Jefferson High School, one of eight high schools nationwide chosen to participate in a Teen Mental Health First Aid pilot program, kicked things off last Friday with teacher and staff training.
Youth Dynamics, which provides mental health services to children and families in Boulder and elsewhere in Montana, has joined Jefferson High to assist with the study, which superintendent Tim Norbeck has called “a real good opportunity for a rural school” in a state with the highest suicide rate in the country.
The first of its kind developed for high school students in the U.S., the pilot program is run by the National Council for Behavioral Health and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation and will be evaluated by researchers from Johns Hopkins University.
