{"id":3002,"date":"2016-07-19T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2016-08-17T12:34:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T19:34:23","slug":"teen-advisory-board-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2016\/teen-advisory-board-july-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Advisory Board — July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teen Advisory Board 7\/9\/2016<\/p>\n

Present: \u00a0Chris, Kara, Haneen, Bella, Meep, Luke, Lauren, Julia<\/p>\n

Special guest: \u00a0Geoff Milam, Pasadena Health Department<\/p>\n

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Two months ago, the Teen Advisory Board launched a mental health initiative to increase awareness and discussions around topics of mental health, provide specialized services and programs for teens, family and friends, provide training for staff, and maintain a well-stocked, vetted, mental health resource center. The Initiative is completely teen driven. From inception to implementation, the Teen Advisory Board provided library staff with direction and feedback to sustain a mental health resource center, provide their peers with free access to mental health resources, and programs to advocate for teens with mental illness.<\/p>\n

This summer, the TAB teens have started assembling a very large list of mental health resources and adding to our reading list. \u00a0They will also be working on library brochures and possible awareness events, reviewing books and movies for discussions around topics of mental health, and surveying their peers on what kind of support they would like to see from our community.<\/p>\n

This July, Geoff Milam from the Pasadena Public Health Department attended the\u00a0TAB meeting to show his support for our Mental Health Initiative. He spoke about his work with the Health Dept. and the possibility of partnering with the library and TAB to bring in more support for youth (such as counseling sessions or information sharing). He talked about\u00a0Project Wraparound, a program aimed at enhancing mental wellbeing of youth and families. The program provides individualized care to children and youth ages 0-21 with serious emotional and behavioral challenges. He talked about social work and social workers, effectively\u00a0de-stigmatizing social work as a result. There are different groups of social workers, but the bottom line is that social workers help people solve and cope with problems in their everyday lives. They help connect people with appropriate information and services (a bit like a librarian!).<\/p>\n

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