Sat., May 18: Mental Health Awareness Month Rodney Street Block Party, 12-2pm, 111 N. Rodney Street. The community is invited to this family-friendly event to join kid-friendly activities, food, and fun! Resources from a variety of mental health and wellness organizations will be available. Chili O’Brian’s Food Cart will be there! See the flyer here.

Sat., April 20: Tri-county Out of the Darkness Campus Walk, 12 p.m., East Helena High School. The entire community is invited to help raise awareness and funds for suicide prevention programs locally and across the state. Walking together with friends, neighbors, family and other community members helps save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide. Register to walk and help make a difference. Register here.

Please join us for our monthly meeting at Lewis & Clark Public Library or via Zoom Monday April 8th at 10:15 am.

The August meeting will be held at Lewis & Clark Library from 10 am to 11:30 am in the Large Community Room.

Please join us for Elevate Montana Helena Affiliate’s June meeting at Lewis & Clark Library Small Meeting Rm and via Zoom. To join by Zoom click here.

Please join us for Elevate Montana Helena Affiliate’s June meeting at Lewis & Clark Library Small Meeting Rm and via Zoom. To join by Zoom click here.

Basic training to raise awareness about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and resilience. Register here

Come join us at Rodney Street May 21st at noon for a free event honoring Mental Health Awareness Month. There will be resource taqbles, kid-friendly activities and free food. The festivities continue with the Rodney Street Project. Check it out at @rodneystreetis

Please join us for Elevate Montana Helena Affiliate’s May meeting via Zoom and in person at Lewis & Clark Library Small Meeting Rm.

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Helena Coalition Gathering/Resource Fair Helena Middle School Gym. Gathering 9 am, Fair 10 am to 2 pm. Register at https://bit.ly/3J98Vd0

Tri-county Out of the Darkness Campus Walk, 12 – 2 p.m., East Helena High School, 2760 Valley Dr., East Helena. Formerly known as the East Helena Out of the Darkness Campus Walk, this year’s event is rebranded to include our neighbors in Broadwater and Jefferson Counties. Register here.

QPR training in-person, 6 – 8 p.m. Clancy Library, 3 N. Main St. Be part of the solution to stop suicide in Montana by participating in this training. This free, 2-hour session of the suicide prevention training QPR is intended for anyone 18 years old and over. It will teach participants the skills they need to help friends, neighbors, and loved ones who are struggling with thoughts of suicide. Register here.

Please join us for Elevate Montana Helena Affiliate’s April meeting via Zoom.

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This free, 2-hour session of the suicide prevention training QPR is intended for anyone from the faith community who is18 years old and older. It will teach participants the skills they need to help friends, neighbors, and loved ones who are struggling with thoughts of suicide.

Brought to you by the Jefferson County Mental Health Local Advisory Council and the Lewis and Clark Public Health Suicide Prevention Program.

Location: Jefferson County Clerk Recorders Office102 S. Monroe St., Boulder, MT 59632

Register: https://bit.ly/3sSSKe7

Youth Mental Health First Aid, 8 – 5 p.m. Whitehall Community Library, 110 1st St. West in Whitehall. A young person you know could be experiencing a mental health challenge or crisis. You can help them. It’s pretty common for adults to have difficulty telling the difference between what is normal adolescence and a mental health challenge. Youth Mental Health First Aid teaches participants how to decode adolescence and how to provide initial help to a young person they’re worried about. Through a five-step action plan known as ALGEE, participants will be able to recognize a potential mental challenge in an adolescent and know how to connect them to the appropriate professional, peer, social or self-help care. Any adult can take the Youth Mental Health First Aid course, but it is designed for adults who work with or are caretakers of young people, ages 12 – 18. To participate in this free in-person training, please register at https://bit.ly/YMHFAWHITEHALL and then join us at 8 a.m. at the Whitehall Community Library. Email jhegstrom@lccountymt.gov for questions.

Please join us for Elevate Montana Helena Affiliate’s March meeting via Zoom.

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This 1-hour training raises awareness about how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress can impact children throughout their lifetimes. When exposed to high amounts of prolonged stress it can affect their developing brains and shape how they see, feel, and react to situations for the rest of their lives. Not only that, if left untreated it can lead to self-medicating (drug and alcohol abuse, tobacco use, self-harm, suicide, etc.), and can affect the health of that child as they get older (high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, etc.).
While Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can impact the life of a child – a loving, caring, healthy relationship can offset the damage caused by ACEs. Resilience is a combination of skills learned through healthy relationships that helps us overcome the adversity we have experienced in life.

Email elevatemontanahelenaaffiliate@gmail.com to register & receive Zoom link.

When it comes to suicide, survivors can’t do anything to erase their losses, but they can be a force of good to support the newly bereaved and prevent additional deaths.
If you are a behavioral health professional or have lost someone to suicide, please join us for a virtual information session on a new project to help the newly bereaved. Known as LOSS Team, the program pairs suicide loss survivors and local behavioral health professionals to provide support to new survivors at the scene or through follow-up contact. The goal is to get them connected to services as quickly as possible while offering an installation of hope. That way survivors can learn that there is life after loss. With your help, we can make a lasting difference for survivors in the Lewis and Clark County Area. Register here.

Please join us for Elevate Montana Helena Affiliate’s February meeting via Zoom.

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Investigating Neurobiology and New Treatments for Addiction, Depression and Anxiety webinar, 12 p.m. Dr. Nii Addy of the Yale School of Medicine and his research team study the brain processes that contribute to addiction, depression, and anxiety. In this talk, Dr. Addy will discuss his research on calcium processes within the brain’s reward system, that may serve as effective therapeutic targets. He will also describe how current FDA-approved medications, that impact these brain calcium processes, could be repurposed as novel, effective treatments for addiction, mood disorders, and co-occurring addiction, depression and/ or anxiety. Register here.

Please contact Rebecca Hargis at elevatemontanahelenaaffiliate@gmail.com to register.

School-based Suicide Prevention: Promising Approaches and Opportunities for Research, webinar, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. This NIMH-hosted webinar will provide an opportunity for diverse stakeholders, including school administrators, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and funders, to learn about new and innovative practices in school-based suicide prevention. There will be a particular focus on identifying and supporting high-risk youth, as well as opportunities for evaluating these efforts. Register for this webinar here.

Our next meeting will be held over Zoom from 10am to 11am on January 10th, 2022. Please follow the link below and we look forward to seeing you.

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