Name: Cydney Klass

Social Justice Group: 2022-2023, Mental Health and Teens (Covid, Access to Mental Health Care/Health Care)

Date of Fieldwork: January 20, 2023

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

On Friday January 20th, 2023, our group had the privilage to do a zoom meeting with Ellen Klety.

Ellen Kelty is the Director of Mental Health and Student Safety. She has also worked as a school psychologist for 23 years. In our interview she talked about why she decided to become a school psychologist, and her experience being one, she also told us about some of the the issues she specializes in.

Something that learned from our conversation with her was how many things school psychologists do, she told us that she works with kids, like in classes, she does suicide prevention work, she does counseling, and things like art therapy, and play board games with the kids to make them feel more comfortable. I also thought it was interesting that she told us that the also told us that the hardest part of her job was the secondary trauma, which is when the work she does starts to affect her.