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The Resilience Academy offers programmes for secondary school students aimed at equipping them with emotional resilience tools.
Skills training programmes aim to increase protective factors such as coping skills, problem-solving, decision-making, and cognitive skills. While these programmes don’t directly target suicide, by targeting risk factors and giving youth important skills, the goal is to prevent the development of suicidal behaviour. We aim to equip young people with the skills and knowledge to support themselves not just now but long into the future.
Key Aims:
Enhancing protective factors,
Developing coping skills,
Increasing self-efficacy,
Increase awareness of support,
Encouraging help-seeking behaviour,
Reducing Stigma
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Applications for the Resilience Academy 2024/25 are now open!
First, please complete our school consent form.
The school consent form must be completed by the school principal before the Resilience Academy can deliver a course to your school.
Then, to enrol your school, please complete the relevant booking form below:
New: Updated Road to Resilience Programme
We are delighted announce that our new and improved version of the Road to Resilience Programme is available now!
The programme is composed of 6 components – 2 Sessions for the Road to Resilience Facilitator and 4 Modules for participants.
The programme is delivered by you, the Road to Resilience Facilitator.
There are pre-recorded opening and closing videos by a Pieta Facilitator, group discussions and activities throughout as well as activities for participants in their Participants Workbook.
You will be supported throughout by your designated Pieta Facilitator, who will contact you directly after enrolment.
Each module is designed to be delivered within 40 minutes however, activity and discussion times are easily extended if you have more time.
Signposting to helpful services are included for all topics covered throughout the programme.
The Road to Resilience Programme is delivered over four modules:
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Facilitator Support
The Road to Resilience Programme includes a session, ‘Nurturing Your Resilience’, which incorporates both signposting and wellbeing interventions. This presentation is delivered by Pieta’s Clinical Team and is available on the Road to Resilience online portal.
Before delivering the Road to Resilience Programme to participants, facilitators receive all necessary content, materials and contact details for their designated Pieta Facilitator.
The Pieta Facilitators are available to support throughout the delivery of the programme.
Building Resilience workshop
Building Resilience is a 35-minute standalone workshop for teens where we share six ways for young people to build their resilience.
During this workshop, we share the services and supports that are available to teens and give the participants an insight into the work we do in the Resilience Academy.
What is Covered in the workshop?
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After registration, a Pieta facilitator will contact you directly. You will receive a link to our Resilience Academy portal where you can access the workshop and download:
A recorded presentation from Pieta Facilitators
Worksheets for the participants
Facilitators information booklet
The Pieta Facilitator will be available to support you while delivering the workshop.
Background
The National Suicide Research Foundation (2017) has declared that the roll-out of evidence-based mental health awareness programmes in Irish schools should be undertaken as a matter of priority in order to develop mental health literacy, promote positive mental health, and prevent suicide in adolescents.
The Resilience Academy offers such programmes.
The Resilience Academy was originally developed in response to a 163% increase in people under the age of 18 presenting due to suicide or self-harm between 2011 and 2016 (Pieta House, 2016).
Resilience Academy programmes are in line with recommendations in relation to the development of school-based suicide prevention programmes (Surgenor, Quinn, & Hughes, 2016). In addition, the content was informed by in-house psychotherapists, interviews with school staff, focus groups with students, and input from industry experts in areas such as body image, cyberbullying, occupational stress, and LGBTQIA+ issues.
Service Demands
This is a demand-led service, meaning that schools request our Resilience Academy programmes. Schools are the experts in issues that affect their students – they understand the importance of mental health education for young people – however, many are not in the position to facilitate this type of education in-house.
How are we funding the Resilience Academy?
The roll-out of the Resilience Academy is reliant on donations and contributions from voluntary sources. We are asking schools that are receiving the Resilience Academy to consider supporting us with a fundraiser or donation. This will allow us to sustain the Resilience Academy and reach more students.