Prevention - Workshops

A FREE evidenced based five week program to learn about strengthening family bonds, setting clear standards in your family, increasing children’s involvement in their family, communication skills, and how to help children make good choices. This program is for parents of children ages 9-14.

An evidenced based program developed to help strengthen family relationships in areas such as behavioral, emotional, academic, and social. This is a seven-week program for those in the care of children ages 10-14 years old. Participants will learn new skills and have the opportunity to roleplay strategies with the children to strengthen the family and create a positive atmosphere. -No cost to participate-

The Love and Logic Institute is dedicated to making parenting and teaching fun and rewarding, instead of stressful and chaotic. We provide practical tools and techniques that help adults achieve respectful, healthy relationships with their children (1-5 years old). All of our work is based on a psychologically sound parenting and teaching philosophy called Love and Logic.

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.