Self-Care & Resilience Trainings The youth self-care and resilience trainings are designed to provide participants with tips and strategies to manage complex emotions, provide coping skills, identify toxic environments, and maintain a safe mental health space. There are three areas of focus for youth. Self-Care for Youth: Designed to teach youth tools to help them [...]

Grow a Rainbow offers resources and strategies for supporting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning Youth (LGBTQ) youth and families. For the last several years, Mental Health America of Hawaii has helped community groups and schools create “safe spaces” for LGBTQ youth – programs that are welcoming and empowering to these youth. Mental Health America [...]

Schizophrenia Education and Awareness Program (SEA) Mental Health America of Hawaiʻi’s Schizophrenia Education & Advocacy efforts is to implement a three-point program that provides youth (13 – 22 years of age) who have not yet expressed potential risk for schizophrenia through the prodromal schizophrenia stage, absent of schizophrenia symptoms that have not yet had [...]

The Youth Suicide and Bullying Prevention Program, created by Mental Health America of Hawaiʻi in 2008, has trained more than 30,000 youth and adults in the last 15 years. It has three components: Youth Suicide and Bullying Prevention: This evidence informed curriculum aims to increase knowledge and understanding of bullying and suicide, identify risk [...]