Program areas at Starr Commonwealth
Professional learningduring the 2022-2023 fiscal year, 7,920 professionals engaged with Starr's professional learning program, services, or resources. 7,398 professionals in the u.s. and globally received training on the topics of trauma, building resilience, recognizing the importance of indigenous wisdom, shifting mindset, positive youth development, private logic, mindfulness, self-care, and racial healing. Through Starr trainings and consultations, helping professionals learned effective tools for implementing trauma-informed, resilience-focused care, including ways to foster connections with the youth they serve. Starr certified 2,244 professionals as specialists, coaches, and/or trainers in trauma-informed, resilience-focused care. In a sampling of 353 participants who participated in Starr's 10 steps to create a trauma-informed resilient school course, 96% of participants rated the course as beneficial, very beneficial, or extremely beneficial, 95% of participants agreed or strongly agreed that the training would change how they worked with youth, and 94% of participants agreed or strongly agreed that they would recommend this training to others. In a sampling of 481 participants who participated in Starr's children of trauma and resilience course, 95% of participants rated the course as beneficial, very beneficial, or extremely beneficial.
School-basedstarr programming also includes the student resilience and empowerment center (srec). Srec is a county-wide, school-based behavioral health program that provides middle school students with access to social, emotional, and mental health supports that can lead to improved health and wellbeing. This immersive, half-day program builds on existing collaborations between Starr and local schools who together with the local ymca and county public mental health provider, bring a behavioral health treatment model into the school day. The program served 86 unique students: 84 youth during the academic year and 11 youth in the summer rec program. In a sampling of 36 srec program graduates, there was an increase in students' scores across items of resilience from pre to post-program with 88% indicating that the services they received helped them to deal more effectively with their problems. 88% also indicated that they were mostly or very satisfied with the amount of help they recieved and 88% indicated that if they were to seek help again, they would come back to the srec program. Of all rec staff surveyed, 100% agreed or strongly agreed that srec students presented improvements in resilience.
Community-basedduring the 2022-2023 fiscal year, 239 unique clients were served in our direct service programs: 155 clients in our behavioral health services outpatient program, 86 youth in our student resilience and empowerment center, and 2 youth in both programs. Our behavioral health program included individual and family therapy, academic supports, group therapy, school-based behavioral health services, occupational therapy, case management, along with trauma assessments and interventions. 3,302 appointments were attended of which 252 were occupational therapy sessions. The average client age was 15 years, ranging from 3 to 64 years old. Our behavioral health program provided services via in-person (1,575) and telehealth (phone or video) (1,727). Of behavioral health clients surveyed during the 2022-2023 fiscal year, 96% rated the quality of services received as good or excellent. Additionally, 98% of respondents rated that they were mostly or very satisfied with the services that they received. 98% of the respondents indicated that they either generally or definitely received the services that they wanted. Lastly, 96% rated that they were mostly or very satisfied with the amount of help that they received.