Stigma and cost are two main reasons young people don't reach out for the mental health support they might need. Battle Creek siblings Logan Stevens, 17, and Kai Stevens, 15, were inspired to collaborate on an art and writing project that encourages their peers to find the type of therapy that suits them as an impactful form of self-care.
U.S. Supreme Court Decision confirms rights of people with disabilities including those living with autism
Battle Creek Voices of Youth Artist Athena McCarthy focused her artist's lens directly on anxiety, creating digital artwork that personified her feelings. In her accompanying artist statements, she shares about the empowering process. Athena says, "There are ways to help with anxiety and to help those with anxiety, simply by being there for each other."
Voices of Youth Battle Creek participants, Elisha Willis and Cordell Barnes, listen to a lot of podcasts and wanted to try one of their own. They decided to focus on social media and its impact on teen mental health. In this conversational format, Elisha and Cordell, with their mentor Gerald King, touch on negative and positive impacts of social media and how to keep it all real. Listen to the CnE Podcast to get the real scoop on social media and teens today.
The pandemic's long-term shutdowns may be over, we all hope, but there's been some collateral impact among adolescents who were forced into isolation at one of the most social times of their high school lives. Voices of Youth writer Lauren Davis, a senior at Lakeview High School, speaks with peers and experts about these lingering effects and what can be done to help.
Hace aproximadamente 23 años, un grupo de profesionales del área de Kalamazoo inauguró el Centro de Evaluación de Trauma Infantil del Suroeste de Michigan en la Universidad de Western Michigan para evaluar a los niños traumatizados que no solo se ha convertido en el modelo para centros similares en Michigan y Colorado, sino que también ha producido un cambio en el estado. sistema de bienestar infantil y más allá.
As mental-health concerns for youth rise, behavioral health consultants provide onsite counseling services to students in schools across Calhoun County. The social workers there have a high level of expertise and experience in conditions such as stress, anxiety, grief, and depression.
In Marianne Joynt’s new role as mental health initiatives coordinator for the district, she’s able to go wherever support is needed for staff and students and put together plans to meet their needs as best she can.
About 23 years ago a group of Kalamazoo-area professionals launched the Southwest Michigan Child Trauma Assessment Center at Western Michigan University to assess traumatized children that has not only become the model for similar centers across Michigan and in Colorado but also has effected change in the state’s child-welfare system and beyond.
Sara Hendren, the author of “What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World” advocates for the “most creative, joyful approach to making the world accessible.”
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