Evaluation of the Building Healthy Life Skills Program

Community members who are experiencing homelessness and receiving support services from the Merced County Navigation Center and who have enrolled in the center's Building Healthy Life Skills Program will be invited to participate in this intervention evaluation study. The Building Healthy Life Skills program is a 10-week program designed to provide participants with an understanding of how abuse, neglect and household dysfunctions during childhood affect emotional, social, and cognitive well-being; and to provide training in emotion regulation skills, including adaptive emotional processing and expression, mindfulness, and cognitive reappraisal. The sessions are two hours in duration and conducted in classroom style. Open enrollment will be conducted four times a year, serving approximately 60 individuals.