Prevention
Our Prevention Specialists provide mental health and substance use prevention education services to link students to the most appropriate community resources. They also collaborate with school principals to identify and structure specific prevention programs for their schools.
The Prevention Program offers a variety of theory-based and evidence-informed programs to serve the specific needs of the school and communities.
Prevention Programs
SOS Signs of Suicide
The SOS Signs of Suicide is an evidence-based prevention program that helps youth identify signs of depression and suicide in themselves or their peers and how to ACT (Acknowledge, Care, Tell). This program increases youth-seeking help for themselves or a friend and demonstrates a 64% reduction in self-reported suicide attempts. To learn more about this program click here: https://www.mindwise.org/sos-signs-of-suicide/
Through our partnership with the 9 Logan and Champaign county school districts, TCN serves over 2,000 students grades 6-12 each year. SOS provides the unique opportunity to connect with students through classroom education sessions, conduct brief mental health screenings, and follow-up with individual youth to identity those that are struggling and in need of appropriate referrals for additional support or treatment.
School-Based Psychoeducation
TCN provides comprehensive and evidence-informed mental health and substance use small groups to identified children and adolescents from Kindergarten to 12th grade. Through coordination with school counselors and social workers, TCN meets with small groups of students during the school day to provide education, activities, and support that meet their identified need. Small groups include, but are not limited to:
Anger Management
Grief Support
Self-Esteem
Social Skills
Executive Functioning
Changing Families
CAST (Coping and Support Training) for Mental Health and Substance Use
TCN also provides psychoeducation through guest speaking opportunities on topics related to mental health and substance use in a classroom or after-school program setting.
Community-Based Training
TCN offers free community-based trainings to educate the community to provide prevention services. Schools, businesses, and other community groups can request specific trainings to meet their needs. To learn more contact us here.
Prevention trainings include:
QPR Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training
QPR is an evidence-based prevention training that helps participants learn how to recognize warning signs of depression or suicide crisis and how to respond. Gatekeepers are not mental health professionals but anyone in a position to recognize warning signs that someone is struggling. Participants learn how to ask questions to assess risk of suicide, persuade help-seeking behaviors, and refer to appropriate resources for help. https://qprinstitute.com/
Mental Health First Aid Training
Helps communities understand mental illness, introduces risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems and their impact. Participants review treatment options, how to assess a mental health crisis, and ways connect people to professional, peer, or social support. It teaches a 5-step action plan to offer initial help to people exhibiting signs and/or symptoms of mental illness. www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org
ASIST
ASIST is a suicide intervention skills training that helps participants become more willing, ready, and able to intervene with someone at risk of suicide. Objectives in this two-day workshop include:
Understand the ways personal and societal attitudes affect views on suicide and interventions
Provide guidance and suicide first-aid to a person at risk in ways that meet their individual safety needs
dentify the key elements of an effective suicide safety plan and the actions required to implement it
Appreciate the value of improving and integrating suicide prevention resources in the community at large
Recognize other important aspects of suicide prevention including life-promotion and self-care
VitalCog: Suicide Prevention in the Workplace
Gives participants the tools and skills to appreciate the critical need for suicide prevention while creating a forum for dialogue and critical thinking about workplace mental health challenges. The program builds a business case for suicide prevention while promoting help-seeking and help-giving. https://www.coloradodepressioncenter.org/vitalcog/
Stewards of Children – Darkness to Light
Adult education to learn how to prevent, recognize, and react to child sexual abuse. https://www.d2l.org/
Safe Zone
Safe Zone training presents an opportunity to learn about LGBTQIA+ identities, gender, and examine assumptions. Creates a deeper familiarity and comfort with vocabulary, inclusive practices, and privilege, and helps identify ways to be a safer and more inclusive environment for the queer community.
https://thesafezoneproject.com/
Combating Burnout
Combating Burnout training aims to educate individuals on recognizing, preventing, and managing burnout in professional settings, emphasizing self-care strategies and stress management techniques to maintain well-being and productivity.
Community Coalitions
TCN participates in a variety of community coalitions that focus on the health and well-being of individuals and communities as a whole. Through strong relationships and collaboration, our community coalitions strive to make a collective impact on better health outcomes.