resilience Tag

20 Apr 12 Tips for Coping with Stress

Posted at 16:58h in All Blog Posts, Anxiety, Feelings, Grief and Loss, Post-Traumatic Stress, Resilience, Stress, The Latest, Uncategorized by Ashleigh Silas, LPC, CPCS 0 Comments

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Are you one of the 29% of adults who made a New Year’s resolution related to your mental health? Or are you among the 25% expected to feel MORE stress in 2023? Indeed, a lot can cause stress in our lives – continued inflation, increased cost...

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17 Apr How to Support Moms in Need This Mother’s Day

Posted at 17:20h in All Blog Posts, Holiday, Relationships, Resilience, The Latest, Therapy, Uncategorized, Volunteer by Briyanna Ferguson 0 Comments

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For years, Susan battled drug addiction, even after she had a child. Once she became a mother, she faced one of the most challenging circumstances of her life, when she lost custody of her daughter. During the time that Susan’s daughter was in custody of...

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14 Sep The Impact of COVID-19 on Substance Use

Posted at 21:58h in All Blog Posts, Feelings, Relationships, Resilience, Resources, The Latest, Therapy by Devin Mathews 0 Comments

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Substance abuse disorders have been on a consistent rise over the last decade. However, with the stressful onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant increase in drug related deaths and overdoses. Researchers are now sounding the alarm; highlighting the impact the virus...

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13 Sep Makayla and CHRIS 180: A Powerful Combination

Posted at 15:09h in All Blog Posts, Relationships, Resilience, Resources, Uncategorized by Briyanna Ferguson 0 Comments

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Makayla first learned about CHRIS 180 after facing many challenges in her life including homelessness as a teenager. She was a stellar athlete and was the first in her family to graduate from high school. Still, obstacles threatened to take her off the path to...

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19 Jul CHRIS 180 Hosts Ribbon Cutting For Westside Housing Initative

Posted at 14:46h in All Blog Posts, Events, Resilience, The Latest by Chaundra Luckett 0 Comments

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Program will provide stable homes to young mothers and children experiencing homelessness  ATLANTA, GA (June 28, 2022) – CHRIS 180, an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing trauma-informed mental health services for children, youth and families, recently hosted a ribbon cutting and grand opening of The Glover...

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02 Dec Finding a Sense of Control Amidst the Uncontrollable

Posted at 09:35h in All Blog Posts, Anxiety, Feelings, Resilience, Stress, Uncategorized by Kristen Hendrix 0 Comments

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If this year has taught me anything, it is that there is a lot of stuff I cannot change. That realization has brought on frequent feelings of powerlessness, helplessness and frustration. It has also sometimes brought about anger, sadness and a downright desire to just...

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12 Jun Choose Joy

Posted at 15:10h in Anxiety, Resilience by Ashleigh Silas, LPC, CPCS 0 Comments

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The world is completely chaotic right now. Everyday something changes. Abnormal is the new normal and for many of us the uncertainty of it all is making it hard to be optimistic. Yes, even those of us irritatingly happy people have found it hard to...

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09 Jun What Good Can Come of This?

Posted at 22:00h in Resilience by Carol Pitts, PhD, LPC, LMFT, CPCS 0 Comments

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Who would have thought the brutal murders of several black men and women would, after so many years, bring out millions of people to rally for the value of all human life -- especially black lives --and to protest police violence and injustice??  Who would...

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05 Jun Beginning Again

Posted at 16:05h in Resilience by Tom Van Laningham, MDiv. 0 Comments

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I am new to the CHRIS 180 family, having worked for some time at the now closed Care and Counseling Center of Georgia, I now work at the CHRIS Counseling Center – DeKalb. The counseling center has been in my life since I came to...

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