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- How Culture Affects Mental Health
By: Patricia Voloschin-Weiner, LCPC - Homeschooling Humor
- Lady Gaga’s Foundation Supports Erika’s Lighthouse
- 5 Perspectives On Teen Depression: A Young Man’s Story
- 4 Ways to Find More Happy
- FALL into Good Mental Health
- Embrace the Chaos
- Starting A Teen Club to Protect Mental Health
- Resolve To Take Care Of Your Mental Health
- Be There To Help Teens, Seniors Cope With Stay At Home Pressures
- Getting Depression Out of the Dark
- How one school is coping with mental health: Social workers delivering technology, food and counseling to kids at home, and open office hours all day — even when school is out
- Teens In Isolation Finding Ways To ‘Be Social With Each Other’
- Discussing “The Mental Health Issue” After Parkland
- Living With A Silent Disability
- Broken Open
- Prioritize Your Mental Health While Away At College
- The Priceless Gift of Time
- Skills-Based Health Education Beyond the Classroom
By: Holly Alperin and Sarah Benes - 9 Serious Concerns about Depression Screening for Youth
- 10 Advantages of Erika’s Lighthouse
- Join Team Resilience – Get Depression Out of the Dark
- We Are Here For You
- Why Educators Must Focus on Student Mental Health
By: Stephanie Morris - ‘Help them ask for help’: More calls to increase mental health education in schools
- Are We Really Connecting?
- Vote for Erika’s Lighthouse today (and every day) for The Child Mind Institute Change Maker Community Builder Award.
- Building Calm, Giving Self-Compassion, and Staying Connected
- Embracing Diversity & Inclusion in Depression Education
- Get Depression Out of the Dark
- Think Positive, Be Positive
- 5 Perspectives On Teen Depression: A Mother’s Story
- Start the year with Erika’s Lighthouse – Back in School
- Now I am a Teacher?
- Mother’s Day—A Shift in Perspective
- We’re In This Together: New Year, New Challenges, New Resources
- Experiencing Depression and Loss During the Holidays
- Reframing the Narrative – Empowering Youth
- 5 Perspectives On Teen Depression: A School Counselor’s Story
- Getting Depression Out of the Dark…One Post at a Time
- Mental Health Education Mandated Laws
- Join Us On Our Journey
- Schools Can Address Mental Health Smarter, Better, Easier
- “What I Wish My Parents Knew”
- Seasonal Affective Disorder & Depression: Conversations Around “The Winter Blues”
- Book Club: “Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book about Depression”
- Looking Good on Paper — But At What Cost?
- Prioritize Your Mental Health While Away at College
- “You’d never say, ‘It’s just cancer, get over it.”
- The Importance of Using the Right Words
- Raise Awareness for Teen Mental Health
- Utilizing Tier 1 Universal Supports and Practices to Provide Mental Health Education to All
By: Nancy Watson, LCSW, CADC - Mind Over Matter
- The Shades of Loss
- 6 Ways to Reduce Anxiety
- 12 Phrases that Integrate Mental Health into PE
- We Are Watching YOU
- Team Resilience Runner Highlight – Ingrid Wefing
- Acceptance and Change
- Staying Sane During A Corona-Tine
- Teen Depression Program Aims To Reach Students
- 3 Mistakes Parents Can’t Afford to Make
- Homeschooling Humor – Week 2
- Understanding Your Thoughts
- Practicing Mindfulness
- Mental health groups mobilize virtual community for those isolated by coronavirus outbreak. ‘This is a lifeline for people’
- Shining Bright
- Join Us in Taking The Positivity Pledge
- How to Cope with Feeling Down During the Holidays
- Resource Highlight: Intervention Language For Educators
- NBA’s Kyle Anderson Returns For Depression Awareness Fundraiser
- How to support CPS students worried about going back to school
