TC Strong

10/09/2026

building a suicide-safer community, better together. 💜

Last week, our TCS student support team spent two full days learning ASIST (Applied Su***de Intervention Skills Training) with our partners at TC Strong. 💙

Over those two days, our counselors, social workers, and student support staff built skills to recognize when someone may be struggling and to respond with care. This training strengthens the support network our students can turn to every day.

Thank you to TC Strong and to our student support staff for your commitment to our schools. Your partnership means so much to our students, our staff, and our whole community.

10/08/2026

🌧️ A few reminders if Storms bring up big feelings:

💜 Notice what you’re feeling without judging it.
💜 Ground yourself in what is happening right now - not what happened before.
💜 Talk with someone you trust.
💜 If you’re feeling overwhelmed, reach out for support. You don’t have to carry it alone.

Quick links for support & grounding:
🔗 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline
🔗 RHS Mobile Crisis: 1-888-573-1006

And remember: In any situation or stressor, a big reaction doesn’t mean you’re going backward. Sometimes your nervous system is simply remembering what you’ve been through. 💜

09/30/2026

Last week, Beth & Rik, alongside two BHS students and Tyler, our Brevard College intern, attended Forum 5 of Care4Youth at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, representing Zone 1 - Transylvania & Henderson Counties.

Through Carolina Across 100 and CHAAMP, 10 teams from the mountains to the coast are working together to improve youth and young adult mental health. These teams are composed of service providers and healthcare, education, government, workforce, and non-profits entities from 18 counties across the state.

This is TC STRONG in action - working alongside youth, connecting community partners, amplifying youth voice, and strengthening rural pathways to connection, purpose, and hope. 💜

Learn more at https://carolinaacross100.unc.edu/care4youth/

09/29/2026

carries no fewer than ✌🏾 bags at all times, still enters the chat like this. 🤓

coming up this week & next:
🔸️ BHS Mentors mini-training
🔸️ NAMI on Campus @ BHS
🔸️ VOS school chapters (RHS, DRS, BHS, MSCS)
🔸️ ASIST with TCS Student Support team
🔸️ VOS: COMMUNITY-WIDE (Thursdays @ 6p)
🔸️ Growing Well Conference @ App (10/5 & 6)
🔸️ Safely Seen Peer Support Group LAUNCH on 10/6
🔸️ Neurodivergent Book Club (first Weds @ 6p)
🔸️ Network Meeting (2nd Thursdays @ noon)

did we miss anything?! 🙃

(if you see us out there, bring ☕️ & high fives.)

09/18/2026

You don’t have to figure it out alone. 💜

SAFELY SEEN: Wellness Peer Support Group
A youth peer support group for ages 13–17, led by a Certified Peer Support Specialist.

🗓️ Tuesdays starting October 6
💜 No Charge to participate
🙋 Self-referral welcome

Scan the QR code to request a spot in this cohort.

09/18/2026

When we listen to young people, take their experiences seriously, and intentionally build systems of care around them, real change happens.

Congratulations to the Pardee team on the opening of the new Behavioral Health Unit. This is more than a new space - it represents intentional investment in the mental health and well-being of our community, and a commitment to making sure people have somewhere to turn when they need support. 💜

A new center specifically for teens' mental health care in Hendersonville, means a major improvement in access for the county, Pardee says. See link below ⬇️

📸 SUZANNE CAMARATA/Provided by UNC Health Pardee

09/11/2026

so stoked to partner with our schools to create opportunities for youth to support youth. 💜

This is what working alongside young people looks like - building connection, belonging, and community together, while creating space for them to lead.

So proud to see youth voice and leadership in action!

09/08/2026

Two of our favorite people are this week’s Transylvanians of the Week! 💜And we couldn’t be more excited to celebrate them!

They make our days brighter, and we’re so thankful to get to do this grassroots, community-based public health work alongside people who bring so much heart and joy to the work of making our community well and stronger - and who know how to get into a little good trouble along the way.

We’re better together. Congratulations, friends! 🎉

Before Transylvania youth returned to school, The T. Times met with Celia Reese, program director, and Jermois Morris, project coordinator, for CARE Coalition, a grassroots community group dedicated to reducing

09/08/2026

Community partners: need to restock your 988 materials?

Stop by the TC STRONG loft TODAY, September 8, to pick up 988 cards, flyers, and other resources to keep on hand and share with youth, families, and community members.

10 am - 2 pm
212 S. Broad St., Suite C, Brevard

Help us make sure 988 resources are easy to find when they’re needed most. 💜

09/02/2026

dear neurodivergent book clubbers,
we had no idea a heat wave was coming the same week our ac resigned when we said "same time, same place" at our last book club, BUT our nice pals at N E W F O U N D - which i could see from where i took this picture if I could see through buildings - are happily opening their space for us to meet.

yay for good friends & good books! 📚🫂