It’s summer break time! It can be a huge relief to have the day-to-day pressures of the school year behind you. At the same time, summer’s looser structure can sometimes leave you feeling lonely or out of sorts. The Erika’s Lighthouse community knows that positive mental health practices are important year-round (and not just when […]
Last month, more than 375 students, parents, and educators took the Erika’s Lighthouse Positivity Pledge. That is at least 11,625 acts of putting some positivity in the world. How great is that?? Many thanks to all of you who signed the pledge and those who engaged their family and friends to support their commitment to […]
Erika’s Lighthouse is proud of our immediate efforts to provide practical tools and resources for students, educators and parents to promote positive mental health through the Positivity Pledge campaign. Our new efforts have reached thousands across the country with meaningful, engaging resources designed to help with the difficult transition we are all making. Take the Pledge […]
When we think about love and how it connects to our personal well-being, there are strong indicators that suggest it is better to love than to not love.
In an effort to help middle and high school students deal with issues related to teen depression, the Sarah Michelle Peterson Foundation has been training school staff to help them recognize the signs in an effort to prevent suicide. In a partnership with Suffolk Public Schools, eighth- and 10th-grade students will hear from their health […]