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By 2008, 54 middle schools were trained to use our first program and just one year later, our Parent Handbook on Childhood and Adolescent Depression was launched. : A Video-Based Study Guide was taught to 1,745 teens and our high school program, Teen Depression: In the fall of 2017, we launched our new high school program, the Erika’s Lighthouse Program: Depression and Suicide Awareness for High School Students. Our Erika’s Lighthouse Teen Clubs continue to make strides against stigma and have expanded into middle schools and high schools across the United States in Illinois, Colorado, California, and Florida.

A surfer doesn’t fight the powerful ocean wave; he moves with the wave riding its natural tide. “Riding the wave” is also a psychological practice of surfing your own powerful and negative emotions

She shared that often parents and children enter treatment seeking an elimination of suffering, whether it’s presenting as anxiety, post-traumatic stress, depression etc. With this, she draws a bar graph where anxiety makes up larger column and life makes up the shorter column. She reframes the goal of treatment from reducing or eliminating the anxiety column, to increasing the life column. Come hear more from Lee Del Pra at our upcoming Erika’s Lighthouse Parent Education Panel Ready, Set, Thrive!

I started to learn about the impact of foods I put into my body, strength and resistance training and how exercise isn’t just going on the treadmill. I didn’t need to wait until a specific day time or year to begin again, each moment is an opportunity to start new. I didn’t need January 1, 2019 to come around to tell me it’s a new year filled with new goals and opportunities. Since the break I took, I can confidently say that although my eating is still a challenge, going to the gym gives me immediate results and results that people don’t often talk about.