Understanding Depression and Anxiety to Promote Wellness in System Involved Youth

Michele and Tory Ponsford

Training Description

Understanding depression and anxiety is a key element in promoting wellbeing in System Involved Youth. The emotional health and wellbeing in System Involved Youth can be compromised and disrupted due to the extenuating life circumstances and experiences they endure.  This manifests for many System Involved Youth who face challenges with mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, anger and other illnesses.

This course lays an educational foundation for understanding emotional health as well as techniques, tools and skills to develop an internal process for coping with emotional experiences such as depression, anxiety and anger.  Training Participants will learn a simple Skills Based System to support System Involved Youth in their emotional health as well as techniques to develop an internal processing system to cope with emotional challenges.

Learning a basic education through awareness of what our emotional experience is and the intelligence we can achieve…