MentorME Mental Health Proposal

Dr. Telethia Barrett Telethia Barrett Ministries Kingdom Life Assemblies 1312 Bigger Street Gary, IN 40404 (219) 200-4045 (919) 285-9654

MentorME September 24th 2018 February 10th 2020 OVERVIEW MentorME is a concept mentoring program evisioned by Gary, IN native Dr. Telethia Denise Barrett to help solve the many problems facing troubled youth and a crippled public school system that is struggling to be efficient in education and family counseling simultaneously. We hope to provide insight and guidance for parents, students, administration and Community Partners.

GOALS 1.

Help students self identify issues and self-correct

2. Help parents and families identify issues and heal 3. Help administrators identify issues, manage and direct 4. Help School academic officers develop curriculum and testing 5. Help School District go from low-performing to achieving 6. Secure more federal and state funding 7. Create a better quality of life through the education system

SPECIFICATIONS We would like to work with the Gary area students who are showing signs of learning difficulties.

We believe that behavioral issues, PTSD, PTSS, mental health and substance use disorders are underlying issues for learning difficulties and low test scores. Students and the community will learn coping mechanisms, as well as ways to self correct. We believe our program will provide learning and teaching breakthroughs that can be replicated in simular school systems nationwide.

MILESTONES Formulating the program We would like to work with the ●

The Gary School System

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The Mental Health Department

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Children and Family Services

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Gary Housing Authority

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WorkOne

To revive Gary, we need to be honest with the education and mental health epidemic that our community is facing. No one likes to talk about it, but we are all living to see our children struggle, so we must take dramatic steps as a collective, and community to solve these problems.

We hope to create a program that will keep the family intact without prejudice, so that the community can heal, ReVive.

Implementing the program ●

Creating curriculum for self-awareness

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Create self-empowerment curriculum

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Create small Talk it out sessions.

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Create apprenticeship and work programs

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Identifying housing issues

Executing the program We would like the program to be implemented in every school throughout Gary, Indiana.

Continue to reach as many citizens throughout the city with similar programs with the Gary Housing Authority and Children and Family Services.

This would mean a series of classes would need to be taught at every grade level.

The program will have mental health experts to help develop curriculum.

Identifying mental Health issues in students https://www.mentalhealth.gov/what-to-look-for

This link is a very good description of Emotional Disturbance https://arksped.k12.ar.us/rules_regs_08/3.%20SPED%20ELIGIBILITY%20CRITERIA%20AND%20P ROGRAM%20GUIDELINES%20FOR%20CHILDREN/PART%20I%20ELIGIBILITY%20CRITERIA%20 AGES%205-21/D.%20EMOTIONAL%20DISTURBANCE.pdf