NEW PROGRAM!
"It's Time! Teens Supporting Teens" Peer Education Program on Depression
 It's Time! Teens Supporting Teens offers a peer led classroom program which addresses the ingredients required for overcoming teen depression. The program teaches participants how to reduce the stigma that surrounds depression, so that a constructive conversation can open up. Using a unique and compelling video storytelling format, along with interactive games and discussion, the It's Time! peer program offers students, and friends the opportunity to learn how to talk with other teens in trouble and to let them know they are not alone. Participants who complete the program will be able to recognize the signs of depression and know what to do to help a struggling teen find the appropriate treatment and support. More
For more information contact Sue@inhealthwi.org or call 262-238-9455.
InHealth Wisconsin
Health and Life Skills Programs
 It’s Time! Adults Addressing Teen and Youth Depression In-service
Staff In-service- It’s Time! Adults Addressing Youth and Teen Depression
Through this in-service, teachers explore how to have a positive impact on children and teen’s emotional health and learning within professional boundaries. The compelling in-service includes video-stories of diverse youth, informative slides, art, and animation. The teens’ stories provide examples of specific ways that teachers offered effective support in the school environment. The program gives school staff (especially classroom teachers), adults in youth serving organizations, coaches, and others ideas of how to interact with youth and families. Outcomes include: increased identification, support, intervention, and referral skills. More
 It’s Time! Addressing Depression in Latino Cultures
The Latino version of the program is presented
by trained facilitators in Spanish and uses the stories of people
with a heritage from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic,
Spain and Peru to tell the larger story of depression and the
cultural aspects that impact how one recognizes, seeks treatment
and heals. Like the other It’s Time programs the Latino version
is designed to decrease the stigma of depression and increase
our ability to support those touched by depression through information
and open conversation. The programs use the compelling video-stories
of local individuals, informative slides, art, animation, and
engaging facilitators to invite participants to enter into the
lives of those touched by depression and explore our role in
creating a healing environment. More
 Heart of a Woman: From Heartbreak to Healing
This unique approach to heart health explores how
our hearts break and also how they heal and flourish. It weaves
emotional and physical realities together through story, art
and sound. The presenters lead the participants through short
activities that invite each woman to integrate into her personal
life what she has learned in video storytelling segments.
 Stressing Life: Balance Your Life and Manage Stress
This program shows people how to bring together
their physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual and social
lives to gain a healthy sense of control. Participants engage
in a highly individualized program that seeks to help them bring
their lives back into balance.
 It’s Time: Changing the Community Conversation About Depression
InHealth’s program on adult depression takes the stories
of many people from our community and weaves them together to
tell the story of depression in order to help each of us to reduce
the stigma that is a barrier to naming the illness and seeking
treatment. Participants learn to support others as they face
their own or a loved one’s depression. More
 Constructing Health: Add Years to Life - Life to Years
This is a workshop that helps individuals to identify
lifestyle factors affecting the aging process and to understand
how to make successful change for improved health and well-being.
The mind-body connection comes to life as recent research on
aging is integrated into the real life choices participants face.
 The Stages of Change
Explore each step in the process of change toward
health and whole being and what motivates people to change. The
program provides suggestions and support to create a plan for
change for each participant. It also invites the participant
to consider how to best help others through change.
 Living From Within - Finding One’s Voice
This program includes learning to hear one’s
own voice over the constant hum of others, listening for voices
from the past and determining if they apply today, five questions
to consider when searching for our inner voices as well as five
common distractions.
Positively Influencing Youth
This program is geared towards parents, grandparents
and mentors of our young people. Develop strategies for positively
influencing youth and determine the impact that we have already
made. Learn how to think through goals for your children, to
achieve those goals and to talk about the important issues.
Setting the Course: Passages Through Menopause
 Menopause is a passage all women must face, either
in isolation or surrounded by others who have been there. This
program provides insights into the menopausal experience that
are essential to a smooth transition for each woman. Visit Health Havens for more information on this program.
 The Healing Journey: Navigating Breast Cancer
Patient or supporter, no one should have to face
breast cancer alone. Support, guidance and information are key
to intelligent and comfortable choices. This program is a guided
tour for women with cancer, their partners, families, friends
and others who support them.
Communication Strategies
This workshop presents skills for interpersonal
and problem solving communications, including some or all of
the following: interpersonal communications, effective teamwork,
and moving from conflict to shared understanding.
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