Red Oak Behavioral Health

June's SEL Tip from Joli Oliver, Red Oak's Manager of Social Emotional Learning!

Strengths Spotlight: Shine Your Light! Everyone has unique strengths that make a difference—at school, at work, and in our communities. Let’s take a moment to celebrate what makes you awesome!

Try This:
- List 5 strengths you bring to your classroom, team, or community.
- Reflect: How do you already use these strengths to help yourself and others?
- Challenge: Choose one strength to stretch or grow even more this month!

Examples of strengths: kindness, curiosity, teamwork, creativity, patience, listening, problem-solving, courage, honesty, flexibility, leadership

As part of Pride Month, we are sharing resources to support LGBTQ+ youth. This guide is a helpful starting point to learn more about supporting Trans and Nonbinary young people in your life, and includes:

-The difference between s*x and gender
-Basics of gender — identity, expression, and perception
-Forms of address that show respect (names, pronouns, honorifics)
-Helpful tips to increase understanding
-Common mistakes and what to do if you’ve made one

Learn more here:

2024 Guide to Being an Ally to Trans and Nonbinary Young People The first step to becoming an ally to transgender and nonbinary people is to learn more; thank you for taking that step with us!

Make your voice heard! Trailhead Community Health Foundation of Greater Akron has extended their survey until June 30. Survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/69LB9WC

Healthier Together. Stronger Together.
Your voice guides our work

Trailhead Community Health Foundation was created to invest in the health and well-being of communities across Portage, Medina, Stark, Summit, and Wayne counties. We are developing our first strategic plan and we want to hear directly from you.

This short survey takes less than five minutes to complete. Your answers will help shape how Trailhead invests in your community for years to come. The survey will be open until Wednesday, June 10.

Thank you for considering our request. Go to https://trailheadhealthfoundation.org/ or link in bio to take the survey.

On Friday we were proud to take part in United Way of Summit & Medina's Day of Service. Volunteers from Koroseal Interior Products spent the afternoon with us assembling staff thank you gifts and sorting items from our recent supply drive. Thank you to Kesia, Shayla, Keisha, Misty and Arielle for your help!

At Red Oak we have amazing staff, and we are so thankful for everyone who chooses to give their time and talents to serve on our team!

Whether you have worked here 1 year or 17 years, Happy Red Oak Anniversary to Brenda, Matthew, Renee, Milton, Nicole, and Larry!

As part of Pride Month, we are sharing resources to support LGBTQ+ youth.

Did you know that there is a crisis helpline specifically for LGBTQ+ young people? The Trevor Project operates text, phone, and chat help that is staffed with professionals who are experts in working with young q***r people in crisis. Even if you are not in need now, saving the number in your phone means that you will have it ready when you, or a young person in your life, needs help!

Sponsorships are now open for Red Oak's inaugural After School Special! Sponsoring this event is a wonderful way to support youth mental health in our community, while getting some great benefits, including an ad in the program, complementary tickets, and much more!

If you or your organization would like to sponsor this event and elevate your impact, please visit: https://redoakbh.org/donations-corporate-giving/

We had a great time with mentors and mentees at our ICARE Mentoring end of the year picnic! We celebrated another wonderful year of relationship building and community connections. Thank you to all of our mentors for your service to our community's students!

If you would like to learn more about becoming a mentor, please visit icarementoring.org.

An extra special THANK YOU to our friends at Huntington who gathered the most donations for our Client Resource Room out of any partner organization!
They managed to fill up the whole box, plus more! Thank you to Jay Schill and the team from Huntington Private Bank in Fairlawn for your generosity!