{"id":21272,"date":"2024-05-02T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/?p=21272"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:36:34","slug":"consumer-health-minute-mental-health-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-mental-health-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Health Minute: Mental Health Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mental health is important at every stage of life and having a mental health condition can affect physical health. You, your library, and your organization can help by providing access to resources and information, and by raising awareness to help support family members, friends, and colleagues. Below are just a few resources to consider:<\/p>\n<p>SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/mental-health-awareness-month\/toolkit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental Health Awareness<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21273\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21273\" class=\" wp-image-21273\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/mham-2024-week-2-post-3-300x300.png\" alt=\"Mental Health Awareness MonthYou play a role in your family's mental health. Be their support. \nImage of a family facing a sunset.\" width=\"204\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/mham-2024-week-2-post-3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/mham-2024-week-2-post-3-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/mham-2024-week-2-post-3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/mham-2024-week-2-post-3-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/mham-2024-week-2-post-3.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">image from the SAMHSA Mental Health Awareness Month toolkit<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/mental-health-awareness-month\/toolkit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toolkit<\/a> includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Key Messages and Weekly Themes to help you create impactful content for various audiences.<\/li>\n<li>Social Media Shareables, including posts, graphics, and animations that you can share with followers on your social media platforms.<\/li>\n<li>Hashtags and Best Practices, including #MHAM2024, #MentalHealthAwareness, #MentalHealthMatters, and others to help promote and spark conversations about mental health on social media.<\/li>\n<li>Digital Stickers to highlight Mental Health Awareness Month in social media stories and posts.<\/li>\n<li>Email Signatures to signify your commitment to mental health awareness.<\/li>\n<li>Virtual Meeting Backgrounds to serve as backdrops for your virtual meetings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And learn more about what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/mental-health-awareness-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">activities SAMHSA has planned through the month of May<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NIH National Institute of Health\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nimh.nih.gov\/get-involved\/digital-toolkit-for-mental-health-awareness-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Toolkit for Mental Health Awareness Month<\/a> with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sample messages for social media and email<\/li>\n<li>hashtags<\/li>\n<li>digital shareables<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MedlinePlus health topic pages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/mentalhealth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental Health<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/childmentalhealth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Child Mental Health<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/teenmentalhealth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teen Mental Health<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/postpartumdepression.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Postpartum Depression<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/olderadultmentalhealth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Older Adult Mental Health<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/howtoimprovementalhealth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Improve Mental Health<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mentalhealth\/index.htm\">CDC Mental Health<\/a> section has lots of resources including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Children\u2019s mental health<\/li>\n<li>Teen mental health<\/li>\n<li>Coping with disasters or traumatic events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NNLM Resources for Public Libraries Guide \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/public-libraries\/resources-for-public-libraries?tab=6\">Behavioral and Mental Health tab<\/a><br \/>\nThough this resource is primarily for public libraries, all organizations and individuals may find the resources and information helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental health is important at every stage of life and having a mental health condition can affect physical health. You, your library, and your organization can help by providing access to resources and information, and by raising awareness to help support family members, friends, and colleagues. Below are just a few resources to consider: SAMHSA&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-mental-health-resources\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,457,10,355],"tags":[119,254,57,176,179],"class_list":["post-21272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-health","category-consumer-health-minute","category-health-observances","category-mental-health","tag-consumer-health","tag-health-information","tag-health-literacy","tag-mental-health","tag-national-health-observances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21274,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21272\/revisions\/21274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}