Healthy Living Skills

About

HLS helps participants recognize their triggers, learn skills, and overcome challenges to make more desirable choices.

Content Covered in HLS Groups

• · Staying grounded in the present
• · Learning to manage strong feelings
• · Identifying triggers
• · Calming the body’s stress response especially in response to triggers
• · Modifying extreme responses and black and white thinking in work, school, family and relationships
• · Understanding where one’s own responsibility begins and ends
• · Learning to accept grief
• · Understanding the power of forgiveness

HLS Offers

• · Small Groups
• · Trained Facilitators
• · Community Based Locations
• · 7 sessions/1.5 hours each
• · One Individual Session [Post Assessment]
• · Invitation to participate in research study
• · No cost to participants

HLS groups are currently offered at

• · Kalamazoo County Jail
• · Kalamazoo Probation
• · Enhancement Program (KPEP) ·Substance abuse treatment facilities
• · YWCA Domestic Abuse Shelter