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Provides the following classes, presentations, and workshops: - Anxiety, Stress, and Coping: One-hour class for middle and high school students that talks about what anxiety and stress are and where they come from. Youth will practice coping strategies for stress as well as learn the difference between positive and negative coping strategies. Learn the warning signs of an anxiety disorder and where to go for help. - Breaking Down Barriers to Brain Health: This is a one-hour class for middle school students that discusses mental health, mental illnesses, suicide prevention, and how to break down the barriers people face to getting mental health care. Students will learn the warning signs of mental illness and suicide and what they can do to help themselves or a friend. This class is designed to be interactive and developmentally appropriate for middle school aged students. - Belonging, Why it Matters: Understand why belonging matters, and how it impacts both physical and mental health. Learn the role in fostering the culture of belonging. Understand the warning signs and resources for poor mental health. This class is for employees, supervisors, organizational leaders, owners, board members, and human resource professionals. - Dealing with Difficult Interactions: Learn the signs and symptoms of mental illnesses, along with tips and strategies that can be used in dealing with difficult interactions, to manage the situation and yourself. - Good Mental Health in the Workplace: Five Things You Can Do: Five things individuals can do to create a workplace that values good mental health. Participants will learn how to promote good mental health (including dealing with stress), the common symptoms of a mental illness, how attitudes and language impact people with mental illnesses, and accommodations for a mental illness. This class is for employees, supervisors, organizational leaders, owners, board members, and human resource professionals. - Introduction to Trauma and a Trauma-Informed Approach: One-hour overview of trauma, its impacts on the brain, and the guiding principles of a trauma-informed approach. Trauma has long been described as a unique and personal outcome of adverse events or experiences, but exposure is more widespread in the communities than ever before. For those living with a mental illness or substance use disorder, exposure is even more common. Communities and employers can build awareness and take action to create trauma-informed and responsive spaces where people feel safe and valued. - Minding Your Mental Health (EMPLOYER class only): Understand how and why current events have impacted people's mental health, learn how to manage expectations and stress to navigate changes to the workplace, learn the common symptoms of mental illness, and learn steps employees can take to promote good mental health. - Ending the Silence: This is a 50-minute class intended for high school students. To learn about mental illnesses and the signs and symptoms. Learn a personal story of a young adult who is doing well in recovery. Students receive resources to get help for themselves or for a friend and information on how to end the silence around mental illness in their school. - BACK TO SCHOOL ANXIETY: Learn about the signs that your child might be feeling anxious about going back to school, and what parents and caregivers can do before, during, and after school to help ease their child's back-to-school anxiety. Click here for currently scheduled public classes. - EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF MENTAL ILLNESS IN YOUTH: Workshop designed to help parents, guardians, and foster parents learn early warning signs of mental illnesses and trauma, gain an understanding of the impact of mental Illnesses and trauma on children and youth, and learn strategies to support children who live with an illness. Suicide warning signs and resources are also covered. - HELPING KIDS COPE: Tips for Supporting Good Family Mental Health: One-hour class that talks about the developmental responses youth may have to stress. Discuss five mental health tips for families and resources in the community. Click here for currently scheduled public classes. - MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS PLANNING FOR FAMILIES: Learn the symptoms that can lead to a crisis, steps to take, de-escalation techniques, and the role of county crisis teams. Develop a crisis plan for a child and family. This class is for parents or caregivers of children. - MENTAL ILLNESS AND POST-SECONDARY SUCCESS: Mental Illness and Post-Secondary Success is a two-hour class for parents, post-secondary institutions, students, and others supporting a person who is preparing for or engaged in academic life beyond high school. Learn about available supports, academic strategies, school and community resources, and helpful accommodations and modifications for qualifying students. ADA guidance for students with disabilities is also covered. - TRANSITIONS: Learn how to help teens or young adults access resources to succeed in school, employment, and independent living. Understand the rights young adults gain when they reach 18 and how to help guide them if they are not ready for total independence. This 1.5 hour class is for parents or caregivers of youth or young adults. - TRAUMA REACTIONS AND POST TRAUMATIC GROWTH IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH: 1.5 hour presentation, learn how to identify traumatic experiences in a child's life, understand trauma reactions and foster healing and growth in children and youth who have experienced trauma. - OVERCOMING LONELINESS: Strategies for Helping People with Mental Illnesses: Professionals will learn about the impact of loneliness and how no one goes through a serious illness by themselves. Will also learn the importance of engaging family members, promoting connections to others, and identify strategies to meaningfully engage family members and friends in a person's life. This class is open to all mental health practitioners and professionals.

