”What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience …”
– Hannah Arendt
ED’s guide to supporting students' mental health has resources to assist school communities, including examples of how other schools are addressing their mental health needs: https://t.co/UVGXPDewzg #WednesdayWisdom
Mental health is important for everyone, but especially young people as they navigate the path to adulthood. Share @samhsagov's teen mental health tips with your students: https://t.co/m9qSO3EkGO #MentalHealthMonth
It is with great sorrow that Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. shares the passing of our beloved National President and Chair of the National Board of Directors, Cheryl A. Hickmon. President Hickmon transitioned peacefully on January 20, 2022 after a recent illness.
#DST1913
Being serious about *community power*, IME, involves some very painful processes: checking our privileges; looking at what authority we’re currently holding that’s been appropriated from ppl; ceasing possession of assets; & actively relocating these into citizen space/commons.
Quote of the week from me comes from a wise and frank leader in the Hospice movement, whom I had the privilege of interviewing around #ABCD and Hospice care: “People die twice, first socially, then physically. We need to pay more attention to the first.”
“Social support is not the same as merely being in the presence of others. The critical issue is reciprocity.”(van der Kolk and Sky, 2014)- https://t.co/YsfuRICW3r - great post by @drjulianabel well worth checking out! C
@CormacRussell Its such a simple notion and a slight narrative flip. Most aren't self aware yet and they're unclear on how they show up in a space as a problem solver or agitator.
If you focus on sickness, you’re going to end up with doctors as the key actors. If you focus on well-being, you’re going to end up with communities as key actors. #ABCD
Health is not a medical issue, it’s a social & political issue. If we want 2 enhance health & wellbeing we need 2 relocate authority from the institutional world of programmes & services to living communities where interdependence is found.
Tomorrow, wear green, snap a photo & post using #GYGO2021 and #GetYourGreenOn in support of the Get Your Green on campaign to bring greater awareness to May's Mental Health Awareness and Trauma Informed Care Month.
Thank you @comcast for opening @Xfinity WiFi Network nationally for free for 2 months. This will help students, who don’t have WiFi, receive digital instructions if necessary. Learn more:
https://t.co/7Dy6XKwJ9f