Youth ERA,
Peer Plus 2021 - Receive your Traditional Health Worker License and become a Youth Peer Support Specialist!
Oregon YouthLine
Free support for teens via phone, text or chat. During COVID Teens are available on the call line from 4pm - 10pm.
Call: 877-968-8491
Text: Teen2Teen to 839863
Email:
[email protected]
National Runaway Safeline
Call: 1-800-RUNAWAY
Chat: 1800RUNAWAY.org
Text: 66008
Hollaback!
Social Media Safety Guides for Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Tumblr. Help with defining, reporting, blocking and muting online harassment.
Visit Hollaback! here.
NAMI Young Adult Connection Group (For young adults 18+ living with a mental health condition)
Tuesdays online 6:30-8 pm
Point Source Youth has free weekly webinars on COVID 19 response and how young people play a role.
Lane County 2020 Youth Mental Health OHP Referral Pathway
FUN! Mask Wearing Education for Youth Flyer
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Ayude a los niños ausar una máscara
Practices & Models
TREM-Trauma Recovery Empowerment Model for youth
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Lane County System of Care, provides wraparound services for children and youth experiencing severe mental health, developmental/intellectual and behavioral challenges. Youth are welcome to join the committees ($30 gift card/meeting), lead projects, voice their concerns about systems, and share ideas for solution.
Peer Support:
Youth ERA Peer Support Services
NAMI Online Support Groups
CentroLatinoAmericano Youth Mentoring Program
Association for Children’s Mental Health -
Ask a Peer
Oregon Family Support Network Peer Support Services
Services & Supports for Youth
Community Outreach through Radical Empowerment (CORE), dedicated to supporting, empowering and advocating for young people in Lane County.
- Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/core.eugene.7
St. Vincent de Paul offering a female identified youth program for up to 2 years of transitional housing
Hosea Youth Services, for the high-risk and unhoused youth community age 16-24.
Looking Glass, emergency shelter, educational services and programs for unhoused youth.
Youth Era, RECHARGE day shelter for unhoused or at-risk youth up to age 21 at the First United Methodist Church.
Read the KVAL story here.
- Stay up to date with
Youth Era's Facebook
15h Night: Food is available for youth. Text or call 541-556-7446.
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15th Night Rapid Access to Resources and Services
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15th Night Youth Resource for Youth Facing Hardships in Eugene/Springfield (updated 3/17/2021)
FOOD for Lane County
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Emergency Food Boxes
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Programs for Children
The
Positive Kitchen has volunteer opportunities for youth.
Stressed Teens website helps teens with stress management, emphasis is mainly on mindfulness. Resources for parents, teens and professionals.
Checkered Past MMA Gym offers youth education about self defense, accountability, and the value of social work to help others. Free week for new comers.
True Colors United Covid-19 Action and Resource Center: info on mental health, LGBTQ young people during this time, and more general resources
National Network 4 Youth - Policy and Tax Stimulus Resources
The National Network for Youth. Call 202-783-7949
PointSourceYouth offers free weekly webinars on COVID 19 response for youth.
Workforce Investment Opportunity Act (WIOA) supports individual, including youth with significant barriers to employment, into high-quality jobs and careers.
School Resources & Support
Helping out Our Teens in Schools (HOOTS) offering mental health support by phone for students, families, and staff of high schools in the 4J, Springfield, Bethel, Oakridge and South Lane school districts.
Even during school closures.
Phone line open M- F 9am-4pm.
- For students, families and staff of 4J, Eugene Charter and Bethel High Schools please call (541) 246-2342.
- For students, families and staff of Springfield, Oakridge and South Lane High Schools please call (541) 246-2332.
McKinney-Vento Act: Homeless Education Program
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Learn about the program through the Oregon Department of Education here. (They can help you get food benefits - SNAP)
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4J School District program
Career Pathways at Lane Community College with PASS, helps to transition to credit classes and includes coaching, cohort advising, skill development, and student workshops.
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Download the application
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Attend and information session (scheduled August 4th - 26th)
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Navigating Homelessness Resources
Northwest Youth Corps offers a challenging education and job-training experience that helps youth and young adults from diverse backgrounds develop the skills they need to lead full and productive lives.
Explore the paths you can take to be involved in the solution to many challenges in the world with
AmeriCorps.
School-Based Health Centers
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4J Eugene School District
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Bethel School District
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Springfield Public Schools
Alternative School Programs
Kalapuya High School
Al Kennedy High School
Gateways High School
Family School (grade 6-8)