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# Coping Kids: Teaching Coping Skills to Handle Life's Struggles

## Sitemaps
[XML Sitemap](https://copingkids.org/sitemap_index.xml): Includes all crawlable and indexable pages.

## Pages
- [Resources](https://copingkids.org/resources/): Helpful Resources
- [Our Why](https://copingkids.org/our-why-coping-kids-story/): This Is WHY We Started Coping Kids
- [Our Story](https://copingkids.org/about-coping-kids/): Our Story is Robert's Story
- [In The News](https://copingkids.org/in-the-news/): Las Vegas Sun Article
- [Legislative Efforts](https://copingkids.org/mental-health-legislation/): Helping Change happen
- [Peer Support Groups](https://copingkids.org/mental-health-support-groups/): Coping Kids has successfully served our community and improved countless lives. We currently run peer support groups at three separate locations in the Las Vegas area, Nevada Youth Network, Project 150, and the Meadows School.
- [Free Kids Mental Health Workbook](https://copingkids.org/free-kids-mental-health-workbook/): This free kids mental health workbook (available in both English & Spanish) serves as a foundation of how to approach their mental health. Within the workbook, you'll learn vital skills in Emotional Intelligence, Coping Skills, and Social Awareness.
- [Homepage](https://copingkids.org/): Teaching Effective Coping Skills to Deal with Life's Struggles. Coping Kids offers a free Mental Health Workbook for children, written by a peer.
- [Donate to Kids Mental Health](https://copingkids.org/donate-to-kids-mental-health-online/): Our goal is to reach as many children as possible through community outreach, legislative efforts, and simply through organic growth. If you feel our efforts and Mental Health Workbook has made an impact for you, your child, students, or patients, we would be so happy if you could donate to Kids Mental Health online. 
- [Contact Coping Kids](https://copingkids.org/contact-coping-kids/): Your email address will not be shared. Required fields are marked *
- [Our Team](https://copingkids.org/mental-health-volunteers/): Meet Our Team

## Team
- [Dominik Karelus](https://copingkids.org/team/dominik-karelus/): Dominik, originally from Poland, is a managing partner and Vice President of Card Player Media in Las Vegas. Since coming to America in 1984, Dominik has experienced a wide swath of the American socio-economic landscape. realizing that one of the only things kids from all different backgrounds have in common is mental health. The emotional challenges kids face on their journeys to adulthood are often overwhelming, while the resources available to them are limited. Dominik fully supports Rob and his vision to provide easily accessible mental health resources to today’s youth.
- [Peyton Barsel](https://copingkids.org/team/peyton-barsel/): Peyton founded a non-profit, ACE Aware, after writing and presenting a bill in the 2019 Nevada legislature requiring teachers be trained to identify and support students who have experienced trauma. She subsequently researched and co-wrote a 30-minute trauma-informed training video with the Department of Education, which all Nevada public school employees must watch annually. ACE Aware distributes the video nationally and raises awareness about the prevalence of childhood trauma. Peyton is currently studying Education Policy at Columbia University to ensure that every child has the equal opportunity at education they deserve. Peyton and her brother have approached their loss in different ways but both are committed to using their experience to help other kids who have mental health related issues.
- [Erica Kiefer](https://copingkids.org/team/erica-kiefer/): Erica Kiefer established herself as a certified and licensed Recreational Therapist in 2007 after graduating from Brigham Young University in 2006. With her degree in Recreation Management, she has served with at-risk youth over the years both as a professional in residential treatment and volunteering with children who have experienced grief and trauma. Having lost her first child to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Erica uses her personal experiences and career background to support others through challenging life experiences. She loves utilizing games and team-building activities to tackle such heavy emotional topics, with goals to help participants feel supported, safe, and comfortable enough to share their pain with others. Having published a book about her own personal loss (Borrowed Angel), Erica continues to utilize social media and write on the topic of grief, loss, but most importantly, the hope that can be found in healing. She resides in Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband and four children.
- [Robert Barsel](https://copingkids.org/team/robert-barsel/): Rob Barsel is a 17 year old junior in high school whose passion to help children understand mental health began at 5 years old when his father passed away suddenly. His mother immediately enrolled him in a peer support group for grieving children as well as individual therapy. Although he gained a lot from individual therapy, it was being around other children who had experienced a similar trauma in peer support groups where Rob began to heal. He learned about healthy coping skills and the power of understanding his own emotions and sharing them with others.