COULD SLEEP HELP END THE YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS?
KIDS AREN'T GETTING ENOUGH SLEEP—AND THEIR MENTAL HEALTH IS SUFFERING. The level of sleep deprivation among youth may be more significant...
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- Jan 19
- 1 min
Have you lost someone to suicide? A local support group meets tomorrow
Grief is often complicated; but it can be even more so when the loss you’re experiencing is from suicide. Experiencing the death of a...
- Dec 17, 2021
- 2 min
Big changes may be needed, but consistent small steps will get us there
The news about people’s mental health and well-being today is dark and somber. Reports show that the numbers of people experiencing...
- Nov 25, 2021
- 2 min
Learning about uncertainty, next steps, and gratitude
I’m one of those people who peeks at the end of the book before reading it all. Or, say, even getting halfway through. There have...
- Nov 18, 2021
- 3 min
There’s never been a better time to create a mental health toolbox
A conversation with Help & Hope organizers took a serious turn recently as those on the call spoke freely about the challenges and stress...
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
New support line dedicated to helping commercial fishermen
An international mental health partnership kicked off this week to help those in marine trades, including fishermen, cope with the...
- Oct 27, 2021
- 3 min
What to help others? Learn to express your own feelings first.
Adults looking to help children struggling with mental health challenges can be more effective by focusing on their own feelings first...
- Oct 20, 2021
- 2 min
The YWCA wants to take us beyond resilience to true healing and renewal
The YWCA’s Week Without Violence Campaign is looking for community support to help raise awareness around gender-based violence and...
- Oct 6, 2021
- 2 min
‘It’s important for them to know that it’s not just them’New group support for LGBT+ youth offering
So many youth are struggling with mental health problems this year. Well before the pandemic, New Bedford youth in the city’s Shannon...
- Oct 1, 2021
- 1 min
Mental health supporters to gather in Fall River
A lot has changed in the past year around mental health. Our awareness of what it means to have mental illness is growing and, along with...
- Sep 29, 2021
- 2 min
National Night Out: Celebrating community strengths together
A night to bring the community together and demonstrate that everyone belongs will be held Oct. 5 this year as part of the National Night...
- Sep 23, 2021
- 2 min
‘See what comes to you in the silence’
Michaela Coel may not have been speaking directly about mental health in her Emmy award speech that’s captured the world’s attention, but...
- Sep 17, 2021
- 1 min
Raising suicide awareness one stride at a time
Runners will hit the road next month to raise awareness around suicide and the grief and pain experienced from losing loved ones to this...
- Sep 15, 2021
- 1 min
Fewer suicides in Greater New Bedford to date
Deaths by suicide in the Greater New Bedford area have decreased slightly to date in 2021 and are the lowest in the five years that data...
- Sep 10, 2021
- 2 min
Caregiver alert: It’s time for self-care
It’s no secret that one of the groups hit hardest by COVID-19 related realities has been unpaid caregivers and parents of young children....
- Sep 9, 2021
- 2 min
Want to understand suicide better? This event can help.
Both help and hope will be on the menu at a special two-night event featuring speakers who have direct experience of attempting suicide,...
- Sep 2, 2021
- 1 min
Suicide statistics show a growing public health problem
It’s hard to understand why suicide prevention efforts are so important without understanding the impact suicide has in the U.S. In 2019,...
- Sep 1, 2021
- 2 min
Suicide prevention is a job for everyone
Last September, when I first became aware of the idea that everyone can help prevent suicide, I wasn't sure what that meant exactly. Did...
- Aug 26, 2021
- 2 min
Online guides offer support for parents and children. Start here.
As we get closer to the first day of school, stress is building on both parents and children around what this school year will be like,...
- Aug 25, 2021
- 2 min
Help reduce the stigma of a drug-related death on Tuesday
You don’t need to know someone who died from an overdose to help survivors pay tribute to their grief over losing a loved one to opioid...