The DEA Operations Engage is teaming up with the Fisher Cats, Raymond Coalition for Youth, and Makin’ It Happen on May 12th at 6 PM to recognize National Prevention Week. Bring...
Resiliency Essentials
Stress Awareness Month
Two years into the pandemic, we are just starting to emerge from the other side. These times have been challenging for all. The American Psychological Association (APA) reports...
Youth Voice at Risk of Being Silenced: A Statement from Makin’ It Happen Executive Director Mary Forsythe-Taber
Tomorrow a hearing will be held in the New Hampshire Senate’s Educational Committee on HB 1639. This bill aims to make the Youth Risk Behavioral Survey (YRBS) an opt-in survey...
Celebrating National Library Week
The modern library has become more than a place to read and borrow books! For this National Library Week, chatted with the Manchester City Library and Hooksett Library about the...
National Public Health Week
National Public Health Week is this week. This year’s theme, Public Health Is Where You Are, celebrates what we know is true: The places where we are, physically, mentally, and...
Friends of Aine
Christine Phillips, Executive Director of Friends of Aine, Center for Grieving Children and Families presented at this month’s Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Collaborative meeting....
Motivated by Compassion:The Manchester Health Department and the Manchester Police Department launch innovative Community Health Worker program!
Makin’ It Happen is taking the opportunity in 2022 to highlight the work of our incredible partners. This month we spoke with the Manchester Health Department’s Community Health...
World Teen Mental Wellness Day
Today marks World Teen Mental Wellness Day. The goal of this day is to highlight and understand the mental health issues that impact youth and their families as well as to...
The Sunsetting of the IDN (Integrated Delivery Network)
In 2015, New Hampshire received approval from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the Building Capacity for Transformation Waiver, a Medicaid Section 1115(a)...
Marijuana Awareness Month
February is Marijuana Awareness month, a time that the marijuana industry uses to promote its product. We at Makin’ It Happen wanted to take the opportunity to counter the...
Children of Alcoholics Awareness Week: A Discussion with Rik Cornell of the Greater Manchester Mental Health Center
Children of Alcoholics Awareness Week (COA Awareness Week) ‘breaks the silence that engulfs, and traps kids and teens living with parental addiction and offers the chance for...
Thank you, school counselors!!!!
This week is National School Counseling Week. National School Counseling Week 2022 (#NSCW22) is Feb. 7-11, 2022, to focus public attention on the unique contribution of school...
The Regulated Classroom is being offered a no cost to NH educators!
Congratulations to our partner Emily Daniels from Here THIS Now who was just awarded a contract with the New Hampshire Department of Education! The DOE will partner with her...
#FitFebruary
This #FitFebrurary we want to discuss the connection between physical and mental health! Traditionally, we might look at these two aspects of health separately, however, they are...
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