1. GOOD SHEPHERD YOUTH SERVICES COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM
Skills for Life
Christine Evans & Chloe Frisina
Mental Health Clinicians,
Good Shepherd Youth Services
Good Shepherd Faith in People

2. OBJECTIVES Explain the Community Mental Health Program
Discuss current literature addressing street involvement, mental health & global functioning
Introduce the Skills for Life program

3. COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM BACKGROUND
MCYS funded
Started 7 years ago
Has grown with the growth of SYPC
1.6 Master’s prepared clinicians
Based at Notre Dame House

4. COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM PURPOSE
A community based mental health outreach program for street involved and homeless youth ages 16-21
Aims to improve access to mental health services
Aims to increase percentage of youth in active treatment
Aims to improve global functioning of youth

5. COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM WHAT WE OFFER
Triage and Assessment
Comprehensive Mental Health Assessment (including a Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths Assessment)
Individual Therapy
Staff Education/Coaching
Skills for Life
Collaboration with the Shelter Health Network and Consulting Adolescent Psychiatrists

6. COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM EVALUATION – STREET INVOLVEMENT
Street involved youth includes runaways (youth who have spent more than one night away from home without parental permission), throwaways (youth who have been forced to leave home by their parents), street youth (youth who live in high risk nontraditional locations such as under bridges and in abandoned buildings) and system youth (youth who have previously been involved in government systems such as foster care or juvenile justice).
Edidin et al. 2011

7. COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM EVALUATION – MENTAL HEALTH
Mental illness refers to clinically significant patterns of behavioral or emotional functioning that are associated with some level of distress, suffering (pain, death) or impairment in one or more areas of functioning (such as school, work or social and family interactions).
Canadian Psychological Association, 2012

8. COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM EVALUATION – GLOBAL FUNCTIONING
Global functioning refers to the adequacy of a youth’s sleep and eating patterns, their physical health and participation in activities of daily living, limited criminal involvement, substance use, high-risk behaviors and a reduction in mental health problems.

9. COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM FRAMEWORK
Mindfulness
The 3 C’s
Calm
Consistent
Clutter Free

10. COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM FRAMEWORK
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

11. Skills For Life

12. Teen Routine
PLEASE
Sleep Hygiene
Distractions
Self Soothing
TIP
3 Things
Radical Acceptance
Ride the Way
Behavior Chain Analysis
Pros & Cons
DEARMAN
Building Positivity

13. Good Shepherd Youth Services Mental Health
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