NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER

🙏 It's Gratitude Month! 🙏

SAVE THE DATE! Tuesday, November 28th, 2023 is Giving Tuesday!

Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past 10 years, this idea has grown into a year-round global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity. People can show their generosity in a variety of ways during Giving Tuesday⁠⁠—whether it’s helping a neighbor, advocating for an issue, sharing a skill, or giving to causes, everyone has something to give and every act of generosity counts.

What is Giving Tuesday?

Giving Tuesday is an opportunity for people around the world to stand together in unity⁠⁠—to use their individual power of generosity to remain connected and heal.

People can show their generosity in a variety of ways during Giving Tuesday⁠⁠—whether it’s helping a neighbor, advocating for an issue, sharing a skill, or giving to causes, everyone has something to give and every act of generosity counts.

Generosity is what brings people of all races, faiths, and political views together across the globe. Generosity gives everyone the power to make a positive change in the lives of others and is a fundamental value anyone can act on.

We all have gifts to give, and with social media, online giving, delivery, mail, and phones, there are limitless ways to use your generosity to support others.

MENTAL HEALTH IN THE NEWS

Health Workers Face a Mental Health Crisis

This month’s CDC Vital Signs highlights the urgent need to address the mental health of our nation’s health workers. CDC’s Vital Signs report spotlights serious health threats like mental health issues, and the science-based actions that can be taken to address health worker mental health.

States sue Meta claiming its social platforms are addictive and harm children’s mental health

Dozens of U.S. states, including California and New York, are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people and contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly and deliberately designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to its platforms.

Ohio education officials taking a closer look at student athlete mental health

In Ohio, state education leaders are taking a closer look at the mental health of student athletes. A new requirement for coaches went into effect this month provides more training to deal with mental health issues.

Social Responsibility Champion: NAMI Greater Cleveland

“If I had a broken leg, I wouldn’t hesitate to go to the doctor,” Rice said. “Having a mental health condition handicaps us the same way a broken leg does. But because it’s invisible, we push it away. More people than we know are fighting a battle just to get out of bed in the morning. … A huge portion of our population is walking around with a broken leg.”

If there’s anything we’ve learned from the pandemic, it’s that the world is feeling stressed out and many are burned out - the pandemic has been a source of additional trauma. As the pandemic raged on, many have also felt “blah,” and it turns out there’s a name for that—it’s languishing. We may feel stuck. We can move from languishing to flourishing. It starts with understanding stress, what causes stress, and where we hold stress. Learning ways to cope with stress can help each of us manage our daily lives - moving from survival-mode to thrival-mode.

Join NAMI Greater Cleveland for Moving from Languishing to Flourishing: Healing from Compassion Fatigue and Caregiver Burnout on Tuesday, November 7 at 12pm via Zoom. Facilitated by Kristi Horner, Founder and Executive Director, and Jenny Woodworth, LISW, Program Director in partnership with Courage to Caregivers, this workshop will cover the difference between compassion fatigue and burnout before moving into understanding stress and the effects of trauma, including pandemic trauma and stressors.

Learn More and Register Here

As the holidays approach, some among us are keenly aware that a death, divorce, health crisis or move will have an impact, and it can’t be business as usual. We may be trying to make peace with stark or subtle changes: absent friends and family, climate-related disasters, the divisions among us, or simply trying to prepare a Thanksgiving or other holiday meal that seems overwhelming, if not impossible, this year.

No matter which holidays you celebrate, there might be new or refreshed traditions, habits and practices that bring comfort, consolation and even hopeful transformation and serve as a healing balm for the wounded spirit. Join NAMI Greater Cleveland, in partnership with Kim Langley, author of Send My Roots Rain: A Companion on the Grief Journey, for A Balm for Blue Holidays: Comfort and Creativity after Life Change or Loss on Monday, November 13 at 12pm via Zoom. This program will provide support and validation so that we may find it easier to offer a welcome to winter, to changed holiday experiences, to our own anxieties and hopes.

Learn More and Register Here

ILTHY & YSM CLOTHING COLLABORATION

Come celebrate the release of a collaborative collection to raise awareness for suicide prevention month.

Four limited edition pieces were created in partnership with Cleveland-based clothing company Ilthy and YSM Clothing Company

A portion of the profits from the collection will be donated to NAMI of Greater Cleveland.

Click the links below to check out the collection and not only support NAMI Greater Cleveland but local businesses as well!

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PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT

APAPACHO Grupo de Apoyo para Familiares de NAMI

APAPACHO (abrazar con el alma) es un Grupo de Apoyo para Familiares. Este es un grupo libre, confidencial y seguro para ayudar a las familias afectadas por condición mental de un ser querido.

Las familias se unen en grupos de cuidado y se ayudan los unos a otros mediante el uso de sus experiencias y aprendizajes de cómo lidiar con las condiciones mentales.

La próxima sesión es el 8 de noviembre de 19:00 a 20:30 horas.

Registrar aquí

NAMI GC RESOURCES

NAMI Caring Companion Calls

The Free Caring Companion Calls program Provides Supportive Mentoring & Companionship to Adult Peers (those living with a mental health condition), and Friends, Family Members, and Caregivers.

Our Caring Companions are extensively trained volunteers who are peers and loved ones of peers with a lived mental health condition. Specifically, the Caring Companion volunteer is a person who is skilled in patience, compassion, empathy, and effective communication.

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NAMI Greater Cleveland Helpline

The NAMI Greater Cleveland Helpline is a free peer-support service providing information, resource referrals, and support to people living with mental health conditions, their family members and caregivers, mental health providers, and the public.

Helpline staff and volunteers are experienced, well-trained, and able to provide guidance.

The NAMI Greater Cleveland Helpline does not provide a hotline, crisis line, or suicide prevention line service. If you or someone you know is experiencing a crisis, please call 911 or the 24-hour Mobile Crisis Team at 216-623-6888.

Call: 216-875-7776

Monday - Friday from

9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

or via email at

helpline@namicleveland.org

Call, Text, or Chat 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

Dial 911 for emergencies.

NAMI Parent Advocacy Connection

The mission of the PAC Program is to empower, educate, encourage, and equip families to partner with professionals in promoting access to family-centered, community-based, comprehensive, and culturally competent services.

PAC is a NAMI Ohio grassroots program that offers trained Parent Advocates with lived experience who reflect the cultural and ethnic make-up of the families they serve. Click here to learn more

HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT

Members of NAMI Greater Cleveland are part of NAMI's movement to improve the mental health system, to end stigma, and create a culture of knowledge and understanding about mental illness.

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