Chads Coalition For Mental Health

Family support: through the family support program, chads provides teens and young adults shortterm, solution focused crises counseling from licensed professionals, addressing critical behaviors such as selfinjury, bullying, depression, explosive anger, anxiety, and signs or thoughts of suicide. Chads provides oneonone crises stabilization counseling in the office or school setting. Chads also facilitates support groups for youth and parents. During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2024, chads provided 570 inoffice counseling sessions and 6,460 inschool counseling sessions. 22% of clients seen were suicidal. 70.4% of suicidal clients showed improvement following participation in chads services.

Awareness: chads continues to increase awareness of adolescent suicide and depression through participation in public events, community outreach activities, speaking engagements, media interviews and presentations.