The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is administering the program, which is called Youth Aware of Mental Health and was developed by researchers at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and Columbia University in New York. UT Southwestern researcher Marshall Motsenbocker, who led the program’s five 45-minute sessions at Uplift Hampton, said role-playing helps teens talk through difficult issues. Youth Aware of Mental Health is just one of the programs used to teach teens about mental health. The National Alliance on Mental Illness created a 50-minute program called Ending the Silence that teaches students the warning signs of mental health problems. “It was an idea, frankly, whose time had come,” said Glenn Liebman, CEO of the Mental Health Association in New York State, Inc., a mental health advocacy group that spent several years pushing for the legislation before it passed.

Source: National Post February 09, 2019 14:56 UTC