Project Aware Here4U

Here4U

Live a Life, Reduce Stigma

Get to Know Us!

This Project Trains Teams of Peer Educators to Develop a Year-long Campaign That Aims To:

Increase awareness around social connectedness and coping strategies to support well-being.
Increase awareness of the signs and symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Diminish stigma around depression, anxiety, and help seeking behaviors.
Connect peers with trusted adults and mental health supports in their community.

Pontiac High School
Holly High School
Troy High School
Troy Athens High School
Clarkston High School
Seaholm High School
Hazel Park High School
Rochester High School
Adams High School
Stoney Creek High School
South Lyon East High School
Walled Lake Western High School

The Here4U Project is based on the University of Michigan Depression Center (UMDC) Peer-to-Peer Depression Awareness Program and our Peer Educator Training Sessions are adapted from the Michigan Model for Health^TM: Skills for Health and Life, Social and Emotional Health Unit. More information available at michiganmodelforhealth.org

Peer Educator (Students)
District Mentors (Administrators)

Peer Educator (Students)

What is a Peer Educator?

Becoming a Here4U peer educator provides the chance to influence and lead in your school building. Under the guidance of your school’s Here4U mentor, you will positively impact the culture in your school as part of a team of peers that encourage awareness, diminish stigma, and connect peers to help. Becoming a peer educator is not about providing counseling or diagnosing yourself or your peers.

Are you interested in bringing Here4U to your school? Think you have what it takes to be a Peer Educator?

Send Here4U an email to learn more or show your school principal or counselor the great things happening in our participating schools.

If you’re experiencing a mental health crisis, help is available 24/7.

Call or text 988.

Peer Educator Posts

Here 4 U Rochester Community Schools: Rochester High School

Introducing our 21-22 OCHere4U Peer Educators

Oakland Schools opened an application process for interested high schools to join the 21-22 Here4U Project at the start of the school year. We want to welcome and introduce you to the four teams.

Stoney Creek High School screenshot of social media. Topics are depression, stress, and staying well.

20-21 Here4U: Stoney Creek High School

The Stoney Creek Here4U Team worked together to plan activities to raise awareness and engage their peers in supporting their social-emotional well-being.

represents what teens feel today, stress anxiety, social media, pressure

Becoming a OC Here4U Peer Educator in 2020-2021

The Peer Educators from Stoney Creek High School committed to innovatively learning about and educating their peers.

Being a Teen Today

What's it like being a teenager? Our Peer Educators share their experiences.

Anxiety and Depression

Here4U Peer Educators work in teams to draw representations of Anxiety and Depression after learning symptoms.

How Here4U Began

Peer educators and District Mentors brainstormed together to name the Here4U program.

Here4U

Live a Life, Reduce Stigma

Get to Know Us!

This Project Trains Teams of Peer Educators to Develop a Year-long Campaign That Aims To:

Since Starting in 2018, Project Partners Have Included:

Peer Educator (Students)

What is a Peer Educator?

Are you interested in bringing Here4U to your school? Think you have what it takes to be a Peer Educator?

Peer Educator Posts

District Mentors (Administrators)

How Here4U got started?

Staff Training around Youth Mental Health

Join Oakland County Here4U

District and contact information

Staff training around youth and mental health

Staff Training

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