Prevention - Workshops

A FREE five-week course for those in the care of children ages 9 - 14 years old to learn about strengthening family bonds, setting clear standards in your family, increasing children's involvement in your family, communication skills, and how you can help your child(red) make good choices.

A FREE seven-week program for parents and youth 10 - 14 years old where participants will learn to build stronger relationships in the family, improve the relationship with your kids, to listen more and yell less, and youth learn skills on how to deal with stress and peer pressure."

*This program is by referral only by Weber Human Services Youth Department*
This is a program designed for youth ages 15-18. Youth meet four weekly one-hour group sessions. On a series of verbal, written and behavioral exercises, the program attempts to create dissonance in participants by engaging them in a critique of the thin ideal. Participants are also engaged in body acceptance exercises and role-play to counter thin-ideal statement and resist peer pressure.

The Blues Program is intended to actively engage high school students ages 15-18 with depressive symptoms or at risk of onset of major depression. The program includes 6 weekly one-hour group sessions of 4-8 teens and home practice assignments. Weekly sessions focus on building group rapport, cognitive restructuring techniques and reinforce the new skills taught in the sessions to apply skills to their daily life.
How it works:
• Six 1-hour small group sessions.
• Learn how to challenge negative thoughts, and talk about different coping strategies.
• Group work empowers teens to support and validate each other.
• Classes teach emotional resilience, and reduce low mood and anxious thoughts.
• It’s simple, and it works.

Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid course, you learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help. Mental Health First Aid teaches about recovery and resiliency – the belief that individuals experiencing these challenges can and do get better, and use their strengths to stay well.