RiseUP Youth is designed to provide youth with practical skills focusing on relationships and emotion regulation to improve overall mental wellness. This small-groups program is interactive and collaborative!
RiseUP Parenting/Caregiving is an educational and skilled-based group for parents/caregivers of youth participating in the RiseUP Youth group.
Who: Grade 8-12
When: Wednesdays @ 6:30pm-8:30pm. Oct 18th - Nov 22nd, 2023
Where: West Van Youth Hub
How much: FREE (Funded by Enhance West Van)
All youth will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the program!
The RiseUP program was developed to build strength, resilience, and coping skills among youth as a way of enhancing interpersonal functioning and sense of self. Throughout this program youth will learn practical skills and gain awareness regarding a variety of personal and relational issues that affect mental wellbeing.
The program is evidence-informed, interactive, collaborative, and geared toward empowering youth!
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The RiseUp program is informed by the Healthy Relationships Plus Program – Enhanced (HRP-E), created by the Centre for School Mental Health at Western University, and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.
The RiseUP programs are for any adolescent that is struggling with relationships, mental health, or problems with self-esteem and identity. The programs are also for youth who strive for more within themselves and their relationships.
Wherever youth may be on the continuum of health, the RiseUP youth program helps adolescents develop vital and enduring inter- and intrapersonal skills to be used through the lifespan.
Understanding mental health & coping strategies
Understanding healthy vs. unhealthy relationships
Power, control, equality, and respect in relationships
Boundaries & consent
Healthy communication styles
Dealing with peer pressure & sticky situations
Managing through the pandemic
Substance use & abuse
Bullying and online safety
Interpersonal & dating violence
Zoom Workshops
When: November & December 2023
How much: FREE (Funded by Enhance West Van)
Facilitator: Melissa Ander, M.Ed., RCC; Clinical Director, Youth, family, and couples therapist
To achieve optimal results, we believe in working with systems to integrate and support new skills. By drawing on a child's most potent and influential relationships, their family, we see more sustained change. The RiseUp Parenting group works to support parents & caregivers in supporting their youth as they participate in the RiseUp program by providing families with common language, skills, and resources.
Learning on behalf of our children’s development is a great act of love. In addition, there exists the opportunity through our parenting to continue to learn, grow and evolve more fully as individuals, benefitting ourselves, our children, families, and communities within which we are members.
Parent self-awareness & responding styles
Behaviour has meaning
Attachment Principles - see me, hear me, show me I matter
Conflict - what is it really and our role as the caregiver
Validation, ruptures, and repairs
Boundaries - setting boundaries for connection