Student Leadership in Action
Coping & Self-Care
Exhaling The Pressure Presentation
The Contra Costa County Office of Education Youth Mental Health Coalition presented this interactive workshop at the Teens Tackle Tobacco Conference at UC Berkeley in 2025. This workshop explores how stress and mental health challenges can lead teens toward substance use.
Through peer-to-peer engagement, Coalition members helped students identify healthy versus unhealthy coping mechanisms and shared practical stress management techniques.
Mental Health Awareness
Wellness Together: Talking About Mental Health
This peer-created and peer-led training empowers students to understand mental health, recognize warning signs, and support themselves and others.
Developed and presented by students for students, it addresses breaking down stigma around mental health conditions, identifying barriers to treatment, self-care strategies, and suicide prevention. This training equips peers with practical communication skills for approaching someone in distress and connecting them with resources.
Suicide Prevention
National Suicide Prevention Month
This peer-created and peer-led presentation raises awareness about suicide prevention and equips students with tools to support themselves and others.
Developed and presented by students, it covers critical statistics, V-A-R- method (Validate, Appreciate, Refer) for helping someone in crisis, and practical coping strategies including creating safe spaces, building healthy connections, and activities like journaling, meditation, and spending time outdoors.
Substance Use Awareness
