| Date | June 12, 2025 |
| Time | 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM |
| Location | Williamsburg Health Foundation |
Working to promote a healthier community through education and outreach.
Mobilizing communities to prevent substance misuse, suicide and other unhealthy coping skills and increasing awareness of how negative childhood experiences can impact us throughout our lives.
8:30 AM Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Click here to view the training flier
1:00 PM Join the NAACP and James City County at America’s First Free Black Settlement in honor of Juneteenth. Enjoy live music, readings, performances and a presentation on the history of Juneteenth in Freedom Park. Local vendors and food will be on-site for purchase. Free admission. Located at 5537 Centerville Road.
5:30 PM This 4th annual free and alcohol-free community event promises an exciting day filled with music, culture, and fun for all ages. A high-energy concert from local favorite SLAPNATION, performing live from 7 to 9 p.m. The celebration will be hosted by none other than Doc Christian, the dynamic radio personality from Groove 101.9, who will serve as the event MC, keeping the crowd engaged and the energy high. Admission is free, and all are welcome. Parking will be available on-site. Come out and celebrate with us as we honor the history, resilience, and contributions of the Black community in America. Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets.
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08:30 AM Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Click here to view the training flier
01:00 PM Join the NAACP and James City County at America’s First Free Black Settlement in honor of Juneteenth. Enjoy live music, readings, performances and a presentation on the history of Juneteenth in Freedom Park. Local vendors and food will be on-site for purchase. Free admission. Located at 5537 Centerville Road.
05:30 PM This 4th annual free and alcohol-free community event promises an exciting day filled with music, culture, and fun for all ages. A high-energy concert from local favorite SLAPNATION, performing live from 7 to 9 p.m. The celebration will be hosted by none other than Doc Christian, the dynamic radio personality from Groove 101.9, who will serve as the event MC, keeping the crowd engaged and the energy high. Admission is free, and all are welcome. Parking will be available on-site. Come out and celebrate with us as we honor the history, resilience, and contributions of the Black community in America. Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets.
| Date | June 12, 2025 |
| Time | 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM |
| Location | Williamsburg Health Foundation |
| Date | June 14, 2025 |
| Time | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Location | Freedom Park - Free Black Settlement Area 5537 Centerville Road Williamsburg, VA, 23188 |
| Date | June 14, 2025 |
| Time | 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM |
| Location | McReynolds Athletic Complex (MAC) Soccer Fields 412 Sports Way, Yorktown, VA |
ACEs Interface training teaches participants about adverse childhood experiences, toxic stress, and how adversity in childhood can impact adult health.
Learn the steps to address trauma, how to create safe environments and improve relationships so that healing can begin and allow all children to reach their full potential..
Audience: Parents/Guardians, Teachers, Medical/Mental Health Professionals and Community Members.
LivingWorks Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is a two-day interactive workshop in suicide first aid. ASIST teaches participants to recognize when someone may have thoughts of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety.
Audience: Although ASIST is widely used by healthcare providers, participants don't need any formal training to attend the workshop. Anyone 16 or older can learn and use the ASIST model.
Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid course, you learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help.
Audience: Parents/Guardians, Teachers, Medical/Mental Health Professionals and Community Members.
SafeTALK is a 4 hour LivingWorks workshop that teaches participants to be more alert to people thinking about suicide and better able to connect them to suicide intervention resources.
Participants will be better able to reach out to someone thinking about suicide, promptly connect them to further support, overcome personal and community attitudes that act as barriers to help and learn the powerful 4-step TALK model.
Audience: Everyone over the age of 16 years who wants to help keep the people around them safe from suicide should attend.
REVIVE! training provides information on how to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose emergency using naloxone for lay rescuers. This training also covers understanding opioids, how opioid overdoses happen, and the risk factors for opioid overdoses.
Audience: Parents/Guardians, Teachers, Medical/Mental Health Professionals and Community Members
