Programs Supporting Student Mental Health & Prevention

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                              Sources Of Strength

A schoolwide program led by peers to promote mental health and prevent negative outcomes like suicide, violence, bullying, and substance misuse.  

  • Sources of Strength is a program that helps prevent suicide by building positive supports and reducing vulnerability.  
  • The program trains students as peer leaders and connects them with adult advisors at school and in the community.  
  • Advisors help peer leaders with messaging activities to change peer group norms, by improving coping practices and problem behaviors like self-harm and drug use.  
  • The program focuses on strengths and encourages eight protective factors that improve mental health and lower suicide risk.  
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       Up to Me: Talking about my mental health

This stigma reducing, manualized curriculum that helps students decide if and how to share about mental health and other challenges.  

  • Tier 2 High School and Middle School (SEL) Curriculum. This stigma reduction program is offered as facilitator training for educators. 
  • It is a manualized curriculum that helps students make choices about whether and how to share about mental health and other challenges.  
  • Students learn how to identify negative self-talk in their stories about life challenges and mental health and how to create more positive self-narratives. Additionally, they learn how to make strategic decisions about what to disclose to whom. 
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DBT Skills Training For Emotional Problem Solving For Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A)

DBT STEPS-A is a Tier 1, universal social emotional learning (SEL) curriculum focused on developing mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills for middle and high school students  

  • DBT in Schools has adapted the proven skill set in DBT Therapy into a universal curriculum, so that every teen can build their own toolbox filled with these necessary and sometimes life-changing skills 
  • This 30-lesson plan curriculum is helps youth find a balance between accepting themselves and making changes to help them reach their goals. It does this by teaching them mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal skills.