The Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral Wellness is now providing free entry to Headspace — a meditation app with the objective of bettering psychological well being — to neighborhood members.
The Headspace app makes use of movies and audio periods for a number of guided meditations with focuses on decreasing stress and anxiousness, bettering focus and sleep, and way more.
The county’s Division of Behavioral Wellness has 5,000 apps to present out, though Suzanne Grimmesey, the chief high quality care and technique officer, stated that quickly it’s going to have 10,000 apps.
Grimmesey additionally stated the county is ready to provide this system by funding from California’s Mental Health Services Act.
“Popping out of the pandemic, persons are impacted,” Grimmesey stated. “It is a great, free, easy-to-use program … [Headspace] is without doubt one of the first meditation apps — a pacesetter in mindfulness.”
The division just lately led a neighborhood survey to take a look at the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on psychological well being regionally. Grimmesey stated that about 5,000 individuals responded.
Of those that responded, practically 61% reported decrease psychological well being due to COVID-19, with elevated signs of tension and despair. Moreover, 27% of respondents reported being bothered by emotions of being drained or having decrease vitality, and 24% reported hassle sleeping.
“Shifting ahead from the numerous disruption the pandemic has performed in individuals’s lives, caring for one’s psychological well being is important for self-care and constructing resiliency as people and as a neighborhood,” Grimmesey stated in a information launch asserting this system.
The Headspace app is out there in English and Spanish. Outdoors of this system, a subscription to the app would price $69.99 per 12 months if paying yearly or $12.99 monthly.
“By means of science-backed meditation and mindfulness instruments, Headspace helps you create life-changing habits to assist your psychological well being and discover a more healthy, happier you,” the app’s website states.
The web site for Headspace additionally boasts having greater than 70 million customers throughout 190 nations all over the world, in addition to research that present a 40% lower in depressive signs after eight weeks of utilizing the app, a 31% lower in anxiousness signs after eight weeks, and a 22% enhance in focus proven after only one session.
Group members who wish to enroll in this system and obtain the Headspace app at no cost can achieve this by this special link from the county.
There are additionally individuals in Behavioral Wellness’s [email protected] group who can help with enrolling and utilizing the Headspace app.
The Division of Behavioral Wellness presents many different companies for adults, youngsters and transitional-age youths experiencing psychological well being or different behavioral well being issues, similar to substance use issues. A few of the companies embrace inpatient and outpatient therapy applications, mentoring alternatives for youngsters, school-based psychological well being applications, counseling and remedy companies, and extra.
The Santa Barbara County Division of Behavioral Wellness has a 24-hour Disaster Response and Service Entry Line at 888.868.1649 that individuals can name for help accessing companies or if they’re experiencing a psychological well being disaster.
“The division can assist get them related and steer them in the proper method,” Grimmesey stated concerning the entry line.
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