I found out about this online training recently and wanted to share it:
Learn to support someone struggling with their mental health through this online course created by Jack.org in partnership with Born This Way Foundation.
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My Father in Law actually sent me a link to this. It’s a suicide prevention summit being held in Sept. in Alexandria, LA. While I realize the readership of this blog might not include many people in the area, I wanted to share it because I think this is an important resource for anyone connected…
That’s not the society we’ve been building. You can’t “other” whole groups of people and claim to be building community. You can’t post constant hate and outrage online and claim to be connecting. You can’t build community when people are forced to work 60-80 hours per week or two or three jobs to afford rent. We need a commitment to connecting people and building community with everyone. Our current path will only harm all of us.
There is a lot of specific things mentioned in the article, but as always it all boils down to this: “Ultimately, the kindest thing we can do is what we’d do for any loved one struggling with anything: Be there. Be there to listen. Be there to sit with their pain. Be there to encourage…
Earn your Be There Certificate!! – Learn to support someone struggling with their mental health through this online course created by Jack.org in partnership with Born This Way Foundation.
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Social Media can be something that brings both great, and awful, things to us when it comes to our mental health. We can all think of some things that fall on both sides of that statement, probably things we’ve seen within the last day. Given that, the advice here from The Calculating Mind would be…
I took a quick look at the Mental Health At Work website linked in this article, and it’s impressive. “Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, was set to unveil the project, Mental Health at Work, at an event in Bristol on Tuesday.” The site is chock full of resources for employers, employees, really anyone…
