What you need to know to help prevent suicide
A medical doctor writing in Psychology Today wants to make suicide prevention responses as well known as CPR training or the Heimlich...
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- Aug 6, 2020
- 1 min
Meet a local hero: Matthew Boyd
Each week Help and Hope Southcoast features someone in the region who is helping to lift others up and end the stigma of mental illness....
- Aug 5, 2020
- 2 min
Talking to children about grief and loss
In the last few days, we’ve been talking with Child & Family Services mobile crisis intervention program manager Matthew Boyd about ways...
- Aug 4, 2020
- 2 min
Meet a local hero: Darcy Lee
Today’s local hero leads a team that literally saves lives. Volunteers at Samaritans of Fall River and New Bedford listen with compassion...
- Aug 3, 2020
- 2 min
Start preparing children for school now. Here’s how.
If you’re worried about the start of the school year, you’re in good company. School administrators, teachers, parents and students are...
- Jul 31, 2020
- 2 min
How to support your children during the pandemic
When faced with the anxiety of COVID-19, children and teens will look to their parents and other adults around them for ways to react to...
- Jul 30, 2020
- 1 min
Meet a local hero: Pam Bolarinho
Today’s conversation is with Pam Bolarinho from Child and Family Services. Pam leads a team of staff who do crisis evaluations in the...
- Jul 28, 2020
- 1 min
The state of Mental Health in Massachusetts
The National Alliance on Mental Illness is an excellent source of general information on mental health in the United States for those...
- Jul 28, 2020
- 2 min
Meet a local hero: Brittany Botelho
As we continue to explore supporting mental wellness on the Southcoast, it’s time to meet the people who have been doing this work...
- Jul 27, 2020
- 2 min
We all need help sometimes
It’s the time of year when we all should be experiencing the height of summer fun. It’s July, the sun is shining, beaches are nearby, and...
- Jul 24, 2020
- 1 min
Here’s to the everyday heroes who are lifting people up.
We’ve been talking about mental health awareness and ways to end mental illness stigma in the Southcoast for the past few weeks. Now...
- Jul 23, 2020
- 1 min
Why stigma hurts
We know that stigma around mental health problems can prevent people from seeking help for their symptoms; but, how else do our...
- Jul 22, 2020
- 2 min
Seven steps to reduce stigma around mental illness
“For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive,...
- Jul 21, 2020
- 2 min
Five books to better understand mental illness
Ending stigma around mental illness begins with understanding what it is and isn’t, and how those diagnosed with it experience and go...
- Jul 20, 2020
- 2 min
Join the Help and Hope Southcoast campaign: How to get involved
It’s a bird…it’s a plane…no, it’s a Southcoast campaign to end stigma against those with mental illness. Okay, that’s not as catchy an...
- Jul 16, 2020
- 2 min
When we feel stressed now: What’s different and how COVID-19 changes everything
Can you remember the beginning of March and the changes that were coming your way? Maybe your child’s school was suddenly talking about...
- Jul 15, 2020
- 2 min
When asking for help is the hardest thing to do
Asking for help is a tricky thing, isn’t it? We all need help sometimes and, when life gets tough, we know it’s good to have someone...
- Jul 3, 2020
- 2 min
Welcome to Help and Hope Southcoast
If you’ve found your way here to Help and Hope Southcoast, chances are helping others is important to you. You may be the one on your...