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ATCAA Tuolumne Prevention Programs Bob White Prevention Programs/YES Partnership Director

Friday Night Live • The Friday Night Live (FNL) program is designed for high school-aged students. It is motivated by youth-adult partnerships that create essential and powerful opportunities to enhance and improve local communities. Community service, social action activities, participation in advocacy for safe and healthy environments, and promotion of healthy policies are organized by youth to appeal to youth.

Club Live • Club Live (CL) is an extension of the successful Friday Night Live program and is aimed at middle school age students. CL fosters resiliency and protective factors through the development of action-oriented chapters.

Mentoring Works • Mentoring Works is a community based one-on- one mentoring program. Volunteer mentors are matched with children from their community and are given the freedom to get together on their own time to develop a friendship with their protégés.

YES Partnership • The YES Partnership is a community-wide coalition which supports Tuolumne County youth and families and is dedicated to promoting resilience and preventing suicide, substance, and child abuse.

The Council • The Council is a strengths-based group approach to promote boys’ and young men’s safe and healthy passage through pre-teen and adolescent years. The Council meets a core developmental need in boys for strong, positive relationships. In this structured environment, boys and young men gain the vital opportunity to address masculine definitions and behaviors and build their capacities to find their innate value and create good lives – individually and collectively.

Girls Circle • The Girls Circle model, a structured support group for girls from 9-18 years, integrates relational theory, resiliency practices, and skills training in a specific format designed to increase positive connection, personal and collective strengths, and competence in girls. It aims to counteract social and interpersonal forces that impede girls’ growth and development by promoting an emotionally safe setting and structure within which girls can develop caring relationships and use authentic voices.

Mental Health First Aid • Mental Health First Aid is an 8-hour course that teaches how to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. The training helps identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders.

Youth Mental Health First Aid • Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human service workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. Youth Mental Health First Aid is primarily designed for adults who regularly interact with young people. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations.

esuicide TALK • esuicide TALK uses a virtual classroom environment to explore questions around suicide, its causes, and how it can be prevented through open and honest discussion. Participants log in via a voucher system and complete the course at their own pace, typically in one to two hours.

safeTALK • safeTalk is a half-day alertness training that prepares anyone over the age of 15, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide alert helper. Most people with thoughts of suicide don’t truly want to die, but are struggling with the pain in their lives. Through their words and actions, they invite help to stay alive. safeTALK-trained helpers can recognize these invitations and take action by connecting them with life-saving intervention resources.

ASIST • Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is for everyone 16 and older—regardless of prior experience—who wants to be able to provide suicide first aid. The ASIST model teaches effective intervention skills while helping to build suicide prevention networks in the community.

Project ACTION • Project ACTION (A Commitment to Improve Our Neighborhood) is a new Alcohol and Drugs Primary Prevention Services program to reduce youth access to marijuana. • TAPS (Teens Against Pot Smoking) consists of two phases – youth teacher training, and then the youth teachers presenting to younger children and peers.

For More Information • For information regarding any of the ATCAA Prevention Programs please contact Bob White, Prevention Programs/YES Partnership Director at (209) 533-1397 x226 or rwhite@atcaa.org.