Youth Engagement Services Tacoma (YES-Tacoma) is happy to announce we will be starting “Girl Talk Youth Forum” (GTYF).  GTYF is a free 4 week virtual 60- minute therapy group for Tacoma Public Schools middle and high school teen girls, providing a safe space to find and give support with other teens while discussing relevant topics that matter to you.

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Participants will be eligible to win a pair of Apple AirPods.
Stay tuned for more summer supports from the YES Team.

Girl Talk Youth Forum Flyer

Sessions will start on Monday, July 27^th so we encourage early registration.

GTYF Sessions Overview:

Session 1:  Introduction and creating group expectations

• Facilitator and group members will engage in introduction process utilizing ice breaker activity
• Facilitator will engage the youth in activity to establish group rules, expectations and norms

Session 2: What do mental health symptoms look like in teens?

• Psychoeducation related to common mental health symptoms among adolescents
• Facilitator will engage youth in guided therapeutic group conversation, fostering a safe space for students to express and share their experiences with behavioral health symptoms

Session 3: What are coping skills?

• Youth will have the opportunity to begin to identify their own coping skills and begin to be able to talk about the effects and the coping skills
• Facilitator will provide psychoeducation around the benefits of establishing healthy coping strategies (grounding techniques, deep breathing exercises, cognitive behavioral health therapy coping strategies)
• Facilitator will provide psychoeducation around the difference between maladaptive coping techniques and healthy coping strategies

Session 4: Interpersonal Relationships

• Group session will cover the topics of social media, peer relationships, bullying and the impacts they have on adolescent behavioral health
• Youth will have the opportunity to process the impacts that COVID-19 has had on peer relationships and social skills

For questions and more information contact YES Clinician, Kianna Carter

Phone:253-381-9010

Email: kacarter@multicare.org