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Mental Health Essentials: Foundations for Teens

In this seminar, middle & high school students will learn to:

  • Develop an understanding of mental health and mental illnesses
  • Examine stigma and its impact on seeking help
  • Identify when, where, and how to access professional support
  • Strengthen skills for maintaining their own mental health and supporting peers
Grades
Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Schoolwide Community
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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Merrells’s Strong Kids

Merrell’s Strong Kids provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades K-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness in grades 1-6. Translated materials for Merrell’s Strong Kids are available in Korean.

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home
Program Outcomes
  • Reduced Emotional Distress

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Michigan Model for Health: Elementary

Michigan Model for Health: Elementary, offered by the Michigan Department for Health and Human Services, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades K-5 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 4-5. Programming for grades 6-8 are available through its companion program, Michigan Model for Health: Middle School.

Grades
Elementary (K-5)
Settings
Classroom Home
Program Outcomes
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior
  • Improved SEL Skills and Attitudes
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

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Michigan Model for Health: Middle School

Michigan Model for Health: Middle School, offered by the Michigan Department for Health and Human Services, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades 6-8 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 6 and 7. Programming for grades K-5 are available through its companion program, Michigan Model for Health: Elementary School.

Grades
Middle (6-8)
Settings
Classroom Home
Program Outcomes
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

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Mindful Practices & Class Catalyst: An Integrated SEL Approach

Mindful Practices & Class Catalyst: An Integrated SEL Approach, offered by Mindful Practices LLC, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades Pre-K-12 and demonstrated evidence of effectiveness at grades Pre-K-2. Translations of all materials are available in Spanish.

Grades
Pre-K Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Improved School Connectedness
  • Improved SEL Skills and Attitudes

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MindUp

MindUp, offered by the Goldie Hawn Foundation, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades Pre-K-8 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 4-7. Translated materials for MindUP are available in Spanish.

Grades
Pre-K Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Community
Program Outcomes
  • Improved Identity Development/ Agency
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior
  • Improved SEL Skills and Attitudes
  • Reduced Emotional Distress

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Mosaic

Mosaic, offered by ACT SEL, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades 6-8 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 6-8. Translated materials are available in Spanish and Arabic.

Grades
Middle (6-8)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home
Program Outcomes
  • Improved SEL Skills and Attitudes

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Move This World

The Move this World curriculum provides a lesson-based, movement oriented approach to SEL and offers programming for grades Pre-K-12. A CASEL-approved evaluation demonstrates evidence of effectiveness in grades K-3. In this video-based curriculum the Move This World “hosts” lead lessons with pauses for educators to facilitate in-person discussion. A selection of foundational video content is translated into Spanish.

Grades
Pre-K Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home
Program Outcomes
  • Improved Academic Performance

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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 stigma and strategies for stigma reduction
  • Understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
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
  • Improved SEL Skills and Attitudes

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