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Local Outreach

With the help from our donors we are fighting the silent epidemic.

 With Students

  • By creating a safe place to have dialogue with students to create awareness and harness help seeking behaviors.

With Parents, Schools, and the Community

  • By taking a look at teens today.
  • By understanding the teenage brain under construction.
  • By the importance of one . . . providing scripts for adults to use so that they have the opportunity to build trusting relationships with their children / students.   

Using Social and Emotional Learning: Peer Led Evidenced Based Programs 

  • 2018-2019 school year in a partnership with Keep the Spark Alive we were fund Sources of Strength a pilot program in all Blue Valley School District high schools, Blue Valley Academy, and Pleasant Ridge Middle School.
  • 2019-2020 school year we will provide funding for Sources of Strength in 2 Blue Valley middle schools, Olathe East High School, Olathe Northwest High School, and Raymore-Peculiar High School.

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