Curriculum
One of the largest gaps in our country right now is not having enough mental health curricula to teach people of all ages the skills they need to manage their mental health. Over the past 20 years, mental health organizations have done an effective job of letting the public know the statistics surrounding mental health issues.
Now it’s time to take the next step and help people develop skills to address their emotions. Our country teaches about physical health and diet from kindergarten through the rest of a person’s life. It’s time to do the same with mental health!
Tried & Tested
Behind Happy Faces Mental Health Curriculum is a first of its kind, evidence-based, award-winning program, that is used by hundreds of thousands of students and adults nation-wide. There are different versions of Behind Happy Faces depending on where you want to use the curriculum.
Behind Happy Faces is widely-scalable and effective, because it uses a two-part system to teach lessons. The curriculum utilizes creative PowerPoint presentations to expose participants to the knowledge necessary for understanding mental health in their lives. The interactive exercises that coincide with the PowerPoint presentations have been constructed to maximize retention and improve participants’ emotional relationships to themselves and others. This system is designed to deliver information in a short timeframe, in order to meet participants where they are, in the culture that they live.
Evidence Based
Behind Happy Faces Mental Health Curriculum has evidence based data showing increases in help seeking behavior, decreases in stigma and increased ability in self-efficacy. To learn more about the curriculum and how your organization or school can use it please click here.
