1N5
3975 Erie Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45208
Building Resiliency in Youth
Based on a school's needs, culture and environment, a customized mental health plan is created using 1N5's program bank: a well-researched and curated list of evidence-based mental health education and suicide prevention programs proven to be both safe and effective for youth. This offers the necessary flexibility to meet each school's unique needs. The organization works with 110 area schools, including teachers, caregivers, and 150K students (K-12), and six local universities.
Program goals:
• To create and implement customized, evidence-based mental health programming plans in partner schools
• To equip schools with the necessary tools to implement a progression of mental health programming and suicide prevention
• To increase knowledge of signs and symptoms of mental illness and suicide in youth and school staff
• Individuals will know what to do and feel confident they would take action to help self or someone in mental health crisis
• To decrease the stigma of mental illness/suicide in youth and school staff
• To link youth at risk to necessary mental health treatment with the appropriate agency partner
• To improve students' ability to cope with and receive help for mental, emotional, and social stressors that may contribute to mental distress.
• To increase the local schools we serve by 14%, going from 110 to 125 schools by the end of 2023.
Actual results:
At the time of this grant we planned to add 15 new schools to the BRiY program and ended up adding 40 new school partners. We estimate that funding from this grant helped increase universal knowledge of the signs and symptoms of mental illness and suicide for approximately 220,000 students at 150 regional K-12 schools. Not included in these numbers are the educators, school administrators and staff, and parents/caregivers of the students we serve who were also impacted by our programming.
We are thrilled with the impact our growth enabled us this past year. Outcomes are measured through pre/post climate surveys, feedback provided by participants, and monitoring by school administrators. Measurements include knowledge change, stigma levels, awareness, and prosocial helping behaviors pre/post programming.
Results experienced by educators, school staff, and caregivers after QPR training:
Increased knowledge about mental health: After training, 95% of responders had a High or Somewhat High level of understanding, compared to 42% prior.
Know how to help someone in a mental health crisis: After training, 85% of responders felt strongly they would intervene, compared to 44% prior.
Increased knowledge of resources to help with suicide ideation: After training, 92% of responders had a High or Somewhat High level of understanding, compared to 35% prior.
At the start of the grant term we served Hamilton, Clermont, Warren, and Butler counties in Ohio, and Kenton, Campbell and Boone counties in Kentucky. Over the course of this year the Building Resiliency in Youth program has expanded into Montgomery, Highland, and Ross counties in Ohio and Pendleton county in Kentucky.
Program staff have conducted 399 training sessions to date in 2023, compared to 250 in 2022, a 63% increase. Already scheduled in 2024 are 66 training sessions.
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http://www.1N5.org Amount: $40,000
Date: January 2023
