Welcome to Step Forward!
Z-Cares Foundation developed the Step Forward offerings to allow communities to come together with one voice about mental health: Start the conversation; Raise awareness; and Normalize the conversation to end the stigma.
Communities can combine any and all Step Forward pieces into a meaningful event.
Step Forward Offerings
Start the Conversation
Create Mental Health Awareness
Create Mental Health Awareness
Events to allow communities to start meaningful conversations
Create Mental Health Awareness
Create Mental Health Awareness
Create Mental Health Awareness
Training for community members to learn how to support community youth
Normalize the Conversation
Create Mental Health Awareness
Normalize the Conversation
Events to provide communities a voice to end the stigma
Conversation Starters
Z-Cares Screenings
Z-Cares Panel Discussion
Z-Cares Panel Discussion
Z-Cares Foundation, in partnership with IndieFlix Foundation hosts screenings of the documentary Angst. Angst is an IndieFlix Original documentary designed to raise awareness around anxiety. The film includes interviews with kids, teens, educators, experts, parents and a very special interview with Michael Phelps.
Other thought provoking films also available.
Z-Cares Panel Discussion
Z-Cares Panel Discussion
Z-Cares Panel Discussion
Through conversation we can help end the stigma around mental health. Z-Cares Foundation panel discussions are designed to come together as a community and have a meaningful conversation.
Let's Talk About It!
Panel discussions are recommended to coincide with z-cares screenings and well as open community discussions.
Create Mental Health Awareness
Z-Cares Training: Mental Health First Aid
Z-Cares Training: Mental Health First Aid
Z-Cares Training: Mental Health First Aid
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Mental Health First Aid® is an 8-hour national certification course that is designed to teach the skills to recognize the signs of a mental health or substance use disorder crisis, identify community resources, and link individuals in need of treatment and support to the proper resources. An in-person course, Mental Health First Aid® teaches participants a 5-step action plan that can be used to help those in need.
Z-Cares Trainers, certified by the National Council for Behavioral Health, will provide training to community adults to create better awareness and strategies around supporting youth mental health.
'It's CPR for Mental Health!'
Z-Cares Speaker Events
Z-Cares Training: Mental Health First Aid
Z-Cares Training: Mental Health First Aid
The easiest way to remove stigma from mental illness is to reach out and educate your friends, family and co-workers. Z-Cares Foundation can provide meaningful guest speakers to address a variety of topics related to mental health awareness and reducing stigma.
Our speakers can engage in meaningful question/answers sessions with our audience.
Normalize the Conversation
Mental Health Fairs
Mental Health Fairs
Mental Health Fairs
Only 36.9% of those suffering will seek help. Together, we can change these numbers. Z-Cares Foundation provides communities with the ability to connect to local mental health providers, ask direct questions and understand the process of care and find healthy connections.
Guided Discussions
Mental Health Fairs
Mental Health Fairs
Z-Cares Foundation guided discussions gives our youth a platform to share their voices and raise awareness around mental health. Our hope is to empower youth to educate one another and create a culture of support within communities. We are all in this together.
Z-Cares also offers guided material for adults and families to collectively end the stigma.