Mental Health Promotion and Education

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Job Corps centers have a unique opportunity to promote mental health and provide students with mental health-related education. Centers provide mental health promotion to students during the Career Preparation Period, and the Career Development, and Transition periods.

Forms & Documents

General

2025 MH-Related National Observances New

Mental Health Promotion

Health Education Curriculum
HE Curriculum: Emotional and Social Well Being: Psychoeducational Group Activities — Updated April 2024
CPP Lesson Plan: Introduction to the Mental Health and Wellness Program — Updated March 2024
CPP PowerPoint: Introduction to the Mental Health and Wellness Program — September 2022
New Hire Orientation on Student Mental Health Services and Referrals: Brief Introduction from the CMHC

Brochures and Handouts

Be a Friend — Student brochure (Adobe PDF; requires double-sided printing)
Cope UP! — Positive Coping Card for Students — November 2022
Sleep . . . Are you getting Enough? brochure
Staying on Top of Stress brochure
Ho Ho Uh Oh! How to Cope with the Holiday Blues
Joseph Grillo, Ph.D., Center Mental Health Consultant, Long Beach JCC

Web Resources

Printed Materials

Remember there are many free resources available to get printed materials either to give to students during an event or have available on center. Check out a few below:

SAMHSA — SAMHSA has downloadable and printable content including wallet cards, magnets, stickers, comic books, brochures related to mental health and the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) — NIMH offers brochures and fact sheets on mental health disorders and related topics for patients and their families, health professionals, and the public. Printed materials can be ordered free of charge. Brochures and fact sheets are also offered in digital formats and are available in English and Spanish.

TIP: Only ordering 1 or 2 copies of each brochure is allowed, but when you get to the end of the checkout process, there will be a text box where you can write a comment. Write something like “I am a mental health consultant for ___ Job Corps Center. We are having a health fair, and would like to have 100 copies of each brochure. Thank you.”

Job Corps Safety Hotline — Order posters, wallet cards, Fentanyl awareness posters, and download graphics that can be used to promote the Job Corps safety hotline.

Downloadable Materials

NAMI - NAMI has downloadable fact sheets related to mental health warning signs, helping others who are struggling, and statistics related to mental health diagnosis and treatment.
Mental Health America — MHA develops several annual toolkits with fact sheets, worksheets, graphics and information that can be shared with others.

Mental Health Awareness Month: Observed in May
BIPOC Mental Health Month: Observed in July
Back to School: Sent out in August/September

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