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Understanding Mental Wellness

Free Mental Health Curriculum


Trusted By 60,000+ Educators Across North America

Interactive Lessons for Middle & High School Students

EVERFI’s Understanding Mental Wellness is the first comprehensive, no-cost digital program designed to help educators foster mental health in their classrooms and equip students with lifelong mental wellness skills. The 5 self-paced digital lessons can be easily integrated into any classroom setting.

  • Self Awareness
  • Self Management
  • Relationship Skills
  • Social Awareness
  • Responsible Decision-Making

Preparing Students for Mental Health & Wellness

Course Snapshot

  • Target Students

    Grades 8-10

  • Curriculum

    Mental Health, Healthy Coping Skills, Advocacy Skills

  • Time

    25 Minutes/ Activity, 1 Hours Total

Lesson Plan

Introduction to Mental Health

This course speaks positively to all students about their own mental wellness, including the impact of stress, the influence the brain has on each person, and the impact our environment can have on our mental health.

Introduction to Mental Health

Understanding Mental Health Disorders

Students are introduced to the concept of balancing emotions, thoughts, and behaviors regardless of the severity, and explore choices that may help them reduce the severity of symptoms.

Mental Health Coping Skills

Students are introduced to how thoughts, behaviors, and emotions influence each other in positive and negative ways. They also practice coping strategies and learn to turn a negative cycle into a positive one.

Mental Health Coping Skills

Staying Healthy in Times of Uncertainty

Students learn the ways things outside of our control impact mental health. Students will understand basic human needs, the importance of resiliency, and coping strategies specific to times of change and uncertainty.

Seeking and Offering Help

This lesson teaches learners to identify when they or a peer may need help for their mental health, how to get help and what to expect when seeking treatment.

Seeking and Offering Help

Creating a Supportive Mental Health Plan

Students are introduced to the topic of mental distress and the ways in which they can implement coping strategies to manage their own challenging thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Students will also learn how to support friends and family who may be struggling, how to recognize when to seek help, and how to access appropriate resources.

Bring Understanding Mental Wellness into Your Classroom, School and District

Access and Accountability

Asynchronous learning allows for lessons anytime, anywhere with built-in assessments and real-time grading.

Turnkey Lessons

Gamified financial skills in a fail-safe environment. Teachers receive lesson plans, activities, & discussion guides, too.

Implementation Support

Our regional support team guides teachers every step of the way, through on-demand training and professional learning events.

Join the 60,000+ teachers who used EVERFI's award-winning lessons this past school year!

I like that it was ready-to-use, user-friendly and incorporated both fun and learning, real-life skills.

Teacher
Comsewogue School District, New York

Once kids can name something, it becomes easier to understand and relate to. And for mental health, this can be a really important way to reduce stigma.

Kimberly Palocsay
Math Teacher, Ohio Virtual Academy

Frequently Asked Questions

EVERFI has built a network of partners and sponsors who help fund our digital resources for K-12 teachers, schools, and districts. Through multi-year commitments, EVERFI gives educators the assurance that programming can be launched at scale and even written into the curriculum.

Understanding Mental Wellness' lessons are aligned to National Health Education Standards (NHES), State Academic Health Standards, and CASEL Social and Emotional Learning Competencies. EVERFI provides comprehensive curriculum guides and standards alignment guides to help you plan for implementation.

EVERFI helps teachers, schools, and districts bring real-world skills to students. Thanks to partners, we provide our digital platform, training, and support at no cost.

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