Teens for Healthy Youth (THY) educated their peers about healthy ways to manage stress during December by sharing their THY Coping With Exam Stress Fact Card and making Instagram postings. THY acknowledges that December can be stressful for teens who take midterm and final exams which may put them at risk for substance use, depression, and anxiety. To watch THY at Bluffton High talk to their peers about healthy ways to cope with stress click here.
THY also gave teachers and staff a fact card that lists common stressors for educators and positive tips for managing stress. THY is aware that stress can lead to unhealthy behaviors and hope that sharing helpful and healthy ways to manage stress will keep their peers, school educators, and staff healthy during the stressful holiday season and exam time. Providing information on managing stress in healthy ways is an activity in LCAHY’s 12-month action plan under Strategy One, Providing Information, of the Seven Strategies of Change.
Students at Bluffton High display the Coping with Exams Fact Card they received from members of THY.
THY Hilton Head Island also distributed the THY Stress Fact Card to teens in their school to help them deal with stress in positive ways.
Members of THY at Hilton Head Christian Academy developed Instagram posts about stress and final exams to share on their schools IG account and THY IG account.
THY distributed the THY Coping with Exam Stress Fact Card to their peers during final exam review week.
THY gave teachers and staff a fact card that listed common stressors for educators and a list of healthy habits to manage stress.
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