Mental Health Awareness Month Resources

This month we’re talking about Mental Health Awareness. We first begin talking about it when we wrestled in April with some of the challenges that we face as a nation – one primary one is loneliness and isolation which have been declared an epidemic by the surgeon general of the United States.   This has been in the news this week.  You can learn more – thinking even about how this might be an opportunity for us to minister to our neighbors and each other as we claim to be a church that is Safe, Open, and Real.

Official Web Page of the Office of the Surgeon General

Surgeon general lays out framework to tackle loneliness and ‘mend the social fabric of our nation’ | CNN

Loneliness is killing Americans. It’s time to do something. | VOX

Surgeon General discusses health risks of loneliness and steps to help connect with others | PBS News Hour

Podcast on this issue done by OnBeing.org. | “To Be A Healer”

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