Programs

Friday Night Live – Campus Committed

Friday Night Live is a youth led action group that meets on high school campuses. Young people build leadership skills, broaden their social network and initiate projects that improve school climate and reduce youth access to alcohol.

Club Live – Campus Committed

Club Live is a club for middle school students that meets on middle school campuses. This group of youth build their leadership skills while increasing their social network and implementing community change projects.

Impact Mentoring

Mentoring is a program that pairs excelling high school students (mentors) with junior high school students (protégés) that could benefit from extra support. Mentors and protégés meet once a week to focus on setting goals to help improve the protégé’s life.

Youth Nexus

Youth Nexus is a youth led philanthropy board that focuses on grant writing, civic action, and community service. Youth Nexus was founded in 1999 as the first youth-led philanthropy board in Northern California.

Strengthening Families

Strengthening Families (SFP) is a nationally and internationally recognized parenting and family support program. SFP consists of a Challenge Day, 11 sessions, and a graduation night focused on building the parent’s, the teen’s, and the family’s capacity for healthy functional relationships.

Wellness Centers – Partnership with Paradise Unified School District (PHS & PJHS)

BCDBH Prevention staff operate student wellness center on campus at Paradise High School. Staff support implementation of mental health/wellness screenings, provide emotional support to students and provide referrals as needed for higher level of care support.

  • Support students individually in wellness center with mental health education, healthy relationships support, and other health topics.
  • Assess students on social determinants of health and other concerns using non-clinical assessment tools.
  • Utilize Motivational Interviewing to support stages of change around substance use or other risky behaviors.
  • Offer lunchtime and after school activities that promote wellness practices, social emotional learning (SEL) competencies, mindfulness, evidence-based stress busters & substance use prevention.
  • Coordinate and lead non-clinical skill-building groups— mindfulness, anger management, socialization groups, stress management, wellness practices. Group activities are promoted campus wide and open to any student that is interested in participating.

Classroom Presentations – Opioid/Fentanyl prevention education

Triple P Parenting – Level 4 Group for parents with children ages 0-12.

To learn more about the Prevention Unit’s programs, watch the Prevention Unit Video or contact us at 530-891-2891