Sharpen offers a variety of services to improve mental health outcomes and decrease heath disparities for both organizations and communities. The benefits of the Sharpen system include participant increase in: 1. mental health awareness and literacy through our award-winning, evidence based mental health trainings 2. access to evidence-based healthy coping toolkits 3. engagement in the discussion around mental health 4. connection to validated mental health screenings 5. trauma-informed...

Free CEs for LPCs, nurses, social workers and educators, as part of VNS Health Safe Pathway suicide prevention effort.

Evidence-based "5 Minute Mindfulness" cards are available that boost resilience, mental health literacy and accessibility.

Announcing the Sharpen Shop with an entire collection of resiliency gear that has powerful messages of hope and healing. In particular the award-winning "5 Minute Mindfulness" program has been deployed in resilient schools and community suicide prevention initiatives for over 10 years.

New research publication on a college student mental health literacy mentoring program shows effectiveness

Trauma-informed, disordered eating prevention training for physicians launches in South Carolina after 13 years of collaborative efforts.

We must implement suicide prevention programs that increase connectedness at the family, school and community levels.

Sharpen's evidence-based 5 hour Mental Health Literacy course improves resiliency and mental health literacy for participants ages 14 and up.

The Film Collaborative has joined our team as Fiscal Sponsor for "Sylvia The Wood Nymph" feature documentary. This means that donations to the project are tax-deductible.

After providing evidence-based prevention programs in K12 schools for nearly 20 years through disordered eating prevention and Resilient Schools initiatives, Sharpen is offering a free 30 day Stress Buster program for individuals ages 14 and up.

Learn suicide postvention best practices including evidence-based strategies for preventing contagion / clusters, trauma-informed best practices.

Sharpen announces a free emotional wellness toolkit for educators.

Over the course of 15 years of research, I and my team at Sharpen have created a comprehensive system to help school districts accomplish all of the recommendations released in yesterday's report from Dept of Ed; including: enhancing mental health literacy, reducing stigma about mental disorders, implementing evidence-based prevention practices and establishing an Integrated Framework of social, emotional and behavioral health support.

This is the second in a series on how the arts can build resilience in a community. This project, in particular, was one of the top five in my career and still has lasting impact on so many levels.

I wanted to share a little series about the ways in which the arts can build resilience. For this weekend, I will start at the beginning ... back in the late 1990's and early 2000's with a rock musical that impacted thousands of lives.

Building SEL and MHL are both critical to improving school mental health. According to recent discussions with thought-leaders at PBIS, it is recommended that SEL is integrated following school mental health and school wide positive behavior supports (Weist et al, 2018). We are missing the boat if we are excluding Mental Health Literacy (MHL) and mental health education training.

Dr. Tim Brewerton's course on dissociative identity disorder now available, featuring video clips from various stages of treatment and illustrates the dissociative processes and the various "alters" identified. 5 hours of CMEs/CNEs/CEUs are available. Learn more and register at: www.sharpenminds.com/sylvia

Presented April 15-16 as a virtual abstract for the Southeastern School Behavioral Health Conference, we are making this one hour session available to celebrate strategies for building resiliency through deep community engagement. In particular, the presenters will highlight a trauma-informed technology resource, Sharpen Family, how it was designed in collaboration with over 15 agencies specializing in childhood welfare to support parents of young children and those in the foster care system.

Free resources / webinars covering an array of topics on suicide prevention and postvention best practices. Topics range from screening to K16-community resilience, MBSR, athlete and veteran mental health.

Free resources to help children and teens manage grief & loss including a webinar featuring Dr. Alex Karydi and a suicide prevention task force of interdisciplinary practitioners, researchers and clinicians.