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How Making Art Helps Improve Mental Health
With depression and anxiety on the rise during the pandemic, more professionals may adopt art therapy as a treatment
The Curated Life
By Mary Kay DuChene
"Loneliness is pervasive in the U.S. If you can remember that one fact, then maybe it will be easier to reach out the next time you feel lonely. You’ll not only be helping yourself, you’ll be helping out a friend."
The Church and the Response to the Mental Health Crisis featuring Matthew Stanford
MHTTC New England offers Seasonal Affective Disorder: Responding to the Winter Blues in the Classroom online toolkit for care providers.
How to Decolonize Mental Health Treatment for BIPOC
Although things are changing within mental health communities, only a few mental health professionals have competent awareness of cultural and racial identity, let alone incorporate this awareness in clinical treatment.
by Gabes Torres
ILLUSTRATION BY GOOD STUDIO/ADOBE STOCK
by Jasmin Joseph
Focuses on Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community and includes a List of Free Addiction Treatment Resources in Minnesota.
by Lisa Witherspoon, Director of Children’s Ministries, First Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, NC
Butterfly Prayer — The butterfly prayer in Traci Smith's Faithful Families is a simple practice that anchors us to breath, calm, and movement. She recommended it as a practice to teach children for times of stress and anxiety. This old VIDEO features Smith's boys sharing the practice.
To Improve Student Mental Health, We Need More Than Crisis Response
By Kevin Singer and Sam Ludlow-Broback 
A Mental Health & Gen Z Conversation with Adiam, 25 & Daniel, 24
Hear Adiam and Daniel talk about their perceptions and experiences surrounding Gen Z and mental health.
By Springtide; Season 7
Mental Health Connect provides community-based resources, support and education to improve access to mental health services and to connect individuals and families with the services they need.
Resources from M Health Fairview Interfaith Health Collaborative:
Preventing Marijuana Use Among Youth
The goal of this guide is to review the literature on prevention of marijuana use among youth, distill the research into recommendations for practice, and provide examples of the ways these recommendations can be implemented.
The Center of Addiction & Faith: Weekly Virtual Meetings