Clinicians are available to speak to community groups on specific mental health topics when requested

Information, resources, and referral office to help people through difficult times. Staff provide an immediate assessment of emergency needs and offer resources to help deal with homelessness, chemical dependency, domestic abuse, unemployment, gambling addictions, mental health problems, and help with public assistance. Additional services offered at the center include: - 7 bus passes for the general public daily; usually gone by 9:10 am. Can be accessed twice per month and an intake form must be filled out. - Free telephone line, mailboxes for people who are homeless, hygiene items, and household goods - Safe Bay is located in the parking lot and offers individuals and families living in cars and vans a place to rest without fear of crime, harassment, or being moved along by law enforcement or private security guards. Individuals and families can access showers, breakfast and housing navigation services provided by Daminao Center. - Work related transportation: - Gas vouchers: MUST have valid driver's license, proof of insurance, and proof of employment. Can only be accessed once per year. - Bus pass: MUST have ID and proof of employment. The value of a bus pass is $25 and can only be accessed once per year.

Offers community education services to youth, parents, educators, and the public. The Annex provides two options, in person or virtual, for presentations to ensure everyone has access to vital sexual health education. Other topics include: - Birth control methods - Consent - Gender identity and sexual orientation - Healthy relationships and communication - Mental health 101 - Professional development trainings and workshops - Puberty and anatomy - Sexual decision making - Sexual exploitation - Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) prevention, and other presentations

Works to create changes at the legislature to improve the mental health system for children, youth and adults and their families. Weekly legislative update is sent by email (sign up through website), day on the hill, and legislative trainings.

Free, confidential 24 hours/7 days a week referral and information service for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders Provides referrals to local treatment facilities, support groups, and a community-based organization. Callers can also order free publications and other information. Behavioral health treatment services locator for persons seeking treatment facilities in the United States. NOTE: Does not provide counseling services. Specialists will answer calls and transfer calls to state services or other appropriate intake centers in their state.

Provides faith base navigation line to help individuals and families connect with mental health treatment, resources, support, and education. Services are available to people of all faiths.

Provides 24 hours/7 days a week confidential and anonymous support to people in distress or crisis via phone. Support includes crisis mental health intervention, referrals, and support.

Offers age-specific diagnostic and treatment options to address the specialized mental health service needs of older adults. Helps with a wide range of problems including depression, anxiety, changes in sleeping or eating habits, confusion thought disorders, and other issues that cause distress, put a person at risk, or reduce his or her ability to function in the community. Services include: - Comprehensive diagnostic assessment - Psychotherapy (individual, family, and group) - In-home psychotherapy - Educational training and workshops on geriatric mental health issues

Improves health outcomes by coordination of care between physical and mental health care and other service providers for individuals who are not receiving case management services

Provides free workshops for individuals, families, organizations, community groups, and the general public on topics including: - Caregiving consultation and caregiving case plans; also provides personalized workshops for groups and individuals - Caregiving support groups - Caregiving workshops for families experiencing mental illness - Family Caregiving LifeSkills workshops: Designed for spouses/partners, families, and other caregivers of adults with disorders such as mental illness, cognitive/memory issues, dementia, Alzheimer's, stroke, brain injury, and other chronic debilitating health conditions

Clinicians are available to speak to community groups on specific mental health topics when requested

Aging Mastery Program (AMP): Through the National Council on Aging; 8 weeks in study;each week is a different topic (financial, physical, mental health, etc.);review books and video materials in-person; aims to help older adults take key steps to improve their wellbeing, add stability to their lives, and strengthen their ties to communities; professionals visit as speakers to assist with sessions. Dementia Friends-sessions: Provides to community members of all ages. Healthcare specific educational session is available, as well as adaptations for particular workplaces, known as Dementia Friendly in the Workplace. These are one-day sessions that last from 60-80 minutes. Educational session available to community members who have attended a Dementia Friends session, to become Dementia Champions, so that they too, can provide Dementia Friends sessions. This is a one-day session. Powerful Tools for Caregiving (PTC): Educational program designed to help family caregivers take care of themselves while caring for a relative or a friend. Focus is on those caring for someone who is 55 years or older. Six weeks of 1.5 hour workshops. Offered both virtually, and in-person, depending upon the time of registration. Call to register for this workshop. Caregiver Training Workshop: This workshop is approximately 2 hours long. Must pre-register and the workshop is provided in-person. The training walks through a workbook that allows the participant (caregiver) to develop a plan of how to care for their care receiver if something should happen to them and they are no longer able to care for that older adult-either temporarily or definitively. Fraud and Scam Prevention Trainings: Provides presentations relating to fraud and scam prevention to the communities of service-upon request. ?Programs are provided at a variety of locations, including Elder Network offices and others. Some programs are available virtually.

