Community Health Services Programs
Health & Wellness
The Health and Wellness Education Team has provided education and training to at-risk youth and family populations for over 20 years. Our professional and experienced educators have a passion for delivering curriculums to students to enhance their development and knowledge in healthy behaviors and relationships.
Beacon Health & Fitness
Summer Program
The summer program is designed to match all ages and abilities in an organized format. This program provides activities that challenge kids to be physically active. Our Health and Wellness educators connect with students as well as provide a nutritional snack and recipe for students to try at home. Students are also encouraged to develop skills to empower one another whether they win or lose a game.
Human Growth & Development
Program
This is an engaging program designed to educate students in grades 3rd, 4th, and 5th on puberty and the importance of hygiene. The curriculum also provides information on exercise and nutrition and discusses personal space and how to respect peer differences.
CATCH My Breath Program
Catch my breath is a peer-reviewed, evidence-based youth vaping prevention program developed by the University of Texas at Houston. Students will learn about addictions as a disease of the brain and the risks and consequences of e-cigarettes and other tobacco products.
Digital Citizenship Program
This program empowers students to responsibly use the everyday digital tools that allow for creation and communication. Students are challenged to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibility in our digital world.
between healthcare organizations and community members. Through provider education, community outreach, and healthcare navigation support, Beacon Community Impact is committed to fostering trust and improving the healthcare experience across our service area.
Draw the Line/ Respect the Line Program
This program helps youth develop personal sexual limits and practice the skills
needed to maintain those limits when challenged. Draw the Line/Respect the
Line provides students with the knowledge and skills critical to
making decisions. The program utilizes strategies to manage complex
situations around relationships, personal health, effective communication,
abstinence, and prevention of teen pregnancy, and sexually transmitted
infections & HIV.
Layperson Naloxone Administration Testing (NARCAN)
(NARCAN) course expands on the Opioid Public Health Crisis course and will teach adults how to recognize the signs of an opioid overdose and administer the opioid overdose reversal drug Naloxone.
QPR Training
QPR is offered to high school students, and stands for Question, Persuade, Refer – the three simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. Just as the people trained in CPR help save thousands of lives each year, students trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to refer someone for help. Teenagers are also taught the importance of getting adults involved when there is a suicide crisis.
This is Not about Drugs Program
In this course we will learn about the disease of addiction by looking at how the brain is affected by substances such as drugs and alcohol and how the disease of addiction develops.
Community Partners
Community partners within this priority represent a wide range of programming aimed at improving the health of mothers and their children. Below is a list of our current partners with details on the programming they offer.
- Provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. 2020 Partner
- Gentlemen and Scholars, Inc. is a community based organization geared towards making youth in the community the best versions of themselves. They do this
- The SAVE Program will mentor two children all year round at Navarre, Coquillard, and Monroe elementary schools. Mentor and mentee will meet in person
- The Head Start program provides the following, but not limited to, for low income families: -Early education and kindergarten preparedness -Parent engagement & education
- Imani Unidad seeks to help marginalized members of the South Bend and Elkhart communities to improve their social, mental and emotional well-being through counseling,
- Awareness and Education: MHAM host events to promote education on a variety of mental health issues that affect the community. MHAM hopes to reduce
- Provides comprehensive, compassionate and affordable full scope family medicine and whole person care for the LGBTQ+ community as well as those who have limited
- PFC-SJC is a collaboration among youth-serving agencies in St. Joseph county that helps identify youth with emotional or behavioral health issues earlier, gets them
- Co-Parenting for Successful Kids This program helps parents develop plans for respectful, responsive and responsible co-parenting. The program is designed for separating, divorcing or
- Reins of Life, Inc. (ROL) promotes an inclusive environment for people of all walks of life, ages and abilities. ROL mission is to improve
- RiverBend Cancer Services improves the quality of life of cancer survivors and their families in our community through helpful advocacy, hopeful support and innovative
- Take Ten’s mission is to reduce youth violence by teaching skills to peacefully resolve conflict; that challenge is now expanding to teach these skills
- The Youth and Family Program seeks to connect youth with trained staff and volunteer adult facilitators through support groups, social events, enrichment opportunities, and
- United Health Services promotes the vitality of individual lives through education, direct services, and advocacy. Committed to the health of our community, we deliver
Beacon Community Impact Programs
In addition to our externally funded community partners, Beacon Community Impact provides the following programming within our Healthy Mind Priority:
- A program for Grades 5 and 6, Digital Citizenship offers guidance on the appropriate use of the internet and digital tools. It is Common Sense
- Students of the South Bend School Corporation receive education on healthy and unhealthy relationships, setting and respecting boundaries and good decision-making practices in relation
- Delivered in the local school system, students receive coaching on how to succeed in middle school and education on how to be a good
- Provides classes on child development to increase positive engagement between caregivers and their children.
- The PATHS program aims to facilitate students in finding and utilizing positive, nonviolent solutions to social problems.
- Middle school students in Elkhart County will receive a risk avoidance curriculum that emphasizes emotional health, setting boundaries, and the consequences of risky behavior
- Educates high school students and teachers about the warning signs of suicide and how to respond effectively in suicide emergencies.
- ROSE is a program that is designed to give pregnant women the skills and information that they need to lower their risk of postpartum