- Local Nonprofit Spotlight: Erika’s Lighthouse Illuminates Hope with Adolescent Depression
- 5 Perspectives On Teen Depression: Mental Health Policy
- A Teacher’s Honesty
- Erika’s Lighthouse is Helping Communities Address the Surgeon General’s Advisory
- Navigating New Terrain and Mapping A Future
- The “Girl Games”: The Unwritten Rules of Cliques, Friendships and how Self Confidence can Change the Game
- From the Inside Out
- SEL and Mental Health Education Build on One Another
By: Kristy Rauch, MA - Erika’s Lighthouse urges teens to take Positivity Pledge
- Race for Depression Awareness
- Preparing You for a Challenging Year
- Here Comes the Sun
- When Your Child Doesn’t Want to Go to School: Teen Depression and School Refusal
- Re-framing the Depression Narrative
- Food Is Thy Medicine
- Family Engagement – Another Step Towards Depression Awareness
- Spreading Hope, Saving Lives
- You Are Not Alone
- Erika’s Lighthouse: A Shining Light for Childhood-Teen Depression
- Erika’s Lighthouse, A Year in Review
- Moving Grief
- Educators Speak Out for Erika’s Lighthouse
- Deaths Focus Attention On Suicide Prevention
- Mental Health Education: The Power of Programs with Impact
- Racism, Mental Health & Challenging Conversations
- 15 Years Later, Erika’s Lighthouse Continues To Teach Teens About Depression In Memory Of Daughter
- Self R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
- Driving Cultural Change Through Conversation
- Nature vs. Technology: Where the Wild Things Are
- Erika’s Lighthouse: A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression Celebrates Its 15th Anniversary
- Holding On To Hope
- Second Step and Erika’s Lighthouse – 2020-21 School Year Implementation
- When The Outside Does Not Match The Inside
- This One’s For You-The Tired Parent
- Revisiting 2020
- A Beacon of Hope For Adolescent Depression
- Kiwanis and Key Club International Partner With Erika’s Lighthouse
- Team Resilience – Runner, Volunteer and Young Adult Board Member
- It Is Ok Just To Be Ok
- Erika’s Lighthouse Helps Hope Grow
- Turning Passion Into Action
- Go Light Your World
- Interview with the Bobblehead Dad
- The Power of Programs with Impact Part IV: School Policy & Staff Development
- The Relaxing Days of Summer
- Depression Education IS Suicide Prevention
- Five Reasons To Start A Teen Empowerment Club
- Teen Depression or Typical Teen Behavior? A Guide to Help You Tell the Difference
- Be A Friend, Find A Friend
- 5 Reasons Your School Needs Erika’s Lighthouse Free Programming
- Into The Unknown
- Classroom Accommodations For Students With Depression
- Finding Myself by Coming Out
- Get Involved: Join Our Young Adult Board
- SADD and Erika’s Lighthouse Partnership
- Our Exclusive Interview with TED Talk Presenter, Kevin Breel!
- 5 Ways Music Therapy Can Support Mental Health
- Why Mental Health Advocacy Is Important to Me
- No Time Like The Present
- Team Resilience: Johnny Figel–Running For A Reason
- Erika’s Lighthouse Update on Adolescent Mental Health: February 2023
- Remote Learning Causing A Mental Health Crisis Among Teens And Children?
- Running for a cause: Team Erika’s Lighthouse
- More than Manageable: Anxiety in Quarantine
- 5 Mindful Meditations for Every Personality
- We Got This
- The Power of Addressing Depression
- The Power of You: Creating Inclusive Communities
- Positivity Pledge Prevails
- Coronavirus and Anxiety
- Feeling the Loss of Our Village
- Early Decision, Regular Decision, Mental Health Decision: Teen Depression and the College Admissions Process
- Feel Better and Stay Better
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- To the Class of 2020-Your Loss Matters
- Meeting Educators to Meet Students
- Love Actually
- After High School Graduation-What’s Next?
