Ways to Earn

The resources below are examples ways to become a MH CHAMP and earn My Health Pays^® Rewards.* If you have completed a MH related program, training or activity not listed below, please submit a brief description of why you think it make you a MH CHAMP, using the attestation form below. We will review your submission to determine if it qualifies for rewards!

Complete the MH CHAMP Application Form today!

Recovery:

If you are receiving treatment from a Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) you may have the opportunity to engage in evidenced based recovery programs. Learn more below and if you participate in one of these programs you can qualify for the reward!

Additional information on the Ten (10) CMHC’s can be found here at the NH Community Behavioral Health Association website. 

Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) Services

CPP is therapy for young children from birth through age 5 and their parents/caregivers. CPP supports family strengths and relationships, helps families heal and grow after stressful experiences and, respects family and cultural values. CPP is available at most NH CMHC’s. Click here for a full list of CPP providers.

Illness Management and Recovery Services

Available at all 10 CMHC’s throughout the state, Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) is an evidence-based psychiatric rehabilitation practice whose primary aim is to empower individuals to manage their illnesses, find their own goals for recovery, and make informed decisions about their treatment by teaching them the necessary knowledge and skills. Click here to find a CMHC closest to you.

Modular Approach to Therapy for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, or Conduct Problems

This evidenced based treatment provides clear step-by-step instructions, activities, example scripts, time-saving tips, and easy-to-read handouts and worksheets for youth and their caregivers. Modules are designed to address various mental health challenges specific to anxiety, depression, trauma or conduct problems.

Resilience, Empowerment, Natural supports for Education and Work (RENEW)

RENEW is a structured school-to-career transition planning and individualized wraparound process for youth who may be experiencing emotional and behavioral challenges, have a limited social support system, and need to figure out where they are headed.

A trained RENEW Facilitator meets with the youth to visually map out their strengths, interests, dreams, and people in their life. This information is used to set specific goals, plan, and invite supportive people to help them achieve their goals.

RENEW is currently provided by eight of NH's ten Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs). Click here for more information about CMHCs that offer this program.

Supported Employment Services

Available at all 10 CMHC’s throughout the state, supported employment is a vocational service to help individuals fully realize their skills, experiences, and interests to gain and maintain meaningful employment. Click here to find a CMHC closest to you. 

The HOPE Treatment Model

The HOPE treatment model is for individuals, aged 15 to 35 years, who are showing symptoms of serious mental illness, including seeing, hearing, and believing things that aren’t real or having strange, persistent thoughts, behaviors and emotions. Family members are often the first to notice the signs of a major change that may signal a serious mental illness.

The Seven Challenges

The Seven Challenges helps you to understand what needs are being met by using drugs, what harm they are causing, what risks they are taking, and what it entails to make changes. The program provides tools and support to also manage co-occurring mental health challenges that ensures success.

Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Services

VR New Hampshire is an employment program for individuals who experience a disability. We offer a wide range of vocational rehabilitation services designed to help individuals prepare for, obtain, retain, and advance in employment. VR encompasses a wide range of services and supports designed to help people with disabilities set and achieve employment goals. Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services are customized for everyone through assessments and one-on-one meetings with professional VR Counselors. VR also provides a variety of services to help students with disabilities successfully transition from school to work or higher education.

Training:

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) Community Programs

The AFSP NH Chapter offers many community programs for suicide prevention to individuals, organizations, and employers across the state.

MH First Aid

When you see a family member, friend, or co-worker in crisis, it can be hard to know how to respond, how to help. Mental Health First Aid provides the tools.  Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. MH First Aid Training is available from the Organizations below:

• NH Community Behavioral Health Association
• NH School Safety Resources
• NAMI NH

NAMI NH Training Opportunities

NAMI NH offers a variety of standard and customizable training workshops on mental health, crisis response, and suicide prevention.  Many of these trainings can be presented either in-person or virtually and can be adapted to best suit your audience. NAMI NH has decades of experience delivering impactful trainings locally, nationally, and internationally to audiences including educators; law enforcement and first responders; businesses; mental health professionals; students; nonprofit organizations; and community groups.

NH Teen Institute

Empowering teens to lead healthy lifestyles and create stronger communities through community-focused prevention and leadership workshops.

Signs of Suicide (SOS)

SOS, Signs of Suicide is an evidence-based program that teaches students how to identify the signs of suicide and depression in themselves and their peers.

Peer Support:

Communities for Alcohol and Drug Free Youth (CADY)

Every year thousands of New Hampshire youth make a choice—a choice to use or not use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. CADY’s mission is to help youth make healthy and safe choices. CADY offers innovative programming and evidence-based strategies that deter alcohol, tobacco and other drug use; that engage and strengthen families, schools and communities; and that promote healthy environments and resiliency building.

Makin’ It Happen

Are you a youth (13-18 years old) or a young adult (18 – 25 years old) living in the Greater Manchester Region? Are you looking for a sense of community or want to get involved with prevention-based programs? Then Makin’ It Happen in the 603 is for you! You can gain leadership skills, participate in substance misuse, and suicide prevention programs, and come together to share issues and challenges in your school, work, or community, as well as actively take part in identifying solutions. Participate in a Makin’ It Happen in the 603 program, and help build resiliency in youth, families, and communities.

NAMI NH - Speaker Programs

NAMI NH offers educational presentations for businesses, organizations, and community members on mental illness. Individuals can also request to be trained by NAMI NH as speakers, sharing their own stories to provide hope to others.

NAMI NH - Onward NH

Share your story and experience with early serious mental illness through NAMI NH’s Onward NH program. Make connections, get help and find hope through peer support.

Peer Support Agencies:

Peer support services are provided by and for people with a mental illness and are designed to assist people with their recovery. Peer support consists of supportive interactions based on shared experience among people and are intended to assist people to understand their potential to achieve their personal goals. Interactions are based on trust, respect, and mutual support. Peer support agencies accomplish this by providing choice, using non-medical approaches to help, sharing decision making, encouraging informed decision making about all aspects of people's lives, challenging perceived self-limitations, etc.

Volunteer

Community Action for Safe Teens (CAST)

Serving the communities of Amherst, Brookline, Hollis, Mason, Mont Vernon and Wilton, CAST offers leadership training and other programming to prevent substance use, educate, support and promote healthy choices for youth throughout Souhegan Valley.

PEMI Youth Center

With locations in both Plymouth and Franklin, the PEMI Youth Center engages youth in a variety of community-based service-learning projects throughout the school year and summer months. Additional programming includes Creative Arts Workshops, Empowerment Groups and Life Skills Training.

Youth Leadership Through Adventure (YLTA)

YLTA is a student-led program to plan and implement effective substance misuse prevention and awareness programs based on positive youth development. The mission of YLTA is to empower youth to lead and promote the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, reduce substance misuse, and improve overall school climate in each and every school of the North Country of New Hampshire.

Young Organizers United (Y.O.U.)

With Manchester and Nashua Chapters, Y.O.U. works to provide information, skills, and leadership training to help empower youth. Y.O.U. members come together with open minds twice weekly to discuss what’s going on in their lives and community in a safe space. They work together to bring about positive changes in their schools and community.

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Sign up to volunteer for community and campus walks, paws for prevention or host your own event to help prevent suicide.

 

*Some restrictions and limitations apply. Each Member can earn up to $250 in cash and non-cash goods and services through June 30 each year.