Resilience Academy Mental Health Classes for Teens

Pieta House was founded in 2006 and the largest provider of therapy services, for suicide and self-harm in Ireland. Our services are available in 15 centres nationwide. We work in conjunction with the National Office for Suicide Prevention, the Health Service Executive, Tusla – the Child and Family Support Agency and other national and local services to maximise care for our clients.

 Our Resilience Academy was offered to secondary schools nationwide for the third year running, and has grown dramatically from the 400 students total seen in the 2017/2018 school year. In 2018/2019 academic year, the programme will be delivered  in  74 schools across 18 counties. In those schools, the resilience academy facilitators will train 273 classes and more than 6,696 students in total. 71 teacher sessions accumulating to 111 hours will be delivered to school staff in conjunction with the students training. Aggressive fundraising is being undertaken and the numbers in June at the end of the school year are likely to be much higher as we are regularly receiving solicitation from schools to provide Resilience Academy to their students.

 The Resilience Academy is like no other programme in Ireland:

•  It  is  all  about  the  schools,  with  students  identifying  andaddressing  the  issues  that  are important to them.
• Our modules have been developed with specialists in each area.
•  All  sessions  are  delivered  by  Pieta  House  therapists,  who  stay  after  each  session  in  case anyone needs to talk.
•  We make sure the same therapists deliver the programme each week so they can build a rapport with students.
•  The programme is delivered over 6 weeks but we stay in touch with the school afterwards so they always have someone to speak with if they need to.
•  We can prove it works. We have testimonials and statistics to show that students who have completed the programme have increased levels of resilience, as well as increased hope for the future, an ability to handle upset feelings, and an increase in connection with their school.

Our Resilience Academy is a professional, adaptable programme that provides life-long skills for students, and hassle-free support and information teachers.

We at Pieta House believe that prevention is the way forward in addressing deaths by suicide in Ireland. As a large portion of our clients who reach out to us in crisis are under the age of 18, this work is vitally important. Thank you for supporting Ireland's youth and our Pieta House Resilience Academy.

Links:

• Pieta House Website
• Pieta House Facebook Page