Support

ON-ISLAND SUPPORT

PSS Mental Health & Wellness - Office of Student & Support Services

Website: https://cnmipss.org/office-student-and-support-services

Tel #: (670) 237-3061

Project HALIGI AWARE (Healthy, Affirming, Locally-Inclusive Grant Initiative for Advancing Awareness and Resilience in Education) aims to increase mental health awareness and access to care through establishing the foundational and preventative layers of a multi-tiered system. Haligi is the foundation pillar of the indigenous Latte Stone homes and similarly, this project will connect home and community to schools and create a positive culture for universal student accessibility.

The goals of Project HALIGI AWARE are to:

Develop a sustainable infrastructure through improved collaborative partnerships utilizing a multitiered approach to awareness, education, intervention, & prevention
Adopt evidenced-based behavioral health strategies to improve access to sustainable services, adopt early identification & warning system measures, & coordinated referral processes
Equip education professionals with the tools necessary to increase awareness, recognize, & respond to behavioral & mental health issues among students
Expand home & community awareness through outreach & engagement to promote enhanced cultural & linguistic responsive public awareness on positive mental health, protective factors, resilience, prevention, advocacy, & access to resources, and
Equip school-aged youth to develop sustainable skills & enhance peer support opportunities that promote resilient prosocial behaviors & prevention engagement.

CHCC - Behavioral Health

Hours

Monday-Friday 7:30AM-4:30PM

Location

TSL Plaza, Garapan - 2nd Floor

Phone

(670)323-6560/1

Behavioral health (also known as mental health) involves how we think, feel, and behave, and impacts how we manage stress and relate to others. At every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood, mental health is essential to well-being. There are many factors that influence well-being. Our physical and mental health, social and physical environment, and even cultural and spiritual influences play a role in our overall function, life satisfaction, and happiness.

As we move through life, our mental health can vary from optimum to poor depending on our internal coping abilities as well as external surroundings, such as stressors and supports. Having optimum mental health is feeling happy and having a well-balanced life, and the ability to manage stress when it does occur. Poor mental health, on the other hand, is the inability to cope with stress, significant changes in your thoughts, feelings, and behavior, and the possible development of mental health conditions.

Having adequate support can improve mental health. By helping people develop skills to handle stress and understand the root of unhealthy behaviors, people can make positive changes in order to live healthy, fulfilling lives and improve well-being.

The Community Guidance Center (CGC) (further details on CGC listed below) is the primary provider of mental and behavioral health services in the CNMI, offering comprehensive services for children, adolescents, adults, and elderly people living with emotional, behavioral, or substance abuse-related issues. If you or someone you know is experiencing mental health difficulties, please reach out to your CGC familia at the CHCC. We are here to help.

Community Guidance Center

(CHCC-CGC)

Website: http://www.chcc.gov.mp/

Tel #: (670) 323-6560

E-Mail: cgcsystemsofcare@gmail.com

The Community Guidance Center is the primary provider of mental health and substance abuse services for all individuals residing in the CNMI. It incorporates all outpatient mental health services and administers all Federal health programs in the CNMI related to mental health and substance abuse, as well as all other publicly funded mental health services.

It is the vision of the Community Guidance Center to ensure that every individual who has made the CNMI their home may be able to live and interact with each other in a community that is not only nurturing to its spiritual growth, psychological balance, emotional stability, and physical well-being, but at the same time fostering the development and maintenance of a cooperative and harmonious society.

C.G.C.'s Children and Youth Mental Health Services:

Healthy Transitions

The Healthy Transitions (HT) Program focuses on improving access to treatment and support services for youth and young adults, ages 16-25, who have a serious emotional disturbances or a serious mental illness. HT aims to improve emotional and behavioral health functioning so that this population of youth and young adults can maximize their potential to assume adult roles and responsibilities and lead full and productive lives.

Hours

Monday-Friday 7:30AM-4:30PM

Phone

(670) 323-1900

Systems of Care

WHO WE ARE

Systems of Care is a coordinated network of community-based services and supports that is organized to meet the challenges of children and youth with serious mental health needs and their families. Families and youth work in partnership with public and private and organizations so services and supports are effective, build on the strengths of individuals, and address each person’s cultural and linguistic needs. Systems of Care helps children, youth, and families function better at home, in school, in the community, and throughout life.

MISSION:

To promote the improvement of care and opportunity for the youth with, and at-risk of emotional/behavioral challenges through improved collaboration between and family servings groups.

VISION:

The CNMI is actively committed to a coordinated, collaborative, family-focused Systems of Care and provides for the needs and advancement of youth experiencing and youth-risk of emotional and behavioral challenges.