- 5 Common Myths About Teen Depression
- Making a Resolution and Sticking to it Improves Mental Health
- Change Is In The Air
- Talking to the School About Your Child’s Depression: An Excerpt from the Parent Handbook on Childhood and Adolescent Depression
- The Dark Side of Spring
- Giving Tuesday -You Make a Difference
- Staff Training – A Guide To Being A Confident Trusted Adult At School
- The First Ever “Beacon Award”
- Mental Health in Schools – A School Counselor’s Letter
- Accepting Our Uncertain Futures
- Expand, Empower, Engage
- Art Auction Benefits Winnetka Youth Mental Health Nonprofit
- How Teenage Girls’ Self-Esteem Can Be Impacted by Social Media Pressure
- Engaging Volunteers: Empowering Communities
- When the Casseroles Don’t Come
- Things I Never Thought I Would Say At Work
- “Press Play” – The Benefit of Play for Your Mental Health
- Continuously Striving to Reach New Populations
- “It’s So Nice to See You!”
- Erika’s Lighthouse Program Report 2021-22
- Connecting With Professionals Anytime, Anywhere
- Top 10 Reasons to Join Team Resilience
- 2020-21 School Yearbook
- Depression & The Stomach: How Gut Health Relates to Mental Health
- Field of Dreams Fundraiser
- Changing With The Times
- New Year, New You: Exercise and Health
- Running for charity really is that easy…and rewarding
- Missing the Rituals of Departure
- A Partnership Between Erika’s Lighthouse and School Day
- Winning the John Fish ’55 Award For Distinguished Service to the Community
- Decoding the Secret Message
- Teaching Mindfulness: from a high school teacher’s perspective
- RESOURCE HIGHLIGHT: Shared Vocabulary
- None of this is Normal
- Coming Together So No Teen Feels Alone
- Shine A Light On Mental Health
- Social Media & Teen Mental Health
- Riding the Wave: DBT and Distress Tolerance
- Meeting the Needs of Today’s Teens, Educators and Parents
- Teachers Can and Will Make It Happen
- Everyday Athlete: Kathleen Hooper – Erika’s Lighthouse
- What “13 Reasons Why” Did Right…and Wrong
- White Paper: Model School District Policy on Suicide Prevention: Implementing Effective Prevention Strategies
- Erika’s Lighthouse Shines A Light On Depression
- Introducing Simple Summer Positivity Practices
- You CAN Overcome
- The Power of Programs with Impact
Part III: Family Engagement - Joining A Club: What’s In It For Me?
- 2019-20 End of School Year Report
- The Sirens Are Blaring
- How Schools Can Promote Healthy Coping Mechanisms for Teenage Depression
- Program Realignment to Create Cultural Change
- Crossing the Finals Finish Line
- Creative Classes Count
- The Power of Programs with Impact
Part II: Teen Empowerment - A Corona Chronicle
- Stress & Anxiety Of Pandemic Is Taking Its Toll On Youth
- 6 Mental Health Resources For Students During The Coronavirus Pandemic
- Strategies to Take Care of Your Mental Health By: Evangeline Topete
- Weighty Matters on My Mind – Can Weight Lifting & Exercise help Depression?
- CDC Report on Youth Mental Health: The Erika’s Lighthouse Perspective
- My Road to 26.2
- My Road to 26.2
- “Mark” My Words – Mental Health Awareness Saved My Life
- Running For A Reason
- Celebrating 15 Years as A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression
- Lost to Found: A Teacher’s Story
- Every Step I Take In Memory
- A Parent’s Handbook on Childhood and Teen Depression
- Antidepressants and Your DNA
- Fake It Till You Make It
- The Importance of Reaching Out to a Trusted Adult
- White Paper: Integrating Mental Health into the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Model for School Health
- Oy Vey, Musings from a Mom and Mental Health Professional
- Take the Positivity Pledge
- Mind”Phone”Ness – How Smartphones Impact Teen Mental Health and What Parents Can Do
- Accomplishing Goals in a Time of Uncertainty
- Last Minute Holiday Shopping Guide from a Recovering Materialist
- Conant High School Sets Sail with a New Program, Erika’s Lighthouse
- Back To School During A Pandemic
- Implementing The Model School District Policy on Suicide Prevention
