Mental Health Resources

The year has felt unrelenting, so I wanted to share some resources that I've come across, share with students about taking care of yourselves, your students, your communities. 

And like twitter, these are not endorsements, but just a landing page of resources of resources and other thoughts too. 

I'll also continue to update these so if you have ones to add, please let me know. 

To start, I've appreciated this article from the New York Times, which talks about languishing to help explain the "blah" feeling that's been particularly heightened by the pandemic. 

POC-related mental health resources

• Here are 44 Mental Health Resources for Black People Trying to Survive in This Country from Self
• Here are 55 Mental Health Resources for People of Color from Online Social Work (which include specific resources for People of Color at large, Black People and African Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Latinx Americans, and Native Americans and Alaska Natives
• Resources about Race and Mental Health by Project Lets

Therapy-related resources 

• Resources and advice in considering therapy and questions to ask a therapist from Self
• Directories for finding mental health professionals & therapists of color

Websites and Instagram accounts I've appreciated (with a description of their account)

• @NapMinistry "We examine the liberating power of naps. We believe rest is a form of resistance and reparations. We install Nap Experiences. Founded in 2016."
• Black Liturgies "a project seeking to integrate the truths of Black dignity, lament, rage, justice, and rest into written prayers. You can follow the project on Instagram @blackliturgies"
  
• @AsianMentalHealthCollective​ "Building a community for Asian mental health support"
• @alex_elle  "Writing to Heal Facilitator."
• @_LisaOlivera "Here for radical acceptance, deep compassion, integrating our stories, and embracing our full humanity."

Thinking about the relationship between media, trauma, and care
Recognizing the impact of videos and trauma from watching violence and death, utilize your settings and turn off the functions so that videos do not automatically play. And of course, please do not share any videos and consider using content warnings for links that may use automatic video playing.