Youth Experiences with Anxiety and Self-Injury
This is an up-to-date, research-based, informational, three-hour presentation about anxiety and self-injury of a non-suicidal nature in youth. Participants learn strategies for supporting young people who face these challenges.
Workshop Outline and Objectives
- Anxiety and its effects
- How to help an adolescent with anxiety
- The relationship between anxiety and self injury
- What is Non Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI)?
- The Lived Experiences of self injury survivors
- Self Injury signs, common and less common
- Strategies for helping
- Strategies for coping
- Crisis Line information
If you are interested in having us present Youth Experiences with Anxiety and Self-Injury, please contact us at 250-753-2495, toll free at 1-877-753-2495, or via email at info@vicrisis.ca. Please include preferred dates and an estimate of how many attendees from your agency or business would participate. Thank you.
Please note that this customizable, three-hour workshop can be facilitated on our premises, at your location, or in a virtual environment.
Fee: $1000; Fee for nonprofit agencies: $750
Maximum Number of Participants: 24; Mininum: 8
This workshop was first presented in tribute to Crisis Line Awareness Week in March 2017.
When registering for a VICS Community Education workshop, you help to financially support our Crisis Chat and Crisis Text services.