Updated "Children's Mental Health Matters" with links NAMI MH 2019

2. Wear Green …
to kick off May is
Mental Health
Awareness Month !

4. Host A
a mental health literacy program for students, staff, and parents.

6. For more information on
Ending the Silence, please visit:
https://www.nami.org/Find-
Support/NAMI-Programs/NAMI-
Ending-the-Silence

7. http://hudsonvalleynewsnetwork.com/2016/02
/07/ending-silence-signs-recognize-mental-
illness/
Ending the Silence at Spackenkill High School
Senator Sue Serino at Ending the Silence

8. Participate in the
NAMI NYS RIBBON CAMPAIGN
An anti-stigma, awareness campaign

10. How many of you have noticed the white ribbons tied to the trees outside your school today?
Since 1949,
May has been dedicated to Mental Health Awareness Month.
(Your School) and will be tying ribbons on your campus along to support the importance of
mental health for the month of May.
This is a campaign to educate the community, to let them know that it’s ok to ask for help, and to surrounding
mental illness.
A mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily
functioning.
Mental illnesses are just as credible as a medical conditions like diabetes and heart disease.
Anyone who is struggling with mental illness can get help and recover and lead a happy and productive life.
It is important to remember to keep BOTH a
Find Help. Find Hope.
Create a
PSA…
to create awareness!

11. Start the day
with a fact
or
a positive aphorism
about mental illness.

12. stigma egg art

15. for a day…

18. Stomp
Out
The
Stigma

19. Ways to Relieve
Stress,
Anxiety
and Depression…
Positive ways to maintain

21. Create a Photo Quilt

23. Kevin Breel
Confessions of a
Depressed Comic
Start the conversation…
#Ok2Talk

24. Click above to start TED Talk

25. Host
an
”iMatter”
Art Show

26. Take the pledge…

27. Have your students sign the
#IAMSTIGMAfree banner

28. POST on your

29. https://www.mentalhealthednys.org/
Email: schools@mhanys.org
Phone: 518.434.0439

30. Encourage your faculty, staff and
students to DOWNLOAD on their devices
YOUR LOCAL RESOURCES!

31. Host a Mental Health Fair at your school !
Invite local mental health organizations
to participate in a mental health resource day!

32. Mental-E Emotional-E
Physical-E
HOST A Triple-E Day

33. 1 in 5

34. Chalk About it…
Students creatively express themselves
through sidewalk art and slogans.

35. Hand print project

37. For more information,
please contact:
contact@namimidhudson.org
845-206-9892