#Tools4Resilience is a virtual education series of one-hour presentations on a variety of topics intended to help people build their resilience and learn strategies for self-care.
Tools4Resilience 2025 – Child Attachment – May 6
An in-depth look at attachment from pregnancy to the teenage years,
Tools4Resilience 2025 – Autism, the Latest Research – May 7
Autism: The latest research
Tools4Resilience 2025 – A Brief History of Mental Health – May13
A Brief History of Mental Health: Looking at humanity, mistakes, mishaps and occasional breakthroughs
Tools4Resilience 2025 – Stomp Out Stigma – May 14
Stomp Out Stigma: Examining the stigma barriers that are created in language, actions, and media that prevent people from seeking help with mental health challenges
Tools4Resilience 2025 – Friendly Approach – May 20
The Friendly Approach: Improving communication in the workplace by examining how we greet people, boundaries, answering the phone, maintaining calm for calls or face-to-face encounters
Tools4Resilience 2025 – Creating and Keeping Positivity – May21
Creating and Keeping Positivity: How to create, maintain and foster that engaging atmosphere at work and home
Tools4Resilience 2025 – What Every Child Needs for Good Mental Health – May 27
What every child needs for good mental health
Tools4Resilience 2025 – How to Keep your Devices Safe – May 28
How to keep your devices safe
May 1: Social Media and Mental Health
Community Services Trooper Corey Hebner from the Gaylord Michigan State Police Post will talk about social media and staying safe online.
May 7: Protecting Yourself Online
IT experts will share tips for phone and tablet security, protecting your privacy, and identity.
May 8: Stories of Hope & Recovery: Lessons from Lived Experience
Members of Petoskey Club, New Horizons Clubhouse, Traverse House, and Club Cadillac will share their experiences and advice about living with mental health challenges and dealing with stigma.
May 14: There is No Expiration Date on Grief
Grief can reach out and grab you when you least expect it. There is no timetable or instruction book for dealing with grief but there are ways you can help care for yourself.
May 15: Somewhere Over the Rainbow: In Search of Health, Humor and Happiness
Learn how to build a personalized set of coping tools in handling stress.
May 21: Get Wise and Energize Your Eating
Refresh your healthy eating choices and learn about new trends.
May 22: Practical Tools to Help Children and Adolescents with Complex Needs
Learn about three principles (connecting, correcting, empowering) to bring healing and caring help to children who have experienced adversity, early harm, toxic stress, and/or trauma.
May 28: Finding Clarity to Navigate Multicultural Environments
Learn about the transformative process of becoming more adept in cross-cultural situations.
May 29: Managing Stress
Learn tips and tools to help deal with everyday stress.
May 4: Letting go of the heavy backpack: working through difficult situations
Learn how to communicate in a positive way to help others. Learn techniques how to handle situations where people might become angry, or behaviors escalate.
May 9: Navigating conflict resolution.
Skills and tips to practice to positively and constructively communicate with people in your work or personal life.
May 11: A DOSE of Life.
Increase and balance your happy hormones to become more resilient by taking control and living your life!
May 16: Developing cultural intelligence.
Gain an inside view of individual bias to increase understanding and for personal development.
May 18: Strong foundation, bright futures: building a healthy tomorrow.
An overview of the parent-infant relationship and its impact on mental health, wellbeing, and resiliency.
May 23: Trying to keep yourself safe online.
A roundtable discussion on ways to thwart common techniques scammers use to steal our financial and personal data.
May 25: Health is our wealth.
Choices to holistically integrate your physical and mental health in order to achieve optimal health. Techniques to advocate for yourself with a primary care provider, food as medicine, and more!