Mental Health Resources for those with special needs
What does mental health look like for those of us caring for loved ones with disabilities? How can we support them while still tending to our own needs?
Exceptional Lives has a few ideas in their latest podcast episode.
Exceptional Lives provides free disability resources and support for families caring for children with disabilities
Get Connected - Stay Well
The Northshore Community Foundation, recently worked with National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) - St. Tammany to offer FREE THERAPY to Northshore residents - connecting those with a licensed online therapist from anywhere, at any time, at no cost.
The anniversaries of both Hurricane Ida and Hurricane Katrina was a tricky time for some of us. Both events had an enormous amount of impact on the Northshore, causing for an extended processing time. The road to recovery is not always smooth, but reaching out for help can now be easy, discreet and completely confidential.
Why the Northshore?
Regionally, there is extremely limited capacity of existing mental health providers to add additional patients. Couple access problems with other barriers to treatment like perceived stigma, affordability and work/life appointment time conflicts and we have a segment of our population who needs help but is not getting it.
The purpose of this initiative was to disrupt the pattern of increased suicide and capture analytics to document life-saving success.
Countless studies on mental health effects following natural disasters establish a well-documented pattern. Research shows that there is a marked increase in completed suicides within a 2-year window following a natural disaster event and, in our region, there has been an average increase of 41% of completed suicides in the two years following each local disaster, including Hurricanes Katrina, Gustav, Isaac, and the 2016 March floods.