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    What you need to know to help prevent suicide
    • Aug 7, 2020
    • 2 min

    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...
    Meet a local hero: Matthew Boyd
    • 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....
    Talking to children about grief and loss
    • 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...
    Meet a local hero: Darcy Lee
    • 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...
    Start preparing children for school now. Here’s how.
    • 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...
    How to support your children during the pandemic
    • 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...
    Meet a local hero: Pam Bolarinho
    • 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...
    The state of Mental Health in Massachusetts
    • 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...
    Meet a local hero: Brittany Botelho
    • 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...
    We all need help sometimes
    • 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...
    Here’s to the everyday heroes who are lifting people up.
    • 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...
    Why stigma hurts
    • 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...
    Seven steps to reduce stigma around mental illness
    • 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,...
    Five books to better understand mental illness
    • 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...
    Join the Help and Hope Southcoast campaign: How to get involved
    • 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...
    When we feel stressed now: What’s different and how COVID-19 changes everything
    • 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...
    When asking for help is the hardest thing to do
    • 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...
    Welcome to Help and Hope Southcoast
    • 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...
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