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American Indian Life Skills Development

A school-based, culturally sensitive, suicide-prevention program for American Indian adolescents, also known as Zuni Life Skills Development. Themes this program covers 1) building self-esteem, 2) identifying emotions and stress, 3) increasing communication and problem-solving skills, 4) recognizing and eliminating self-destructive behavior, 5) information on suicide, 6) suicide intervention training, and 7) setting personal and community goals. The curriculum also incorporates three domains of well-being that are specific to tribal groups: 1) helping one another, 2) group belonging, and 3) spiritual belief systems and practices. Lessons are interactive and incorporate situations and experiences relevant to AI/AN adolescent life such as friendship issues, rejection, divorce, separation, unemployment, and problems with health and the law.

Grades
High School (9-12)
Program Components
  • Understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction
  • Understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
Program Outcomes
  • Advocate for reducing stigma associated with emotional and mental and behavioral health
  • Describe how self-harm or suicide impacts other people
  • Explain how to help someone who is thinking about attempting suicide
  • Identify school and community resources that can help a person with emotional, mental and behavioral health concerns

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Creative Coping

Grades
Elementary (K-5)
Settings
Classroom
Program Components
  • Understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
  • Understanding common mental health disorders, signs and symptoms, and treatments
  • Understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction

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DBT Skills in Schools

Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A). Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills have been demonstrated to be effective in helping adolescents manage difficult emotional situations, cope with stress, and make better decisions. From leading experts in DBT and school-based interventions, this unique manual offers the first nonclinical application of DBT skills. The book presents an innovative social-emotional learning curriculum designed to be taught by general education teachers or other school personnel in grades 6-12. Explicit instructions for teaching the skills—mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness—are provided in 30 lesson plans, complete with numerous reproducibles: 99 handouts, a diary card, and three student tests.

Settings
Classroom
Program Components
  • Understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
  • Understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction
Program Outcomes
  • Advocate for reducing stigma associated with emotional and mental and behavioral health
  • Compare & contrast emotional, mental-behavioral illness, mental well-being and concurrent disorders

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Erika’s lighthouse: Depression Awareness

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8)
Settings
Classroom
Program Components
  • Understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction
  • Understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
  • Understanding common mental health disorders, signs and symptoms, and treatments

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Erika’s lighthouse: Depression Education & Suicide Awareness

Grades
High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom
Program Components
  • Understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction
  • Understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
  • Understanding common mental health disorders, signs and symptoms, and treatments

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Erika’s lighthouse: We All Have Mental Health

Grades
Elementary (K-5)
Settings
Classroom
Program Components
  • Understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction
  • Understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
Program Outcomes
  • Advocate for reducing stigma associated with emotional and mental and behavioral health
  • Compare & contrast emotional, mental-behavioral illness, mental well-being and concurrent disorders
  • Identify school and community resources that can help a person with emotional, mental and behavioral health concerns

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Mental Health Essentials Student Curriculum

This course has been designed for educators working with students in grades 7 to 12.

This is a non-credit, online curriculum that consists of 6 modules designed to be taught sequentially in 6-12 hours of classroom time. Modules include all course materials including learning objectives, lesson plans and all materials needed to deliver the curriculum in perpetuity. All student-facing materials are also translated into Spanish and Portuguese. Also includes one year of data collection and analysis via Osprey Research Group (pre/post surveys). After analysis, lifetime access to curriculum updates and quarterly Community of Practice Meeting access.

Learn more about this course, including program background and learning objectives, at Mental Health Collaborative.

Mental health literacy is the foundation for mental health promotion, prevention, and care and can be developed through classroom based curriculum implementation that has been scientifically shown to improve mental health related outcomes for students and also for their teachers. Curriculum aligns with National Health Education Standards and CASEL competencies.

In this course, educators will learn how to apply this classroom-ready, web-based, modular mental health curriculum resource as well as develop their own mental health literacy. Educators can then use this resource designed to be delivered to regular classrooms to successfully address mental health-related curriculum outcomes designed to be delivered by classroom teachers to students in grades 7 to 12.

Grades
Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom
Program Components
  • Understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction
  • Understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
  • Understanding common mental health disorders, signs and symptoms, and treatments
Program Outcomes
  • Advocate for reducing stigma associated with emotional and mental and behavioral health
  • Compare & contrast emotional, mental-behavioral illness, mental well-being and concurrent disorders
  • Explain how to help someone who is thinking about attempting suicide
  • Identify school and community resources that can help a person with emotional, mental and behavioral health concerns

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NAMI Ending the Silence

NAMI Ending the Silence is an engaging, educational presentation given by presenters with mental health lived experiences, that helps audience members learn about the warning signs of mental health conditions and what steps to take if a student or loved one begins showing symptoms of a mental health condition.

Grades
Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Program Components
  • Understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction
  • Understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
  • Understanding common mental health disorders, signs and symptoms, and treatments
Program Outcomes
  • Advocate for reducing stigma associated with emotional and mental and behavioral health
  • Explain how to help someone who is thinking about attempting suicide
  • Identify school and community resources that can help a person with emotional, mental and behavioral health concerns

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NAMI In Our Own Voice

NAMI Ending the Silence is an engaging presentation that helps audience members learn about the warning signs of mental health conditions and what steps to take if you or a loved one are showing symptoms of a mental health condition.

Grades
Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Program Components
  • Understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
  • Understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction
Program Outcomes
  • Compare & contrast emotional, mental-behavioral illness, mental well-being and concurrent disorders
  • Describe how self-harm or suicide impacts other people
  • Identify school and community resources that can help a person with emotional, mental and behavioral health concerns

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Pathways to Empower; Brain-Based Mental Health Literacy

Pathways to Empower offers comprehensive brain-based mental health literacy resources for elementary, middle school, high school, and college communities. Includes:

Elementary School Teacher Grade-Level Sequential Lesson Plans and Student Workbooks.

Middle School, High School, and College-level student workbooks that include four core modules.

Educator Professional Learning Fostering Wellness in Children & Teens (family learning)

COMING SOON: A Pathways to Empower YouTube channel with animated musical content for preschool-aged children and their families

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Program Components
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
  • Understanding common mental health disorders, signs and symptoms, and treatments
  • Understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction
  • Understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health
Program Outcomes
  • Advocate for reducing stigma associated with emotional and mental and behavioral health
  • Describe how self-harm or suicide impacts other people
  • Describe laws related to minors accessing mental health care
  • Explain how to help someone who is thinking about attempting suicide
  • Identify school and community resources that can help a person with emotional, mental and behavioral health concerns

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