You and people you care about can take practical steps to improve your behavioral health and well-being.
Use the resources below to learn small steps to make a big difference in helping you stay healthy and happy.
We all have issues and are addicted to something. It’s okay not to be okay, but we don’t have to stay that way.
Welcome to “The Prevention Movement.”
You and your organization can help individuals, families, and groups in our communities prevent the life-altering problems from mental health and substance abuse issues.
The Prevention Movement helps people live well by taking intentional steps toward a healthier, purpose-filled life, and this can help prevent or lessen behavioral health problems.
Below are practical toolkits designed to equip you and the people you care about live their best life now. Help create healthier families and communities—one step at a time.
“C-H-A-I-N-S” is an acronym for behavioral health issues: “Compulsive Habits, Addictions, Idols, Negative Self-Talk”
For some, our CHAINS may be smoking, drinking, or pills. Often, it’s anxiety, depression, or loneliness. For others, it’s spending, eating, or the internet. Maybe it’s a compulsive habit like control, perfectionism, anger, or workaholism.
We all have things we keep doing even though they have negative consequences, and it’s hard to stop. But we can prevent these issues, and we can break those CHAINS!
Behavioral health is made up of integrated areas that lead us to emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and personal wellness.
The good news is that there are STEPS we can take that will improve our behavioral health. We can live life better!
Pick one of the toolkits below now and see how your life can become easier and happier a step at a time.
Download or print the workbook included in that toolkit and use it to chart your journey toward a new life.
Start taking the next right steps you identify and find more peace, joy, and purpose one day at a time.
Take these practical and proven steps to help you feel less worry and also find more peace, satisfaction, and hope. Starting now.
One half of families face behavioral health issues, and recovery can help change and save lives. In fact, we can ALL can benefit from recovery.
We all have emotional struggles, anxiety, and trials in our lives, but the good news is there are steps you can take to feel and live better.
Learn to recognize that alcohol and other habits can be problems—even if you're high-functioning—but you can learn how to live life better.
There are proven and practical steps you can take that will improve your life, build better habits, and prevent or limit behavioral health problems.
Identify workplace challenges and provide useful resources to develop and serve your people and increase productivity, effectiveness, and ROI.
“Three out of four of my family had substance use or mental health problems. One half of families face behavioral health issues, and 90% of those people do not seek help, and their problems get worse. Your life can get better starting now.
STEPS helps thousands of people facing challenges in their lives. We’ve done the research to identify the most effective and proven things you can do to improve your life. Don’t try to change everything today, just take it one step at a time!”
– Steve Ward, Founder and Executive Director of STEPS