INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — May is Mental Health Awareness month, and a local program is helping young people care for their own mental health or help their peers in crisis.
It’s called Teen Responders. Travis Bannon is the program director – he joined Daybreak Saturday morning to talk about this.
“Coming off the pandemic, we were seeing students really struggle with their own mental health, but also care for their friends, and that burden,” he said. “The workshops have been vital. It gives them tools to not only care for themselves but care for a friend,” said Bannon
He says so far, the program has helped 750 teens and an additional 500 parents. Bannon also says they set up at local high schools and hand out information in Indiana.
Nola Boyle, a Teen Responders grad, came along with Bannon, speaking about how the program helped change her life.
“The program helped me realize how rough a time I was going through. I remember sitting there and seeing up on the board, these are the signs that someone is going through a crisis, and I was looking at them, and I was realizing that I was displaying all of those symptoms.”
For more information on this, you can find that here.