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Suicide Postvention Best Practices
Dr. Alex Karydi sat down with our CEO to instruct about suicide postvention best practices. Topics covered include: Suicide Prevention...
Mar 25, 2022


Improving Emotional Wellness for Educators
On March 15, 2022 Sharpen in collaboration with Stop-It Solutions led a 2 hour workshop for 123 school nurses and social workers ...
Mar 17, 2022


STOPit and Sharpen: Trauma-Informed Technology for Schools
Sharpen and STOPit anonymous incident reporting and safety technology partnered to present in March 2022 to New Mexico Department of...
Mar 14, 2022


Holiday Stress Toolkit
We know these times are particularly stressful for individuals and families and have released a free holiday stress toolkit with 20 tips...
Dec 17, 2021


Free emotional wellness toolkit for educators
In response to the growing need to support emotional wellbeing, as outlined in the recent guidance from US Department of Education,...
Nov 1, 2021


Sharpen Answers US Dept of ED Guidelines
Resiliency Technologies releases a white paper in response to the US Department of Education Guidelines for School Mental Health.
Oct 20, 2021


Eating Disorders Spike
Sharpen CEO, Robyn Hussa Farrell outlines 6 factors that are contributing to a spike in eating disorders cases and how you can help...
Jul 31, 2021


Building resilience through trauma-informed frameworks
Sharpen and our partners at United Way of the Piedmont are honored to be presenters at the 2021 Southeastern School Behavioral Health...
Apr 15, 2021


Help Kids Manage Grief
Dr. Alex Karydi provides expertise and guidance for helping children & teens manage grief and loss.
Mar 2, 2021


Suicide Prevention Resources for Schools / Communities
For 4 years I have led a suicide prevention task force for our region in the upstate of South Carolina and wanted to share free resources...
Feb 25, 2021


Building Protective Factors shared between Trauma, Suicide & Substance Use Prevention Research
Resiliency is created when we improve shared protective factors between suicide, substance use, eating disorder and trauma research.
Jan 3, 2021


Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris releases 400+ page study on ACEs
New report provides clear and equitable response solutions, models, and best practices to be replicated or tailored to serve community needs
Dec 18, 2020


How Relational Health Can Prevent Toxic Stress
Relationships are vital to your health and can prevent toxic stress.
Dec 7, 2020


Holiday Stress Management Guidebook
This holiday is a particularly difficult season. Sharpen's CEO, Robyn Hussa Farrell, put together this guidebook so individuals have...
Dec 4, 2020


Suicide Prevention
Suicide prevention models at-a-glance
Sep 9, 2020


Monthly relaxation technique #21 - Cultivating Patience
In a time of COVID and confinement, we wanted to share a post about patience, featuring three of our favorite videos: 1. Dr. Jon...
May 31, 2020


Monthly relaxation technique #20 - The Science of Happiness (5 curated TED Talks)
Below, we have curated five TED Talks that focus on happiness and optimism: 1. In this TED Talk, Dan Gilbert, the author of Stumbling on...
Apr 30, 2020


White Paper on Improving Emotional and Mental Health Literacy in School
Sharpen CEO Releases White Paper on Improving Social, Emotional and Mental Health Literacy in School
Apr 28, 2020


Free Stress Management Videos from Sharpen
For over 25 years our co-Founder has taught mindfulness based stress reduction and yoga techniques and written curricula for treatment...
Apr 21, 2020


National Youth Violence Prevention Week
Sharpen commends the organization, “Students Against Violence Everywhere” for promoting National Youth Violence Prevention Week. SAVE’s...
Apr 8, 2020
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