri, May 22, 2015 The absence of adolescent inpatient psychiatric beds in Santa Clara County — described by one Palo Alto child and adolescent psychiatrist as a “hospitalization crisis” — is actually the norm rather than the exception in California. The number of counties without inpatient […]

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