All young people face significant stress in their life’s. Some changes are a part of normal growing up for example growth and hormonal changes, as well as changes in relationships that young people experience with parents and society. The present discusses the role school has to play in promoting healthy emotional development of children. Counselors and other professionals working in schools are well positioned to serve as student advocates family advisors and community partners in supporting wellbeing of children. In many geographic regions, families and schools are the strongest institutions in the child’s life. With rapid urbanization, single parent families, geographic mobility, easy access to potential life threatening mechanisms, substances, activities have weakened the family and cultural structures which were once a strong support to the young once. Schools have now become a central position in the life of young children in their development. Therefore schools have the utmost responsibility in the mental health of the children. As the nation is moving forward to universalization of education, schools should expand their roles providing physical and mental health services.