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by Danielle Fritze, Vice President of Public Education and Design at Mental Health America
None of us have gone unaffected by the occasions of the previous few years, however a few of us may not notice simply how a lot we’ve been impacted as we go about our each day lives.
We have been caught in our houses (thanks, COVID!) and a few of us have misplaced our houses. We proceed to see our communities battle with acts of violence and unrest. And excessive climate occasions remind us that nature is a robust power to be revered, protected, and cherished.
On the opposite hand, we’ve additionally seen the resilience of the human spirit. People have reached out just about to 1 one other after they couldn’t be collectively in particular person, helped one another in instances of want, and arranged within the title of social justice. They have embraced out of doors actions, hobbies, and private enrichment endeavors.
That’s why this 12 months for Mental Health Month, we’re specializing in how environment influence psychological well being and calling for people to go searching, look inside.
This week Mental Health America launched our 2023 Mental Health Month Toolkit, themed (you guessed it) Look Around, Look Within.
The toolkit will help people and organizations work sensible as they’re planning actions to lift psychological well being consciousness in the course of the month of May.
We’ve made it simple for you by offering potential actions, e-newsletter articles, social media photos and publish language, e mail signatures and zoom backgrounds, reality sheets, worksheets, posters, and a tip calendar (and extra) so that you can share.
Topics that we particularly deal with within the toolkit embody:
- Safe and secure housing
- Healthy residence environments
- Neighborhoods and cities
- The outside and nature
We not solely assist folks perceive how these matters influence psychological well being, we additionally present actions folks can take to vary their environment in favor of their well-being, and options for find out how to cope if change isn’t real looking.
We hope that you just’ll obtain the 2023 Mental Health Month Toolkit to information your planning for May and to share with the folks in your neighborhood.
With your assist, this may be our most profitable Mental Health Month effort but.