{"id":431509,"date":"2026-09-10T08:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/431509\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:04:09","slug":"pearland-isd-partners-with-uthealth-for-mental-health-program-pearland-friendswood-manvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/431509\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearland ISD partners with UTHealth for mental health program | Pearland &#8211; Friendswood &#8211; Manvel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/pearland-friendswood-manvel\/education\/pearland-isd-expands-university-student-placements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Pearland ISD students<\/a> will have the opportunity to participate in five 45- to 60-minute sessions focused on mental health awareness after the board of trustees approved an agreement with UTHealth Houston\u2019s Department of Psychiatry at its Sept. 8 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The overview<\/p>\n<p>UTHealth Houston\u2019s Risk and Resilience Network has a Youth Aware of Mental Health, or YAM, program.<\/p>\n<p>The program is designed to increase knowledge and discussion about mental health among adolescents, and uses interactive lectures and activities to support:<\/p>\n<p>Problem-solving skills<\/p>\n<p>Emotional intelligence<\/p>\n<p>Self-awareness<\/p>\n<p>Empathy<\/p>\n<p>Listening skills<\/p>\n<p>Perspective-taking <\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>UTHealth Houston will provide program materials, a YAM facilitator and assistant, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.finalsite.net\/images\/v1788381695\/pearlandisdorg\/bu0lpqlc9lhtgsspdaik\/2026_09_08_BoardAgenda.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">district documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement, which will have no financial impact, is effective through the end of June 2028, district documents note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pearland ISD students will have the opportunity to participate in five 45- to 60-minute sessions focused on mental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[29062,56,58,57,2125,5734,36622,149944,149945],"class_list":["post-431509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-board-of-trustees","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-mental-health","tag-pearland-isd","tag-uthealth-houston","tag-yam","tag-youth-aware-of-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}