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MHM2016-Activities-List
Douglas County hand tree
Douglas (County) Counseling and Supportive Services did four days of art/craft activities: two days to make green ribbons that get placed at different partners/businesses in the community, and two days to create a giant tree with hand prints of clients and staff with the saying “Together for a Stigma Free Community." The tree is in the lobby and as clients come in they can add their hand print. On May 19, the facility will hosting a consumer appreciation luncheon. For children there are stress balls and other giveaway gadgets and kids are decorating one of the windows with the help of their therapist and putting their hand prints on the tree.
Fernley Counseling Open House
Fernley Counseling and Supportive Services will hold an open house from 8 to 10 a.m. on May 25 in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. Community members are welcome to come meet the staff and learn about the services available there.
Tonopah Girl Scouts Earn Mental Health Awareness Patch
Tonopah Girl Scouts Troop 292 are working toward their Mental Health Awareness Patch created by the International Bipolar Foundation. The purpose of the patch is to increase understanding of mental illness and how it may affect their community; its purpose is to create "mental health ambassadors" by helping spread the word about mental illness and how stigma affects people who suffer from mental illness.
Each Girl Scout has to complete a number of activities to earn this badge, such as learn what it means to have a mental illness, what organ of the body is affected and what kind of symptoms the individual may experience. Find five famous people who suffer from mental illness and create a collage, explain three different ways mental illness is treated; define "stigma" and report how it could affect someone with mental illness; and interview someone who has suffered from mental illness and report how they have been affected by stigma. They must also volunteer at a function that addresses the needs of those with mental illness, research bipolar disorder, and last but not least they must share what they have learned about mental illness and stigma with the troop, and people their own age outside the troop.
These girls were very excited to learn about mental health and the stigma associated with mental illness, and they will be working toward earning this badge for the next few months. Their goal for their next meeting is to create mental health awareness pins and send them off in their next Girl Scout swap and explain mental health awareness in their swap letter.
Awareness materials from Rural Children’s Mental Health Consortium
Christy Childs, Londa Manteufel, Kim Garcia, Michelle Sandoval and Peggy Jones (left to right) from the Elko Counseling and Supportive Services show off the the posters, water bottles and stress balls that were delivered along the I-80 corridor by the Rural Children’s Mental Health Consortium.
