Stories about Mental Health Awareness Month
AFSP Encourages Building Resilience This Mental Health Awareness Month
With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is encouraging people to build mental health resilience in communities nationwide by going beyond the basics of self-care.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Deepens Awareness of #TalkAwayTheDark and Launches New Guide to Have Difficult Conversations During Mental Health Awareness Month
This Mental Health Awareness Month, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is empowering people to have brave conversations about mental health, and to lean in and ask directly about suicide if struggles are not improving.
Turning Listening into Legislation: Advocating for More Accessible and Affordable Mental Health Care
Your story is the opening to an ongoing conversation with your representatives. Our job as advocates is to make sure that listening becomes legislation.
Join Me in Advocating for Suicide Prevention Research Funding
When it comes to suicide prevention, there are many important things for which we need to advocate. As the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Vice President of Research, funding for suicide prevention research is at the top of my list!
How Do You Support #MentalHealth4All For the People in Your Life
We all have different experiences with our own mental health, and our own preferred methods of care and support. We wanted to hear how you, personally, help care for the people in your life, so we put the question out on our @afspnational social media channels. Here’s how some of you responded!
How Do You Support #MentalHealth4All: For Your Community
We all have different experiences with our own mental health, and our own preferred methods of care and support. We wanted to hear how you, personally, support #MentalHealth4All in your community, so we put the question out on our @afspnational social media channels. Here’s how some of you responded!
How Do You Support #MentalHealth4All For Yourself
We all have different experiences with our own mental health, and our own preferred methods of care and support. We wanted to hear how you, personally, care for your own mental health, so we put the question out on our @afspnational social media channels. Here’s how some of you responded!
Video Tips on How to Have a #RealConvo About Mental Health
For Mental Health Awareness Month, we’ve been encouraging people to have a #RealConvo about mental health.
If Someone Tells You They’re Thinking About Suicide: A #RealConvo Guide from AFSP
How should you respond? What can you do to connect them to help?
Reaching Out for Help: A #RealConvo Guide from AFSP
Here is some straightforward guidance for having a conversation that can make all the difference.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and Instagram Launch Mental Health Campaign #RealConvo
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, AFSP is launching a public awareness campaign with Instagram called #RealConvo
How to Start (and Continue!) a Conversation About Mental Health: A #RealConvo Guide from AFSP
Here are some quick pointers you can use for having a #RealConvo with the people in your life.