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- “What I Wish My Parents Knew”
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- Looking Good on Paper — But At What Cost?
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- “You’d never say, ‘It’s just cancer, get over it.”
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- 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’
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- NBA’s Kyle Anderson Returns For Depression Awareness Fundraiser
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- 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
- 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
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- Moving Grief
- Deaths Focus Attention On Suicide Prevention
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- 15 Years Later, Erika’s Lighthouse Continues To Teach Teens About Depression In Memory Of Daughter
- Self R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
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- 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 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
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- 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
- 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!”
- 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
- 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
- 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
- A Corona Chronicle
- Stress & Anxiety Of Pandemic Is Taking Its Toll On Youth
- 6 Mental Health Resources For Students During The Coronavirus Pandemic
- 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
- 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
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- 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
