TEEN HALF-DAY HANGOUT w/Samaritans!

It's a half-day for RPS Teens, which means TEENS (Grades 7-12) TAKEOVER THE THIRD FLOOR! Join us for pizza, drinks, video games, board games, puzzles, or just hang-out with your friends!! This edition of Half-Day Hangout is sponsored in whole or in part by a generous grant award received from the Library Initiative for Teens and Tweens (LITT).

We will be joined by the Samaritans organization, which has provided suicide prevention services for fifty years in the greater Boston area through a 24/7 hotline, grief support and educational workshops. Our workshops are tailored to the populations they serve by educators and mental health clinicians.  They discuss the risk factors and stressors that negatively impact mental health, they help trainees to improve active listening skills to support peers who are struggling, and they educate on the importance of self-care and communal support systems.  For youth, they additionally address the need to find a trusted adult and how to do this. These trainings are developed in accordance with best practices based on formal research."