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Feb. 16, 2023
Sources of Strength school-wide mental health promotion program
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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Sources of Strength: Promoting Peer Leaders to Model Well-being
Kathy Magnusson, M.Ed.
Founder of Wildewood Learning Coaching and Consulting Deb Cavitt, MS
Project Director, Prevention Specialist, Advocate and Coach Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health
Sources of Strength is an upstream school-wide mental health promotion program that boosts resilience and builds protection in the lives of young people to become better equipped to navigate life's natural ups and downs. Sources of Strength utilizes Social Network Theory to recruit diverse and influential students known as Peer Leaders to model positive behaviors such as help-seeking and healthy coping. The peer leaders team up with caring, connected, and positive Adult Advisors to instigate a Sources of Strength initiative in their school or community organization through a series of messaging campaigns targeted to increase protective factors and resilience-promoting behaviors in the lives of high school students. Sources of Strength outcomes include an increase in connectedness to adults, an increase in school engagement, an increase in the likelihood to increase positive perceptions of adult support and referring a suicidal friend to an adult. As of 2023, Sources of Strength is being implemented in four school districts (Moundsview, Moorhead, Brainerd, and Duluth) in Minnesota. Learn about how your organization can get people trained in this curriculum and how it fits with other initiatives in school and other settings to create a more comprehensive public health approach to mental health and well-being.
Save the Date
The April SHIP Regional Meetings will be held virtually. More information to come.
- April 11 | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Southeast, Southcentral | Community Specialist - Alice
- April 11 | 1 – 4 p.m. | Metro | Community Specialist – Jenni
- April 13 | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Northwest | Community Specialist - Chelsea
- April 13 | 1-4 p.m. | Northeast, Southwest | Community Specialist - Anna
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