Helping at risk, runaway and homeless youth foster self reliance...

Northwest Youth Services

Provide support, education and advocacy for all who are affected by Mental Illness.

NAMIWhatcom.org

National Alliance on Mental Illness

Compiled by the Family Resource Center (FRC) in Bellingham Public Schools

A Directory of Educational Opportunities Offered Throughout the Community

Suicide Prevention Training focusing on peers and mentors

Making A Difference - Helping Other People Everywhere

Parenting is no easy task. In a world of conflicting advice and never-ending demands on our time, it can seem next to impossible for families to know what’s best for their children. The parenting coaches at Brigid Collins are here to help! 

Contact: 360.734.4616

Allies is a program Janet Meddick developed to help elementary students learn how to better deal with conflict in their relationships, and how to stop bullying by standing up for themselves and others.

Groups meet to identify social problems, discuss various solutions, then create and practice role-playing scenarios to share with others.

Students learn to use an assertive body stance, voice, and words so they can respond to stressful and emotional situations with confidence and kindness.

JanetMeddick@gmail.com    JanetMeddick.com

teaching social and emotional learning

Strengthening Families™ is a research-informed approach to increase family strengths, enhance child development and reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect. 

Linda DuBois. linda.dubois@bellinghamschools.org

Our Treehouse is the only organization in Whatcom County that provides support services to children, teens and families who are grieving over the death of a parent, grandparent, child or other immediate family member. We rely on our volunteers and facilitators (volunteers who have undergone Our Treehouse's grief training) to run events and support programs for bereaved families. We host fundraising events, dinners and social events for children, teens and parents and facilitate support groups. Our goal is to provide children, teens and families with a comfortable, safe and stress-free environment. We want to connect them with other children, teens and parents who have experienced similar losses, who understand what they are going through; while providing them with the counseling and support of specially trained facilitators.

Contact: Amy.kashiwa@gmail.com

This mission of the Whatcom Prevention Coalition is to build safe and healthy communities by providing leadership, promoting prevention, and building partnerships that mobilize youth, families, and neighborhoods to reduce substance abuse and other destructive behaviors among youth and the community.

Meghan Lever BA CDP, youth counselor, is available to facilitate discussion and education in a variety of issues related to substance use and prevention. These discussions can be tailored to your needs and presented to a variety of audiences including students, parents, professionals and other community members. Please contact Meghan with questions or suggestions for how we can connect with your community.

Phone: 360.676.2187 ex: 4208 Email: meghanl@ccsww.org

How to have difficutl conversations with your teen about relationaships, sexuality.  Planned Parenthood provides health services, education programs and information resources to teens about relationships, sexuality and sexual health. Teens can visit our health centers for confidential care including access to birth control and pregnancy and STD testing.

tracy.dahlstedt@mbpp.org 

A parent led program since 1988, which provides emotional peer support and up to date resource information to families of children ages birth to 21 with developmental disabilities, delays and ongoing healthcare needs.

Our program provides opportunities to connect to a wide variety of parents in our community through a bi -monthly newsletter, events for families and siblings, parent workshops and one to one parent connections called Parent Matches with our team of trained volunteer Helping Parents.  We also offer supports for Latino families in our community. For more information about our program or to request support please contact our office at (360)255-2056 or info@p2pwhatcom.org

We also have a Facebook page and a website www.p2pwhatcom.org

WFCN focuses on community organizing at both the neighborhood and county-wide level. We bring together residents and key leaders to solve problems and build on existing community strengths, using the principles of asset-based community development and family support. We believe healthy and well-connected communities are necessary to support healthy families and healthy families are the foundation of a healthy community. The Whatcom Family & Community Network strives through its partnerships to engage the broad diversity of children, youth, and families in improving their community.

The YMCA loves to pair the two together.  A healhty mind and body work simultaneously.  those teems using the tutoriing services are guaranteed a freee membership for the month.   

TDiehl@WhatcomYMCA.org   Tracy Diehl