As a community-based provider, our facilitators bring a mobile gaming center to middle schools around the region. We combine evidence-based therapy (such as DBT, CBT, and SFBT) with gaming to help youth accomplish their goals. Our facilitators teach skills that help youth stay safe, remain calm under pressure, communicate respectfully and persuasively, expand their connection to their family and community, make lasting and valuable friendships, and develop achievable goals for themselves and their communities. CoRe is designed to develop and instill within the youth served the values of: Video games are an ideal avenue to address this mission: Because youth usually have positive associations with video game technology, covert learning can and does take place without the normal resistance to overt educational approaches. Moreover, this technology uses a multi-sensory approach to learning, using visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning modalities. To sign up, or further information or questions, please contact: Mei-Ling Morrison-Beals, LICSW, CMHS, MHPASC’s CoRe Gaming Group is an innovative project tailored to serve middle-schoolers by using video games as a therapeutic tool to help teach interpersonal skills, distress tolerance, and emotional regulation.
Email | 206-454-3952
