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For updates about upcoming webinars, join and follow the Collaborative Mentoring Series discussion area on the Mentoring Forums at http://mentoringforums.educationnorthwest.org/forum/26.
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Boys and Girls Clubs of Kawartha Lakes and Taylor Newberry Consulting - How does your community experience “youth mental health”?
1. Q: How does your community
experience “youth mental
health”?
2. Show of Hands!
Q: Approximately how many youth in Canada under the age of
19 experiences a mental health issue serious enough to affect
his or her development and ability to participate fully in day-
to-day life? 1 in 7, 3 in 5, 1 in 40?
A: (1 in 7)
Q: What age is most often associated with the onset of
depressive symptoms? Childhood, Adolescence, or Adulthood?
A: Adolescence
Q: In Ontario, what age group experiences the greatest burden
of mental health and addiction issues? 10-16, 18-24, 25-31?
A: 18-24
3.
4. Why Clubs Are The Perfect
Context (And Awesome)!
• Clubs already have youth coming through the doors!
• Clubs are reaching a wide range of youth with varied
level of risk.
• Clubs are a safe environment where youth already
feel comfortable with staff and with participating in
programs.
5. But most importantly…
• Clubs are experts about youth engagement and are
striving hard to strengthen their capacity to serve
youth.
6. Program Goals
To promote mental health and resiliency among
participating youth by:
Increasing staff comfort around addressing mental
health issues with youth.
Creating awareness and enhancing participants
understanding of mental health
Helping youth develop strategies to cope with
stress, promote healthy relationships and
understand the relationship between thoughts,
feelings, and behaviours.
Help youth translate their understanding of mental
health into positive, anti-stigma attitudes and
actions in their clubs and communities.
12. Other Areas of Wellbeing
Addressed in the Program
• Social Problem Solving and Relationships
13. Other Areas of Wellbeing
Addressed in the Program
• Self-Care and Compassion
14. Other Areas of Wellbeing
Addressed in the Program
• Personal Values
15. Other Areas of Wellbeing
Addressed in the Program
• Stress and Coping
16. • All of this boring stuff is turned into fun stuff!
17. How do we know it’s fun?
• Youth have told us!
• Youth engagement in program design
• Youth engagement in co-facilitation
• Pilot testing
• Evaluation
• Ongoing communication with Clubs
18. Program Structure
• Structured “Enough”
• Not curriculum based, but a flow to the modules.
• Detailed instructions for staff on learning
objectives and activities.
• Instructions on how to effectively lead the
program.
• Flexibility of choosing exercises.
20. A Module at a Glance!
To Centre the Group
1. Making Space
Complete this activity to start the module
Recognizing Feelings and Bodily Expressions
1. Flower-Power
2. Human Scrabble
3. Emotional Symphony
4. Body Cues
5. What's Going On
Activity 4 “Flower-Power” is central to this module
and should be completed. Activities 5-8 are
optional and build on the content of Activity 4. Try
to do at least two of these.
Exploring the Functions of Emotions
1. Function Versus Faux Pas
2. Emotional Pay-Offs
These activities are central to this module and both
should be completed
Develop Personal Support Plans
1. My Social Network
2. Journey to Health and Well-Being
3. My Personal Plan
4. Handling Stormy Weather
Activity 9 “My Social Network” is central to this
module and should be completed. You should also
complete at least one of Activity 10 and Activity 11.
Activity 12 is optional, but a nice way to end this
section.
Feedback and Reflection
1. Moment in the Spot Light
2. My Ideas
Complete both these activities at the end of this
module. See Module 1 for Activity descriptions.
21. Why is it so successful in a club?
What was our experience?
What does this means going forward?
FLEX YOUR HEAD
22. Why is Flex Your Head so successfulat a club?
Maybe Not!
23. Why is Flex Your Head so successfulat a club?
• Designed collaboratively with Clubs
• Staff training
• Evidence based
• Youth engagement
• Clubs are a gateway to youth
• Non clinical setting
• Relationships
“The club is my family. Not sure where or if I would be here without them!”- Sam
24. What was our experience?
Success!
• Amazing
• Activity focused
• Youth engaged
• Not intimidating
• Program flexibility
• Increased knowledge of youth
• Increased knowledge for youth
• Increased support network
Challenges!
• Attendance
• Mood, maturity, interests of youth
25. What does this mean going forward?
As a Boys & Girls Club and Community
Increase youth participation
Increased youth knowledge/support systems
Increase in youth engagement in community
Increase staff knowledge about mental health
Modules as need arises
Programming resource
Community awareness about mental health
Flex Your Head
Continued sessions at Boys & Girls Clubs
Inclusion of guest speakers/ co-facilitators
Increased youth engagement in community/Boys & Girls Clubs
In school sessions
Community engagement
Editor's Notes
To be interactive and get people thinking about mental health and what it means to them.
Quick game to bring the conversation to a more focussed point and to situate the program in context.
Following the activity, you could say: Given how your community experiences mental health and these facts, it shouldn’t be surprising that Clubs have repeatedly and increasingly identified a need for mental health resources and programming.
You know this inside and out.
I thought we should plug this program especially since Denise mentioned it three times during the planning conversation with Helen. This picture links to BGCC’s website where there is more information.
Talk about how the goals are situated in the context of a universal program and how this ties to our understanding of mental health (next slide).
I thought this figure could help to illustrate “normality” and unpack what we mean by universal a little further.
The next slides are very quick introductions to the core theories underpinning the program.
Quick sand metaphor from the program
Talk about how activities are play based and experiential.
I put structure at the end so that it linked with Rob’s content. I thought you could introduce it here by saying:
We think one of the major reasons this program has been successful with youth and in Clubs is because of the way we structured it. The challenge we were given when we began working on this project was to create a program that did not take tremendous expertise to run, that could be used in a drop in afterschool program, and that youth would actually want to do. There are a lot of exercises that already exist, but psychologists seem to be big fans of worksheets, which is not the best way to engage kids, so we made a lot of adaptations to try and make the activities fun.
Given that depression and anxiety are by far the most frequent symptoms that youth report, they became the focus of our program. We didn’t emphasize different mental illness categories because there is such overlap between many disorders(depression and anxiety, substance use, eating disorders). This is consistent with concerns of youth identified at the BGCC youth conference and also fits with the research literature on preventive programs.
All clubs are somewhat different. In order for the program to useful in real world settings, we knew it needed to be flexible which is challenging. We have attempted to design a program that is most effectively run as a series of 12 sessions, but that consists of stand alone pieces that can be pulled out and used in a variety of ways.
We have attempted to provide enough structure that staff can use it without specific in depth training. There are suggested scripts and we have tried to anticipate challenges that may present themselves.
Of course, it is very tricky to have a program that is both very structured and very flexible.
This just simply explains the flow of the program.
This is obvious. The purpose was to highlight how modules are flexible.
Transition to rob so he can talk about how modules played out in his Club and how the program unfolded more broadly.
Can play Kawartha Lakes video to keep things engaging.