The
Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation awarded the Family Resource Center a three-year grant to implement Relapse Prevention Therapy (RPT) and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). These innovative techniques are used with a target population of adolescents with substance abuse disorders at the Recovery High School in Beverly. The program is planned and run collaboratively with NSMC Pediatric Psychiatry; NSMC Family Resource Center and the North Shore Recovery High School.
Staff training for this program began with an intensive five day silent stay at the
Insight Meditation Society.
Implementation of the programs developed for the students at the Recovery High School and their parents will begin the year 2009-2010 and will continue the following year.
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Center for Mindfulness 
The
Read Family Trust has awarded the NSMC Family Resource Center another pediatric behavioral health grant, in collaboration with Salem Public Schools.
The focus of the program will be to analyze YRBS results (youth risk behavior survey) and implement an
SOS Signs of Suicide Prevention Program with Salem High School educators, ninth grade students, and their parents.
Physician Trainings in Opiate Use and Overdose Prevention
Specialized programs, available through the Lynn OD Prevention grant, are in development and will be provided to Emergency Departments, community physicians and related providers through NSMC North Shore Children's Hospital Pediatric Grand Rounds, and through Medical Grand Rounds this Fall at the Salem and Lynn campuses at North Shore Medical Center.
Smoking Cessation Program for Danvers High School Students
A pilot smoking cessation program for high school students, in collaboration with Danvers Cares and Danvers High School, is actively being designed and is sponsored by North Shore Medical Center .
