WELCOME TO THE VILLAGE!

Evaluate - Educate - Engage - Empower- Expose

FOR PARENTS, CAREGIVERS, AND ADVOCATES OF ADOLESCENT MENTAL WELL-BEING

  • Suicide is the LEADING cause of death for 13 and 14 year olds.

  • As many as 8% of today’s adolescents, have attempted suicide.

  • Completed suicides have increased by 300% over the past 3 decades.

An introduction to the mental health crisis among children and teens:

The “culture battle” influencing our adolescents increased risk of mental illness and suicide.

Although the interaction between our brain and gut has been studied for years, its complexities run deeper than initially thought. It seems that our minds are, in some part, controlled by the bacteria in our gut.

What we do!

Operation Jack’s Village focuses on comprehensive and multidimensional prevention strategies, to improve adolescent mental health and end suicide.

Our prevention strategy involves a three-pronged portfolio & operating system.

Survive, Thrive, & Soar!

•Survive includes a baseline evaluation tool & community wrap strategy to support physiological, psycho-sociological safety and self-actualization needs of adolescents.

•Thrive includes development strategies, assessment, and community level counter measures for building resilient youth & meaningful relationships.

•Soar! is a unique community education space with “Navigate IRL Prep Academy” supporting self-fulfillment and developmental needs of all secondary age students.

  • A comprehensive focus on the latest research adolescent brain function, understand risks, provide mental health risk evaluations and promote evidence-based opportunities to prevention.

  • A program designed to assess prevention through early detection, resiliency and assist parents in identifying how to help their child navigate adolescence.

  • Navigate IRL (In Real Life) Prep Academy incorporated a best practices combination of adolescent development, education, and mental wellbeing educational model. The models use project based lean six sigma, with a competency deliverable coach enabled self-directed environment; with a digital portfolio to track to success.

Operation Jack’s Village focuses on a comprehensive approach to adolescent suicide awareness and prevention.

DYSREGULATION is the abnormality or impairment in central nervous system.

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DYSREGULATION is the abnormality or impairment in central nervous system. 〰️

Psychologist - W. R. Cummings on January 5, 2020

“No matter how a child is treated for emotional dysregulation, it’s a problem that ought to be closely monitored in order to keep the child safe. There is hope for a healthy life, but it’s going to take an army of people who are willing to be intentional and helpful.”

IF YOU HAVE CONCERNS

  1. KEEP THEM SAFE, DON’T LEAVE THEM ALONE

  2. TEST, DON’T GUESS

  3. REACH OUT FOR HELP - You are not alone!

YOU are your family’s best advocate.

GET THE LATEST RESEARCH,

Children should always be treated using therapeutic interventions as well as environmental changes before medications are tried. - This could even look like a child having modifications at school, which is written in an Individualized Education Plan based on their behaviors.

Chronic Stress >

Catecholamines - produced in the adrenal glands, the brainstem & the brain >

Dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis >

overstimulated, can result in physical and/or psychiatric problems. >

Emotional Dysregulation >

Mental Health Crisis of today >