This document provides information and suggestions for activities and events to promote mental health awareness and reduce stigma during Mental Health Awareness Month in May. It encourages hosting a mental health literacy program for students and staff, participating in the NAMI ribbon campaign, starting each day with a mental health fact, hosting an art show and poster contest on reducing stigma, and inviting local agencies to participate in a resource day at school. The goal is to educate the community, promote that it's okay to ask for help, and work to reduce stigma surrounding mental illness through various awareness and advocacy activities during the month of May.

2. Wear Green …
May 2016

4. Host A
a mental health literacy program for students

5. Parents and Teachers as Allies at
Dover Union Free School District
A Mental Health
Literacy program
for educators

6. Schedule
a
Mental Health First Aid Youth
training for your staff.

7. Participate in the
NAMI RIBBON CAMPAIGN

9. How many of you have noticed the white ribbons tied to the trees outside your school today?
Since 1949,
May has been dedicated to Mental Health Awareness Month.
(Your School) and will be tying ribbons on your campus along with twelve other towns, cities,
and villages in Dutchess and Ulster Counties to support the importance of mental health for the month of May.
This is a campaign to educate the community, to let them know that it’s ok to ask for help, and to surrounding
mental illness.
A mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily
functioning.
Mental illnesses are just as credible as a medical conditions like diabetes and heart disease.
Anyone who is struggling with mental illness can get help and recover and lead a happy and productive life.
It is important to remember to keep BOTH a
Find Help. Find Hope.
Create a PSA…
to create awareness!

10. Start the day
with a fact
or
a positive aphorism
about mental illness.

11. stigma egg art

14. for a day…

17. Stomp
Out
The
Stigma

18. Ways to Relieve
Stress,
Anxiety
and Depression…
Positive ways to maintain

20. Changing the Face
of
Mental Illness…

21. Photo Quilt

23. Poster Contest
“iMATTER”
Art Show

24. Take the pledge…

25. #IAMSTIGMAfree

26. #IAmStigmafree
Banner
www.vistaprint.com

27. POST on your

28. Encourage your faculty, staff and
students to DOWNLOAD
YOUR LOCAL RESOURCES!

30. 24 hour Crisis Hotline
Family of Woodstock, Inc
845-679-2485
or
845-338-2370

31. semi colon project
www.projectsemicolon.org

32. A semicolon
is used when an author could’ve chosen to end their
sentence, but chose not to.
The author is you and the sentence is your life.

33. Resource Table
Events

34. Poughkeepsie Family University
with
Superintendent of Poughkeepsie City
Schools: Dr. Williams
In the Community
Making a
Difference…
Children’s Mental Health
Awareness Week
Poughkeepsie NY

35. New Paltz High School
Transition Night
April 2015
Wallkill High School Health Fair
Wallkill NY
May 2015
Invite local agencies
to participate in a resource day at your
school!

36. Mental-E Emotional-E
Physical-E
HOST A Triple-E Day

37. 1 in 5

38. Chalk About it…
Students creatively express themselves
through sidewalk art and slogans.

39. Hand print project

40. attending walk

41. Thank you
Roy C. Ketcham High School
for coming out to support NAMI-MH!

43. For more information,
please contact:
Tina Lee
(845) 206-9892
(Please leave message.)
tyleemhnami@gmail.com