Just as you have an annual physical health check-up, we encourage you to have regular mental health check-ups to provide you with information that will allow you to obtain treatment as needed and, ultimately, to live your life well. There is no health without mental health!
Mental Health Screenings are offered free of charge online, at the MHAIV office and throughout the community. To use our online screening program, click here Mental Health Screening.
To schedule or locate a screening in the community, please call us at 309-692-1766 or email mhaiv@mhaiv.org
TeenScreen
TeenScreen is a community outreach, prevention and intervention program designed to reduce new incidences of major depression, anxiety disorders and substance abuse among children and adolescents.
The ultimate goal of the Columbia University TeenScreen® Program is to ensure that all parents are offered the opportunity for their teens to receive a voluntary mental health check-up.
Screening:
- Requires parental consent and youth consent
- Provides confidential results
- Finds youth with depression and other emotional disorders before they fall behind in school, end up in serious trouble or, worst of all, end their lives.
The TeenScreen Program:
- Educates youth about mental health and mental health problems;
- Identifies children and adolescents who are at risk for developing major depression, anxiety disorders and/or substance abuse through a relatively quick, confidential and valid mental health screening (with active parental permission); and
- Refers those who screen positive to a community mental health service provider for a more complete evaluation and clinical services, if warranted.
TeenScreen is available to all middle and high schools in Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties. Contact us at (309) 692-1766 or mhaiv@mhaiv.org to obtain more information or schedule a screening program for your school.
Funded in part by a grant from the Caterpillar Foundation.
