Jana Marie Foundation

SHINE Club
2025-01-27 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-02-10 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-02-24 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | PA
Through hands-on activities and discussions Jana Marie Foundation’s Shine Club provides practical tools and techniques for building resiliency and self-confidence in middle school-aged girls & nonbinary students. Participants are given opportunities to use their voice, follow their passions, and believe in themselves for the amazing young people that they are. Each session provides a space for conversations and connection and offers a time for self-reflection and expression through art and games.

Youth Mental Health First Aid
2025-01-29 09:00 - 17:00 | PA
Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. Youth Mental Health First Aid is primarily designed for adults who regularly interact with young people.
The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, substance use, disorders in which psychosis may occur, disruptive behavior disorders (including AD/HD), and eating disorders.

Compassion Resilience for Parents and Caregivers
2025-01-30 12:15 - 13:15 | Schlow Library
Join Schlow Library in partnership with the Jana Marie Foundation for a lunch-and-learn discussion, Compassion Resilience for Parents and Caregivers. In each weekly session, we will explore the role of compassion in parenting, especially how to build compassion resilience in the face of the inevitable fatigue that comes from round-the-clock caregiving and caretaking.
When: Thursdays beginning January 9 and running through February 27, 2025 @ 12:15-1:15 PM
Where: The Sunroom, 2nd floor, Schlow Library
Please bring a lunch to enjoy!
Register here
Questions? Please contact Christine Hughes at Jana Marie Foundation (814) 954-5920 or christine@janamariefoundation.org

REACH Club
2025-01-30 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-02-06 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-02-13 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-02-20 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-03-06 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-03-20 17:30 - 18:30 | PA
Through activities, education, and student led initiatives, REACH will provide the opportunity for teens to research, develop and engage in mental health awareness through service projects. Participants will reach out to peers, friends, family members, and the broader community to strengthen connections and work together to spread kindness. Part of our time will be spent learning about other service projects and student action in order to educate and inspire us in our own projects.

SOAR Club
2025-01-30 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-02-06 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-02-13 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-02-20 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-02-27 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-03-06 18:30 - 19:30 | PA
SOAR Club provides young men and nonbinary friends across Centre County an opportunity to connect and build leadership and resiliency skills through acts of service.

GROW Club
2025-02-03 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-02-17 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-03-17 17:30 - 18:30 | PA
Jana Marie Foundation’s GROW program is designed to spark conversations about mental wellness and personal growth to students in grades 4 and 5. Through the use of children’s books and engaging activities, the sessions will share themes and messages around building self-confidence, developing positive relationships, and expressing emotions in ways that are creative and healthy.

Public Virtual QPR Training
2025-02-05 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-02-20 10:00 - 11:30 | PA
Virtual suicide prevention training. QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer — the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide.
Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. Each year thousands of Americans, like you, are saying “Yes” to saving the life of a friend, colleague, sibling, or neighbor.
KEY COMPONENTS COVERED IN TRAINING:

How to Question, Persuade and Refer someone who may be suicidal
How to get help for yourself or learn more about preventing suicide
The common causes of suicidal behavior
The warning signs of suicide
How to get help for someone in crisis

Free to attend. Pre-registration is required: janamariefoundation.org/take-a-course
Generously sponsored by Mount Nittany Health

Compassion Resilience for Parents and Caregivers
2025-02-06 12:15 - 13:15 | Schlow Library
Join Schlow Library in partnership with the Jana Marie Foundation for a lunch-and-learn discussion, Compassion Resilience for Parents and Caregivers. In each weekly session, we will explore the role of compassion in parenting, especially how to build compassion resilience in the face of the inevitable fatigue that comes from round-the-clock caregiving and caretaking.
When: Thursdays beginning January 9 and running through February 27, 2025 @ 12:15-1:45 PM
Where: The Sunroom, 2nd floor, Schlow Library
Please bring a lunch to enjoy!
Register here
Questions? Please contact Christine Hughes at Jana Marie Foundation (814) 954-5920 or christine@janamariefoundation.org

Side-by-Side Parent Retreat
2025-02-08 08:45 - 13:00 | PA
Celebrate and explore your mother-daughter relationship! Through creative expression, engaging activities and a variety of communication tools that emphasize the magic of connection, participants will have the opportunity to enhance their relationship, create long-lasting memories and find a deeper understanding for one another.
Audience: Middle School Girls & Their Parents
Location Info Coming Soon!

Compassion Resilience for Parents and Caregivers
2025-02-13 12:15 - 13:15, 2025-02-20 12:15 - 13:15, 2025-02-27 12:15 - 13:15 | Schlow Library
oin Schlow Library in partnership with the Jana Marie Foundation for a lunch-and-learn discussion, Compassion Resilience for Parents and Caregivers. In each weekly session, we will explore the role of compassion in parenting, especially how to build compassion resilience in the face of the inevitable fatigue that comes from round-the-clock caregiving and caretaking.
When: Thursdays beginning January 9 and running through February 27, 2025 @ 12:15-1:15 PM
Where: The Sunroom, 2nd floor, Schlow Library
Please bring a lunch to enjoy!
Register here
Questions? Please contact Christine Hughes at Jana Marie Foundation (814) 954-5920 or christine@janamariefoundation.org

CALM Training
2025-02-18 15:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
CALM is a practical intervention to increase the time and distance between individuals at risk of suicide and the most common and lethal methods of suicide, particularly firearms. The oldest and most widely-used training on lethal means safety, CALM teaches why means matter and equips individuals with tools to intervene effectively with those at risk for suicide both upstream – before a crisis hits – as well as in times of crisis. Versions are available for both clinicians and non-clinicians.

Virtual Public QPR Training
2025-03-12 17:00 - 18:30 | PA

Compassion Resilience for Parents and Caregivers
2025-03-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Jana Marie Foundation, 432 Rolling Ridge Drive, Suite 3, State College, PA, 16801, United States
During Compassion Resilience we will explore the role of compassion in parenting, especially how to build compassion resilience in the face of the inevitable fatigue that comes from round-the-clock caregiving and care taking.
