[KDWA Radio, February 07, 2020]
Allina Health's Change to Chill program is making a difference at Hasting High School. Kim Hoff, a Hastings High counselor, Simon Hedin, a Hastings High School student and Change to Chill intern, and Susan Nygaard, manager, Community Health Improvement at Allina Health, were interviewed on KDWA about how Change to Chill is working at Hastings High school.
February 07, 2020
[Monticello Times, November 29, 2019]
Monticello HS students Kaia Loberg & Jacob Keller have seen first hand how stress can affect their peers when finals can impact the mental wellbeing.
November 29, 2019
[KARE 11, November 06, 2019]
Stress is a part of everyday life, but when it gets too bad it can really interfere with everyday things you need to do. For University of Minnesota students, the YMCA there is using techniques and tools from Allina Health's Change to Chill program.
November 06, 2019
[Quad Community Press, November 05, 2019]
The percentage of ninth grade students who reported that they had mental health concerns lasting six months or more increased from 12.5% in 2013 to 17.3% in 2016 and 23.1% in 2019. The percentage of 11th graders who said they seriously considered suicide in the past year increased from 9.7% in 2013 to 12% in 2016 and 13.3% in 2019.
November 05, 2019
[KSTP TV, January 01, 0001]
Allina Health's Change to Chill program is now at the University of MN's YMCA, using Change to Chill techniques to help students cope with college life.
October 29, 2019
[KARE 11, October 17, 2019]
The Minnesota Student Survey is out and it shows something troubling. Our kids are telling us, in this survey, that many of them are struggling with mental health issues.
October 17, 2019
[Savage Pacer, October 16, 2019]
Burnsville High School senior Katie Fritz felt overwhelmed by stress when she took a job after school last year. She worried about her grades and struggled to find time to calm her mind in between class, work and extracurricular activities.
October 16, 2019
[KDWA-AM, September 16, 2019]
For the 2019-2020 school year, Allina Health’s Change to Chill (CTC) School Partnership has expanded to include16 new area high schools, in addition to providing continued support to schools that participated in the Partnership last year. “Allina Health, through its CTC program, is helping teens manage stress, improve their mental well-being and build resiliency,” Susan Nygaard, Allina Health’s Manager of Community Health Improvement told KDWA Radio in Hastings.
September 16, 2019
[Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, July 19, 2019]
The need for adolescent mental health programming emerged during Allina's Community Health Needs Assessment giving shape to the Change to Chill program.
July 19, 2019
[MPR News, May 15, 2019]
This week, Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith spoke publicly for the first time about living with depression.
May 15, 2019