APRIL 16 • 2020 | 35

W

ith schools closed 
for the remainder 
of the year due to 
the coronavirus, many students 
are coping with the stressors of 
being home every day, not inter-
acting with fellow classmates or 
teachers and dealing with the 
feelings of isolation. 
Two siblings, Jack and 
Sammy Pollack, were inspired 
by their mom, Nicole, a social 
worker at Beaumont, to recre-
ate the benefits of social work 
through an online forum. Their 
website, Quaranteen Help 

(quaranteenhelp.com), provides 
students of any age with an out-
let and the opportunity to talk 
about their feelings with some-
one their own age. 
Jack, a sophomore at 
Bloomfield Hills High School, 
and his sister Sammy, 13, a 
student at West Hills Middle 
School, launched the website on 
Wednesday, April 1, and have 
been sharing the link with some 
of their mom’
s coworkers and in 
different Facebook groups. 
“Teens can put [in] their 
name and email, which goes 

right to our inbox and allows 
for us to engage directly with 
the student, whether that is 
a phone conversation or just 
through messaging one anoth-
er,
” Sammy said. 
The Pollacks’
 website is open 
to any student, regardless if 
they are in elementary, middle 
or high school. Their goal is 
to allow students to engage in 
conversations with someone 
who is facing the same obstacles 
as them. 

“We think sometimes it’
s 
easier for a teen to talk to a teen 
instead of a teen talking to an 
adult, because teens share the 
same perspective that some-
times an adult just does not 
get,
” Jack said. “Sometimes it’
s 
also just easier to write out our 
feelings.
” 
The siblings have had a 
handful of emails from students 
so far but are hoping for more 
teens to use the tool and are 
looking forward to helping their 
fellow students get through this 
tough time. 
“We want to make a positive 
difference and help as many 
kids as we can stay more con-
nected and have someone to 
reach out to who they know 
will always be there,
” Sammy 
said. 

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