May is Mental Health Awareness Month! Take the time to know what mental health support resources are available locally if you live in Tompkins County. Resources are helpful to those experiencing mental health disorders, as well as to their families and friends. If you are at all concerned about your mental health, or about a loved one or someone you know, stay up to date about mental health and how to get help. You may even save a life.
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Here are some national online resources to check out:
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
NAMI is America’s largest grassroots mental health organization, with hundreds of local affiliates, state organizations, and volunteers who raise awareness and provide support and education.
Mental Health America is a non-profit organization that provides mental health advocacy, education and services to a specific service area, such as a state, county or metropolitan area. Affiliates bring together mental health consumers, parents, advocates and service providers for collaboration and action to inform, support and enable mental wellness, and emphasize recovery from mental illness.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)
AFSP’s mission is to save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide. Its five core strategies include funding scientific research; offering educational programs for professionals; educating the public about mood disorders and suicide prevention; promoting policies and legislation that impact suicide and prevention; providing programs and resources for survivors of suicide loss and people at risk.
Trained and caring counselors support people (or their loved ones) with mental health struggles, emotional distress, alcohol or drug use concerns. Free and confidential calls 24/7/365.
The Child Mind Institute is an independent, national nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders. Its teams work to deliver the highest standards of care, advance the science of the developing brain, and empower parents, professionals, and policymakers to support children when and where they need it most.
Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide (SPTS)
Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide is an information and training resource for community and professional organizations, educators, and parents. SPTS’s aim is to reduce the number of youth suicides and attempted suicides by encouraging public awareness through the development and promotion of educational training programs.
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24.
The Steve Fund is the nation’s only organization focused on supporting the mental health and emotional well-being of college students of color. It works with colleges and universities, outstanding non-profits, researchers, practitioners, and with groups serving diverse populations to stimulate dialogue and promote effective programs and strategies that build understanding and assistance for the mental and emotional health of the nation’s students of color as they enter, matriculate in, and transition from higher education.
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