Helping students thrive: Mental health on the move

March 20, 2026
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Baptist Health Behavior Health Mobile Clinic is a place for students to come and express their thoughts emotions and behaviors that they have experienced.

Having the mobile clinic offered to students and starting mental health care at a young age can incorporate the ability to enhance their skills that they have, managing and regulating emotions, building self care as when they get older and they go into maybe stressful situations or have hard times that they have to go through, they have those skills in place that they just build on and can have like these automatic condition behaviors that can help them throughout their life. The Foundation has supported the mobile clinic by offering this van and the ability to travel between schools, offering students a place to come outside of the school where it creates a safe environment for them to express their behaviors and thoughts and emotions whatever they've been going through.

To donors that have supported, thank you. There's not much more I can say but thank you for this because I have seen people and the kids when they come out and they're ready to come out here and they're not scared. They're not like quiet. They come out here and they do talk.

I have not had one student just sit out here.

You know, they love it, so thank you.
Jamie Waddle, LPCC, shares how the Baptist Health Behavioral Health Mobile Clinic gives students a safe, supportive space to express their thoughts and emotions. By starting mental health care early, students build essential skills in self-care and emotional regulation, tools that help them navigate challenges now and in the future. Thanks to donor support, the clinic travels between schools, creating an environment where students feel comfortable opening up and engaging with care.