Each Mind Matters Insider: October 2018

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OCTOBER 2018
Keep the Momentum Going: Using Mental Health Awareness Resources All Year Long

Although Mental Health Awareness Week is over, our work continues: we will keep spreading awareness about the importance of mental health and speaking out against the stigma around mental illness.

Each Mind Matters' Mental Health Awareness Week toolkit contains valuable resources that can be customized to raise awareness in your community and help reduce the stigma surrounding mental health challenges. Just because Mental Health Awareness Week is over doesn't mean you can't use these resources all year long!

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Active Minds: Send Silence Packing California Tour

The Spring 2019 tour of Send Silence Packing display is accepting applications! Display dates are filling up quickly. Universities, colleges, community colleges, (2 and 4 year and vocational/career) and nonprofits in California can apply to host this nationally renowned suicide awareness building display.

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Coming Up

Suicide Prevention: Youth Suicide Prevention in Schools and Communities
Date and Time: October 23, 2018 at 1 p.m.
During the webinar from Each Mind Matters, we will provide next steps in advancing suicide prevention for youth in schools and communities. This webinar will go beyond general information about school-based suicide prevention, and will feature guest speakers to cover specific topics including:

Policy updates to go beyond AB2246. A review of revisions to the state mandate, new policy updates and potential future opportunities available for staff and student engagement (featuring the California Department of Education).
Responding after a suicide death in the school community. Lessons learned and the importance of having a “Postvention Plan” in place directly from a California High School's first-hand experiences.
How to engage parents in mental health and suicide prevention. Using the innovative initiative “What I Wish My Parents Knew” as a way to bring parents and the community together.
The Directing Change Program and Film Contest. Hear from educators who have introduced the program and incorporated it into their curriculums to hit key education requirements.

To Register: Youth Suicide Prevention

Frameworks for Mobilizing Students for Mental Health
Date and Time: October 30, 2018 at 1 p.m.
Campus faculty and administrators won't want to miss this free one-hour webinar from Active Minds moderated by their Associate Director of Programs Becky Fein, MPH. The group will discuss recent research on how campuses can activate students to significantly increase mental health awareness and education.
Participants will:

Learn about the key findings of the landmark RAND study that demonstrates the efficacy of student-powered advocacy on campus.
Hear from a student and advisor who built a sustaining presence of Active Minds on their campus
Explore tangible steps taken by schools who have been nationally recognized for their innovative and resourceful mental health efforts on campus
Delve into the Active Minds “Framework for Mobilizing Students for Mental Health for Faculty, Staff, and Administration: Offering Students SEATS at the Table”

To Register: Student Mental Health

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