Can We Teach the Lifelong Skill of Thriving With Anxiety?

After growing up with severe anxiety and firsthand experiencing
the lack of mental health resources in schools, Tessa (she/her)
founded Upstream Education to ensure teachers have the tools to
help their students manage anxiety and foster well-being. She
received a B.S. in Social Entrepreneurship from the Watson
Institute at Lynn University. Tessa also holds a 200 hour yoga
teacher certificate from Strala Yoga. In 2016, Tessa won the
Denver Public Schools Imaginarium Innovation Lab's Design
Challenge for her idea to create a program of bite-sized, Tier 1
Mental Health tools for high school students. The following year,
her first book, I Am Tessa, was published by One Idea Press. She
often speaks on the topics of adolescent mental health, social
entrepreneurship, and teacher professional development for
organizations including Teach For America, Denver Public Schools,
the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, and the
University of Notre Dame. In 2021, Tessa delivered her first TEDx
talk called “The Power of 5 Minutes for Youth Mental Health.”
Tessa is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and 2024 HopeLab Young
Innovator in Behavioral Health awardee. In her spare time, Tessa
loves to explore Colorado with her husband. She lives in Boulder.


About Upstream equips students with the ability
to "name and tame" their stress. We start with the science of
stress, specifically how our brains and bodies are biologically
predisposed to respond to stress through the fight, flight, or
freeze response. After students can "name" their stress, Upstream
gives them a variety of concrete tools to "tame" that stress. Our
tools are rooted in the practices of mindfulness, positive
psychology, and positive self-talk.


Links:


https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/su/su7304a6.htm


https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2024/cognitive-behavioral-therapy-alters-brain-activity-in-children-with-anxiety


https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2022/03/24/research-update-childrens-anxiety-and-depression-on-the-rise/


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9894765/


https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/features/anxiety-depression-children.html


https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/data.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKB7GZ0KAwo


https://www.coursehero.com/file/194915685/RA-Final-Rough-Draft/





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