Sources of Strength
$4,500
Equip students with trusting peer networks that create a mentally healthy atmosphere while also providing suicide, violence, and bullying prevention methods to beset support student well-being.
Benefits
Staff will grow in awareness of strength-based solutions to enhance student resilience. Adult advisors will be able to support peer leaders in their work and influence peer groups to become agents of positive change.
- Promotes mental and emotional well-being among students through comprehensive support and interventions.
- Supports schools in developing and implementing effective crisis prevention and intervention plans.
- Provides a continuum of mental health support services to address various student needs.
- Focuses on building resilience among students to help them cope with challenges effectively.
- Implements evidence-based practices to ensure the effectiveness of interventions and programs.
Goals
Assist your students to reach their mental health goals.
- Receive local support to complete Sources of Strength training certification.
- Flexible implementation of Sources of Strength program.
- Increase awareness of strength-based solutions, leading to positive student well-being and confidence.
Who might benefit from participating?
- Special education/pupil service directors
- All youth-serving staff
Outcomes/Deliverables
Improve Strength-Based Awareness
All staff will have an awareness of and be able to use the foundational tool of the "Sources of Strength Wheel" to engage in strength-based solution-seeking conversations when students are experiencing a challenge
Develop Peer Leaders
Peer leaders will be identified and trained and prepared to lead the work of the Sources of Strength peer group
Strengthen Adult Advisors
Adult Advisors will be empowered to support the peer leaders in their work with the student body as a whole
Positive Cultural Change
Peer leaders are empowered to lead the way in determining what they can do to change the dialogue about mental health and suicide to create a cultural change of behavior, where everyone is accepted and supported
Breaking Stigmas
Peer groups become agents of change for creating awareness and breaking the stigma around depression and other causes of suicide, demonstrating that no one is alone and encouraging others to seek help
Positive Voices
Peer leaders are empowered to use their voices to positively influence their own friends, social groups, and dynamics within