PROGRAMS & SERVICES:

Natural Helpers Program

Mental Health First Aid Certification

Family and Youth Mental Health Workshops

Behavioral Counseling/Therapy

Wraparound Process

Healthy Family, Healthy Communities

OFFICE HOURS:

Monday thru Friday

7:30am – 4:30pm

Marina Heights Building 1, Suite 303, Puerto Rico

(670) 664-4604

C.G.C.'s Adult Mental Health Services:

Wellness Clinic

Wellness Clinic services include the Victims of Crime Advocacy (VOCA) Program, which supports the provision of services to all victims of reported or unreported crime in the CNMI. These include victims who need counseling due to secondary trauma, domestic violence, depression, panic disorders, physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse, and other mental health issues.

Provides mental health services and support to all victims of crime and other community members experiencing mental health challenges in the CNMI.

Hours: Monday-Friday 7:30AM-4:30PM

Phone: (670) 323-4063

Location: Located in the TSL Plaza in Garapan.

Transitional Living Center/Day Program

The TLC is designed to provides programs and rehabilitation services for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness and those with disabilities to help them achieve independence.. The Primary functions of the center are to offer individually-tailored mental health care, support and education, and linkages to community resources. Client services aim to improve community and independent living through skills development, building supports, and strength-based interventions.

Hours: Monday-Friday 7:30AM-4:30PM

Phone: (670) 323-4060/4063

Location: Navy Hill on Gloria Drive

Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention Services

Garrett Lee Smith Program

The Garrett Lee Smith Youth Suicide Prevention Program (GLS YSPP) provides counseling services to youth and young adults, ages 10-24, who are having thoughts of suicide or have made a suicide attempt. The mission of this program is to reduce the incidence of suicide behaviors among CNMI youth and young adults, and increase access to appropriate prevention and intervention services. We hope that our vision of youth suicide prevention will be embraced and incorporated into the CNMI community in order to nurture and support the mental and behavioral needs of youth and young adults at risk of suicide.

Hours

Monday-Friday 7:30AM-4:30PM

Location

Alexander Realty Building, Oleai

Phone

(670)664-LIFE (5433)

(670)664-LIVE (5483)

CNMI Division of Youth Services

Ms. Vivian T. Sablan DYS Administrator

PO Box 501000 CK Saipan, MP 96950

Tel #: (670) 664-2550/2551/2591

Facsimile: (670) 664-2566

http://www.dys.gov.mp

The agency's overall mission is to help strengthen families and to promote healthy child by practicing positive parenting skills. Its focus includes educational, intervention, and preventative activities and services that provide children, youth, and families the opportunity to interact, to learn life skills, and to develop the ability to cope with challenges. The DYS has the responsibility to reduce and when possible eradicate child abuse & neglect, juvenile delinquency, youth violence, and other related social problems plaguing families. It is the vision of DYS that the "Families in the CNMI will be self-sufficient, self-reliant, and economically, socially, and culturally independent."

NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH ASSISTANCE

PEP TALK - West Side Elementary School Project

(707) 873-7862

Students at West Side Elementary School in Healdsburg, California started a free telephone hotline, leaving uplifting and inspiring messages for callers from around the world. Callers can also choose to hear words of encouragement and life advice, a pep talk from kindergarteners, kids laughing with delight or encouragement in Spanish, the instructions continue.

The young students leave unscripted positive messages on the hotline in hopes to cheer up those who call 707-873-7862 (707-8PEPTOC).

The Trevor Project

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/

The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and mental health organization for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning) young people.

Trans-Lifeline

https://translifeline.org/

Mission

Trans Lifeline connects trans people to the community support and resources we need to survive and thrive.

Vision

We envision a world where trans people have the connection, economic security, and care everyone needs and deserves – free of prisons and police.

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

https://988lifeline.org/

The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is a leader in suicide prevention and mental health crisis care. Since its inception, the Lifeline has engaged in a variety of initiatives to improve crisis services and advance suicide prevention for all, including innovative public messaging, best practices in mental health, and groundbreaking partnerships.

The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and Vibrant Emotional Health launched the Lifeline on January 1, 2005. Vibrant Emotional Health, the administrator of the grant, works with its partners, the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD), National Council for Behavioral Health, and others, to manage the project, along with Living Works, Inc., an internationally respected organization specializing in suicide intervention skills training.

The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is independently evaluated by a federally-funded investigation team from Columbia University’s Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene. The Lifeline receives ongoing consultation and guidance from national suicide prevention experts, consumer advocates, and other stakeholders through the Lifeline’s Steering Committee, Consumer/Survivor Committee, and Standards, Training and Practices Committee.

National Domestic Violence Hotline

https://www.thehotline.org/

24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, the National Domestic Violence Hotline provides essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence so they can live their lives free of abuse.

Contacts to The Hotline can expect highly-trained, expert advocates to offer free, confidential, and compassionate support, crisis intervention information, education, and referral services in over 200 languages.

Vision:

We envision a world where all relationships are positive, healthy, and free from violence.

Mission Statement:

We answer the call to support and shift power back to those affected by relationship abuse.

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