Through the month of Could in honor of Psychological Well being Consciousness Month, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County is holding its largest psychological well being consciousness marketing campaign thus far, in keeping with educator Cara Weiner Sultan.
“What we’ve completed this yr is we’ve actually raised the bar,” Ms. Weiner Sultan mentioned. “We would like as a lot info, as a lot consciousness and as many assets to succeed in individuals in Suffolk County and even past and due to social media, that’s attainable.”
The crew of Household Well being and Wellness educators at Cornell Cooperative extension have put social media to make use of for this marketing campaign, which is known as “Again to Fundamentals.” Aside from utilizing social media to share a bounty of movies, articles, and weblog entries with methods to higher the psychological well being of fogeys and kids, they’re additionally utilizing it to have interaction with the general public in an modern approach.
On Fb, they’re internet hosting a self-care problem for the month, the place customers can share how they follow of self-care and essentially the most artistic one will win a present card on the finish of the month.
“We’re making an attempt to make it enjoyable, proper? As a result of generally the subject of psychological well being will be heavy,” Ms. Weiner Sultan mentioned.
The crew of educators with specialties in social work, public well being, maternal well being, diet, guardian coaching, stress discount and extra, labored onerous to develop the applications they’re now providing, she mentioned.
“We do loads of brainstorming classes…we attempt to be artistic,” Ms. Weiner Sultan mentioned “[We] additionally attempt to tune in to what’s related, what individuals in Suffolk County need to see.”
One of many applications they developed informs dad and mom learn how to discuss to their kids concerning the warfare in Ukraine and different tough subjects like managing grief and loss.
The extension’s group schooling weblog has entries that cowl points like learn how to cope when feeling overwhelmed by the information, together with toddler and toddler psychological well being. Their podcasts have episodes that contact on household emotional well being throughout tough instances. Different episodes focus on mindfulness, learn how to handle stress and turning into extra resilient.
They may run two reside applications on Zoom each week this month to the touch on completely different elements of psychological well being. The primary one, hosted on Could 4 was titled, Elevating Resilient Youngsters. Others arising are: Caring for your self: Managing grief and loss; Stress Much less: Mindfulness for Stress aid.
Whereas the reside Zoom chats and podcasts are in English, they’ve additionally compiled assets for Spanish audio system on their web site as properly.
All these assets are centered on prevention and schooling, Ms. Weiner Sultan mentioned. They developed them in as many codecs as attainable so the general public can devour the content material within the format they like.
“Hopefully, it’ll be simply accessible for individuals … no matter approach they need to study greatest, or no matter they want. We’re hoping to satisfy their wants and simply get the subject of psychological well being on the market,” Ms. Weiner Sultan mentioned.
Aside from the “very small … however very passionate,” crew of Household Well being and Wellness educators, Ms. Weiner Sultan additionally credit CCE board member, Erica Posniak, with being instrumental in serving to with this marketing campaign.
For entry to all of the assets the CCE Household Well being and Wellness educators supply, go to ccesuffolk.org.
