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ELIJAH INSTITUTE

Integrating Faith, Meaning, and Mental Health

Integrating Faith, Meaning, and Mental HealthIntegrating Faith, Meaning, and Mental HealthIntegrating Faith, Meaning, and Mental Health

Whole Human Challenge For Highschool Students

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Focus on Human Flourishing

A Whole-Person Response for Catholic High Schools

 There are 1,185 Catholic secondary schools in the U.S. and more than 52,000 worldwide.

The Whole Human Challenge helps Catholic high schools respond to the student mental health crisis with a faithful, year-long wellness curriculum rooted in a Catholic understanding of the human person and evidence-informed care.

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Helping Students Build Mentally Healthy Lives

Helping Students Build Mentally Healthy Lives

Helping Students Build Mentally Healthy Lives

 

The Whole Human Challenge is a school-based wellness and formation program designed to help students grow into mentally healthy, resilient, and grounded young adults.

Rooted in a whole-person understanding of mental health, the program helps students develop practical skills for emotional wellness, healthy relationships, stress management, identity formation, and human flourishing.

Rather than focusing only on crisis or pathology, the Whole Human Challenge helps students build the foundations of lifelong mental wellness.

What Is the Whole Human Challenge?

Helping Students Build Mentally Healthy Lives

Helping Students Build Mentally Healthy Lives

  A Year, Not a Sprint

36 weeks.
Two semesters.
One human heart.

Each week is one 70-minute class. Reading, reflection, scripture, exercise, group conversation, closing practice. The pacing is unhurried by design — formation needs room to breathe.

Built around the Biopsychosocial-Spiritual-Moral framework that grounds everything we do at the Elijah Institute.

What Students Take With Them

A Lived Experience

A Lived Experience

A Lived Experience

 A lived experience of physical, psychological, and spiritual wellness that has real daily impact on relationships — with self, peers, family, and God. 

A High Bar

A Lived Experience

A Lived Experience

 
A high bar of personal responsibility and excellence, founded on the dignity and mission given by God at our creation. 

Practical Tools

A Lived Experience

Deep Integration

Practical tools and habits for a life of beauty, connection, and hope — even in the face of adversit 

Deep Integration

Deep Integration

Deep Integration

 The deep integration of the human person — mind, emotions, body, and spirit — made visible. 

Community

Deep Integration

Path to Sancity

 A classroom community of vulnerable openness, held within mutual respect and reverence. 

Path to Sancity

Deep Integration

Path to Sancity

 Students led farther down the path of sanctity — men and women alight with zeal for life and love for God. 

One year, five movements.

Creating Your Vision

 Sem 1 · Wk 1–5

Vision words, ideal self, honoring one another. Who are you made to become?

Honoring Your Inner Logic

 Sem 1 · Wk 6–15

Threat types, emotional integration, values mapping. Survive now — live later.

Confronting the Impossible

 Sem 2 · Wk 1–5

The religious sense. Infinite desire and finite capacity. What we are reaching for.

Claiming Your Identity

Sem 2 · Wk 6–12

Defining experiences. Relationship with God. Forming your team. Healing memory.

Setting Out Into the Deep

Sem 2 · Wk 13–18

Mary's Fiat. Fulfillment stories. Dreaming with God. The radical call to be a Saint.

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info@elijah-institute.org 952-260-8447 The Elijah Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.💖 TAX EIN # 92-1778213

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This website provides education, not treatment. It does not replace therapy, diagnosis, or professional care.



If you or someone you know is in a mental health crisis: 

Call or text 988 — Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call, text, or chat 24/7) (chat option at 988lifeline.org)

Call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room if there is immediate danger to life

Text HOME to 741741 — Crisis Text Line (free, 24/7)



 For Catholic-specific pastoral support, contact your local diocese or pastor. 


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