Program areas at Grant Halliburton Foundation
Educational outreach: our Foundation's education program includes presentations and programs for youth and adults, providing mental health/suicide prevention awareness and education. Our comprehensive approach targets students, faculty, and parents with evidence-based programs and services built on six key pillars: student education, adult training, mental health awareness, peer-to-peer, human support services, and research tracking and measurement. Our outreach extends to mental health resource navigation services through our here for Texas mental health navigation line. In 2021, our programs reached approximately 30,000 people.
I am here coalition was formed by Grant Halliburton Foundation in 2009 to draw together stakeholders in adolescent mental health. It's mission is to strengthen the network of mental health resources for teens in north Texas. The coalition works to identify and address critical issues in the mental health community. Recent initiatives include firearms safety and addressing the mental health resource disparities that exist in southern dallas.
"when life hands you teenagers" is an adolescent mental health conference presented annually by the Foundation for parents, teachers, mental health professionals, and people who work with youth, to educate them about adolescent mental health issues. Annual attendance is approximately 350 people.
In addition to the three main programs disclosed in part iii 4a, 4b and 4c, the Foundation sponsors the following program services: mental health navigation line, peer support and here for Texas.