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Violence Prevention
The
Youth Violence Prevention Project was started in our community
to provide and maintain a sustainable, strength-based approach
to preventing violence. This is accomplished through developing
customized, collaborative prevention models that include many
of the following primary elements: assessing pertinent needs;
providing staff development; enhancing school curriculums or youth
programs with social emotional learning (SEL) skills; and using
ongoing feedback to build and maintain a supportive, safe climate
for youth. Services are offered to youth professionals, school
faculty & staff, parents, and of course, youth.
Love
and Logic
Love and Logic is a philosophy founded by Jim Fay and Foster W.
Cline, M.D., and is based on the experience of a combined total
of over 75 years working with and raising kids. It provides simple
and practical techniques to help teachers and parents have less
stress and more fun while raising responsible kids. Love and Logic
offers many useful techniques that teachers and parents can begin
experimenting with immediately. Here are some examples:
* Locking–in
sadness or empathy before delivering consequences
* Setting limits with enforceable statements
* Sharing control through lots of small choices
* Building relationships with the One Sentence Intervention
* Neutralizing arguing with the Brain Dead technique
* The Anticipatory Consequence
Love and
Logic is easy to use, raises responsible kids, and changes lives.
mentalhelp.net
A national web developed and maintained by CMHC Systems, a leading
provider of mental health software which directs one to a variety
of information related to mental health topics.
Procovery
Circle™
What is Procovery? Procovery is a new vision of self-help and
personal empowerment where personal experience, culture, and strengths
are embraced. With the focus on starting where you are and moving
forward rather than looking backward regardless of the level of
health assumed attainable. Procovery support groups are growing
throughout the country – “Just start anywhere” is a key principle
that provides hope and encouragement.
www.mhselfhelp.org
A consumer-run national technical assistance center serving the
mental health consumer movement. It helps connect individuals
to self-help and advocacy resources, and offers expertise to self-
help groups and other peer-run services for mental health consumers.
www.bhrstl.org
A St. Louis based access-crisis line created by COMTREA, BJC Behavioral
Health, Crider Center, and Hopewell Community Mental Health Centers.
The site provides an extensive St. Louis resource list and links
to other helping sites. An excellent section on general information
about mental illness is beneficial to any one with questions.
www.nida.nih.gov
NIDA was established in 1974, and in October 1992 it became part
of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and
Human Services. The Institute is organized into divisions and
offices, each of which plays an important role in programs of
drug abuse research. The site provides the most up to date information
on a variety of drugs including alcohol.
www.pta.org
Parents
can take an active role in lowering their children's risk and
helping them grow up alcohol- and drug-free. To help parents learn
what they can do, the National PTA has created: Common Sense:
Strategies for Raising Alcohol- and Drug-Free Children.
Designed for parents with children who are in elementary school.
Click
the above link to Arnold Chamber of Commerce to learn information
about services available in the area.
www.geocities.com/athenaalumni
Comtrea
Athena Alumni meet the last Monday of each month. The Alumni
meeting is from 6:00-7:00 p.m. The Client/Alumni meeting
is from 7:00-8:30 p.m.
www.join-n.org
Jefferson
Online INformation Network...a Community Information Network (CIN)
for Jefferson County, Missouri.
www.patnc.org
Parents as Teachers Program...a free program offered to all residents
of Missouri who have children under the age of 3.
St.
Louis Area Survivors of Suicide Response Team
SSRT
Mission: Our mission is to reduce the risk of suicide in survivors
of suicide, aid them in coping with their grief, and assist them
in their ability to resume their lives with minimal negative impact
by reaching out and instilling hope through listening, providing
encouragement, sharing experiences, and linking them with available
resources to best survive their loss.
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