Sound of Silence (SoS) is a mental health awareness program for middle and high school students delivered through school assemblies and community-based events in partnership with mental health and substance misuse professionals.
We work alongside each school’s principal and staff to carve each event to perfectly fit each schools’ current needs around mental health. We provide a panel of mental health and substance misuse professionals along with representation From SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) Department of Health, Crisis Response, and the leading Prevention Coalitions that represent Anne Arundel County.
We talk about target topics that can lead to mental health disorders, how to prevent self-medicating through substance misuse, suicide prevention, maintaining healthy relationships, and many more.
We want to encourage our parents to talk to their youth, to ask questions, and to know how to respond. We also provide services using each school’s Behavioral Health Facility when youth need additional help.
What do you get?
- We host a Student Session and a Parent Session (evening)
- Give out resources
- Bridge the gap between students and school-based behavioral health facility