Welcome to the Mercer Island Healthy Youth Initiative
Our Mission: To successfully launch every Mercer Island youth into adulthood with a foundation of physical and mental health, well-prepared to cope with the academic, social, and emotional challenges of adulthood.
Check out ParentingMercerIsland.org!
Check out ParentingMercerIsland.org!
Visit Parenting Mercer Island, a new online tool to learn skills to address everyday parenting challenges such as routines, stress and anxiety, peer pressure, substance use and more. Learn the actions to take and the words to say. You can choose topics based on your child’s age, access resources and learn more about important parenting topics.
Programs and Initiatives
Youth Suicide Prevention for Parents
Learn strategies that you can use to help a youth in crisis stay safe and get support. Just like first aid and CPR, this is valuable knowledge for everyone to have in their toolkit to support a healthy family and community.
Online Program April 23, 2024 - 7PM
中文（普通话）— 奇迹年华冬季系列Incredible Years Attentive Parenting Program - MANDARIN
8 Week Online Session this Spring (beginning April)
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Fentanyl and other substances are negatively impacting the health of youth and adults in our region. Be informed about the risks of fentanyl and learn tangible protective measures that parents and youth need to stay safe.
Parents are the #1 Influence!
Over 80 percent of young people ages 10–18 say their parents are the leading influence on their decision whether to drink. Learn prevention basics and gather tips on having these important conversations with your children.
Online Tool to Support
Youth Mental Health
& Wellbeing
“TAKE Five” is a free, anonymous, online tool
available to high school students. The tool is
designed to provide a personal, private, self check-in
for youth about their emotional state and coping strategies.
The tool gives individualized feedback to students and also
provides factual information about what other high school
students are experiencing to give students perspective.
Youth Mental Health First Aid Training
Free training for adults - learn how to support youth mental wellbeing
More training opportunities coming soon!
One Choice Prevention Message
The Institute for Behavior and Health is reframing the goal of substance use prevention as One Choice: no use of any alcohol, nicotine, marijuana, or other drugs by youth under age 21 for reasons of health. Learn more about the data-driven campaign and tools and tips for parents and caregivers to talk to their children and teens about substance use.
MERCER ISLAND
Healthy Youth Initiative Community Coalition
Would you like to make a difference in the Mercer Island community? Join the work of the HYI Community Coalition!
Mercer Island Steps Up
Against Fentanyl
Mercer Island Healthy Youth Initiative partners with King County new fentanyl overdose prevention campaign, targeted specifically to reach young people between the ages of 14 to 18 years old. | Learn More & Share >