Rough Flowchart: Youth Mental Health Support Program

Flowchart nodes

• Peer Support Group

• Peer-supporter shares their experience with mental illness OR peer supporter shares an experience of taking care of a loved one with mental illness

• Check-in and de-brief on healing activity that group will do today

• Desensitization encourages open discussion on sensitive topics

• Share what helps them get in a better heaspace

• Group tries the healing activity that was previously mentioned

• Finish off with something fun that engages group interaction

• Strengthens mentor-mentee and mentee-mentee relationships.

• By being more open about mental illness, adolescents struggling with mental illness who look up to us will grow more comfortable with themselves.

• Empowers student to explore various ways to  combat mental illness and determine what works for them

• Psychological Impact on Individuals in Group

• Social Impact on Group

• Attendance Remains High through   Optimism of  the Individual and Overall Group

• Session 1

• Session 2-8

• The hope here is that the individual recognizes that he is capable of being happy and enjoying life :)

• 1. Student enrolls in membership to an 'app'

• Kinesthetic Learning

• Auditory Learning

• Use the feedback form to  ensure that the mentors and mentees are still connected even after the program is over.

• Having mentors who have gone through the program and can bolster the effectiveness of this program will improve the confidence and thus success of the program.

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• Activity that allows student to vent about their problems (mimic the Thoughts Room)

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• After (successful) sessions

• Mindfulness break to wrap it up

• 2. Each student participates in one session  with peer supporter 

• Create weekly feedback forms that 1) keep track of the success of the program, and 2) determine whether mentees need to be moved around.

• Overview of their problems and goals

• Go do something casual with them later!

•  5 minute meditation

• Primes the mind.

• Short meditation break (~5 minutes)

• Re-primes the mind 

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• Suggest to mentees that if they found he program helpful that they consider becoming a mentor once they get into university or college.