PHLH 13
Behavioral Health Prevention and Middle School Leadership Development Winter 2019

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In this course, students will learn about behavioral health prevention and promotion, with an emphasis on the prevention of substance use disorders and the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Strategic Prevention Framework. Following this grounding in prevention science, students will learn about middle school leadership development and community action with a behavioral health and wellness focus, and be trained to deliver core components of the New Hampshire Teen Institute’s (TI) Leaders in Prevention program for students in grades 6-8. The classroom portion of this course will prepare students to put this knowledge into practice as staff members at the January session of Leaders in Prevention, serving with other youth & adult staff members of TI to facilitate a weekend of education and networking for 50-60 middle school students from around NH and New England. Students in this course will work with teams of middle school students to help them create a student-led action plan for a school or community wellness event to be implemented in their home communities. During the first 2 weeks of the Winter Study period, students will meet on campus for approx. 15 hrs per week. The experiential portion of the course–serving as facilitators at the Leaders in Prevention weekend–will be an overnight trip from Thurs. 1/17–Sun 1/20 to a conference center in Greenfield, NH. (Lodging & food will be provided to students free of charge while at the camp.) This trip is mandatory for the course, and involves working with middle school youth for 3 very full days. Students will meet once again during the final week of Winter Study to debrief and process their facilitation experiences. Academic work will be primarily contained to the classroom time of the first two weeks. A culminating 10-page reflection paper to demonstrate a synthesis of students’ classroom and practical learning will be the only sizeable out-of-class work. Adjunct Instructor Bio: Marissa is the Executive Director of the NH Teen Institute and a trainer for multiple workshops developed by SAMHSA’s CAPT and ATTC systems. She is the Secretary of the Prevention Certification Board of NH and the NH Prevention delegate to the IC&RC, and serves on the NH Governor’s Commission Prevention Task Force. Outside of prevention work, she is Assoc. Artistic Dir. of Mill City Productions in North Adams, MA.
The Class: Format: afternoons
Limit: 15
Grading: pass/fail only
Requirements/Evaluation: 10-page reflection paper
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: lottery
Materials/Lab Fee: $45
Attributes: EXPE Experiential Education Courses

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