Emergency & Crisis Support

• Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 / 1-800-799-4889 (TTY)
• Mobile Crisis Response Team: 727-372-4357
• Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741
• Florida Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-500-1119
• Florida Abuse Hotline: 1-800-962-2873

Clothing Assistance

• Farmworkers Self-Help: 352-567-1432
• Neighborhood Care Center: 813-780-6822

Food Assistance

• Meals on Wheels for Kids: 813-344-5837
• Salvation Army East Pasco: 352-521-3126
• Food Stamps: 866-762-2237
• WIC – Dade City: 352-521-1450
• WIC – Zephyrhills: 813-780-0740

Housing & Shelter Assistance

• Sunrise of Pasco DV Shelter: 352-521-3120
• Pasco Housing Authority: 352-567-0848
• Metropolitan Ministries: 727-756-1955
• Restored Hope: 352-437-4815
• Pasco County Social Services: 352-521-5173

Additional Resources

• Bay Area Legal Services: 352-567-9044
• Resource Hotline: 211 or 1-877-828-8929

Meet Our Student Support Team

Mr. Turner : School Counselor

Email: mturner@pasco.k12.fl.us

Mrs. Dienes:  School Social Worker

Serving as School Counselor
Email: aljohnson@pasco.k12.fl.us

Ms. Guevara: School Social Worker

Email: vguevara@pasco.k12.fl.us

Mr. Hammen:  School Psychologist

Email: jhammen@pasco.k12.fl.us

Mrs. Rulison: Graduation Enhancement Coach

Email: kpayne@pasco.k12.fl.us

Mrs. Cottrell:  School Nurse

Email: scottrel@pasco.k12.fl.us

School Counselor

How We Assist

• Assist students with academic, career, and personal/social development.
• Provide students with skills needed to reach their highest potential and achieve college, career, and life readiness.
• Encourage students to plan, monitor, and manage their learning, personal/social development, and career development.
• Facilitate student-centered and student-directed practices.
• Collaborate with parents and teachers to help students develop, analyze, and evaluate educational, occupational, and personal/social plans.
• Conduct threat assessments and suicide assessments.
• Support the Attend and Achieve Initiative.
• Provide counseling referrals.

School Social Work

How We Assist

• Student evaluations
• Social developmental histories
• Functional Behavior Assessments (FBAs)
• Eligibility staffing
• Student observations
• Threat assessments and suicide assessments
• Attendance intervention plans and attendance remediation
• Truancy referrals
• YFA case staffing
• Crisis intervention
• Individual and group counseling
• Mental health referrals
• Community agency referrals
• Housing and homelessness referrals (SIT)
• Holiday assistance
• Financial assistance
• Food assistance
• Clothing and shoe assistance
• Home visits
• ABC Program

School Psychology

How We Assist

• Academic and behavior interventions and support
• Data collection and analysis
• Student progress monitoring
• Research and program evaluation
• Evaluations for Exceptional Student Education (ESE) services
• Instructional support
• Student assessments
• Response to interventions
• Consultations
• Mental health support
• Student mentoring

School Nurse

How We Assist

• Serve as a liaison between school personnel, families, the community, and medical providers.
• Provide community health referrals.
• Perform health screenings.
• Provide direction to clinic assistants, licensed practical nurses, and other trained staff.
• Assist with developing IEPs.
• Support evaluations for Exceptional Student Education services.