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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,...

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,...

Colleges need to rethink mental health beliefs and policies

Colleges and universities have some work to do to be able to provide adequate support to students who have mental health diagnoses,...

COVID may not be gone, but we’re better prepared to help each other through it

Raising awareness around mental health was at the top of Help and Hope Southcoast's list of things to achieve when we started this blog...

A lesson in understanding anxiety

A few weeks back a friend of mine accepted an invitation to visit my house for some food and conversation and to help me identify some of...

The LGBTQ+ Network supports local youth in style

As this summer season reaches its peak and we head, unavoidably, toward the start of school again, it's noteworthy to see the significant...

You are not alone

It's been fascinating to watch the conversation around mental health shift in some pretty significant ways over the past year. What was...

Don't miss this documentary on mental health

At some point during Help & Hope's mental health event last week, I had a moment to mentally step back and notice that we had a robust...

Changing attitudes around addiction starts with a better understanding of the disease

As we’ve learned so painfully in this country, it is hard to change people’s minds about the things we believe. Telling us facts just...

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