Background: Adolescence is a particularly stressful time during an individual’s life. It is vital that adolescents have access to mental health resources. A confidential program was offered in a school setting, a vital stepping-stone to addressing some barriers to accessing mental health resources. Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment (COPE) is a program that was used to provide adolescents with the tools necessary to deal with the countless impending changes encountered as they transition to young adults. Objectives: The background objective of implementing COPE was to provide rural high school teens with the tools they can utilize to cope with life’s stressors. Study Design: The COPE program was an already established plan based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Introduced in the first session of the COPE program were the three fundamental pillars of interest: thoughts, feelings, and actions. The COPE Teen 7-session program, each session 25-50 minutes in length, was implemented in a rural high school. Results: Thirteen high school seniors participated in the 7-session COPE program. A two-sided T-test (α=0.05) was calculated to compare pre and post change in resilience. The results were highly variable and non-definitive. Additionally, a two-sided T-test (α=0.05) was computed to compare pre and post changes in self-efficacy. All items of the scale showed a positive increase. All participants reported that they found the program overall helpful. Conclusion: Participants found COPE as a useful resource to teach mental health skills. There was a clinically significant increase in participants’ self-efficacy.