Offers presenters and topics. Speakers are health care professionals. Lifestyle, health and medical topics include: - Back pain prevention - Drug interactions - Emergency care - Fitness - Heart disease prevention and treatment - Mental health concerns - Nutrition - Senior health - Sleep disorders - Stress management - Weight management - Women's health issues - Other topics available

- Staff available for consultation with parents, schools, or other community groups/leaders - Speakers bureau for presentations on topics such as self-esteem, grief and loss, addiction, abuse, anger, stress, parenting, eating disorders, and more

Works one-on-one to assist persons with serious and persistent mental illness in maintaining an independent, high-quality daily life. The community support program includes client outreach, medication monitoring, employment skills, crisis assistance/prevention, and housing and benefits assistance.

Life enrichment and skill-building services, including: ?- Life skills training for individuals and groups - Personal coaching and individualized support, information, advice, and guided self-help, as well as practical tools and techniques for self-development and well-being - Wellness workshops with topics including mental health and caregiver issues

Improves health outcomes by coordination of care between physical and mental health care and other service providers for individuals who are not receiving case management services

Uses theater and performance to catalyze personal and social change through: - Consultation services to support schools and organizations in implementing prevention programs - Sexual abuse prevention education materials - Theatrical presentations on sexual abuse, interpersonal violence, sexual harassment prevention, mental health education, and smoking prevention - Workshops and training for children, adolescents, parents, educators, and professionals

Free family support and information from experienced mental health professionals: - Collaboration with schools and other agencies - Education to the community offered through Friends and Family Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills groups - Workshops and classes??

- After-hours for emergency food. Also, refers to the Housing Resource Line for shelter resources and housing information. - Crisis intervention for mental health crises by phone and face-to-face including psychiatric crisis intervention, outreach services, short-term crisis counseling, emergency psychiatric hospitalization, after-hours adult protection, child endangerment reporting, and after-hours child protection reporting - Diversion from out-of-home placement - Mental health crisis assessment is completed within 90 days or less to find out what option is available to the individual. One option might include case management, as choices may vary depending on the assessment. - Public speaking regarding mental health crisis - Parent-child conflict resolution

Provides free groceries, case management, and community resources ranging from mental health, housing, employment assistance, and legal resources.

Clinicians are available to speak to community groups on specific mental health topics when requested

Clinicians are available to speak to community groups on specific mental health topics when requested

Aging Mastery Program (AMP): Through the National Council on Aging; 8 weeks in study;each week is a different topic (financial, physical, mental health, etc.);review books and video materials in-person; aims to help older adults take key steps to improve their wellbeing, add stability to their lives, and strengthen their ties to communities; professionals visit as speakers to assist with sessions. Dementia Friends-sessions: Provides to community members of all ages. Healthcare specific educational session is available, as well as adaptations for particular workplaces, known as Dementia Friendly in the Workplace. These are one-day sessions that last from 60-80 minutes. Educational session available to community members who have attended a Dementia Friends session, to become Dementia Champions, so that they too, can provide Dementia Friends sessions. This is a one-day session. Powerful Tools for Caregiving (PTC): Educational program designed to help family caregivers take care of themselves while caring for a relative or a friend. Focus is on those caring for someone who is 55 years or older. Six weeks of 1.5 hour workshops. Offered both virtually, and in-person, depending upon the time of registration. Call to register for this workshop. Caregiver Training Workshop: This workshop is approximately 2 hours long. Must pre-register and the workshop is provided in-person. The training walks through a workbook that allows the participant (caregiver) to develop a plan of how to care for their care receiver if something should happen to them and they are no longer able to care for that older adult-either temporarily or definitively. Fraud and Scam Prevention Trainings: Provides presentations relating to fraud and scam prevention to the communities of service-upon request. ?Programs are provided at a variety of locations, including Elder Network offices and others. Some programs are available virtually.