This kit contains the best resources on the YouthLead website related to caring for your mental health. They are a great starting point for anyone who wants to learn more about what affects our mental health day to day, how to implement good practices into organizations and how to navigate the particularly trying and uncertain times we are currently experiencing. As mental health impacts us all, these resources are useful for anybody of any age. This kit is broken up into five webinars with some of our YouthLead members, general mental health resources/data, mental health and gender/disability, institutional research and strategy and fact sheets/infographics to be easily shared.
Webinars
- Implementing Integrated Mental Health Youth Programs - Watch the YouthLead Ambassadors share their passions, experiences, and lessons learned as young changemakers about Mental Health.
- Applying a Mental Health Lens to Youth-Focused Programming - Watch this YouthLead Skill Building Webinar with speakers from the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and More to Life International to learn how these issues can be addressed.
- Mental Health Around the World - Learn from a panel of professionals from around the world about the issues related to and strategies utilized to address mental health and well-being at universities in their country.
- Protecting Our Mental Health vs COVID-19: Coping with Anxiety and Uncertainty - Dr. Cornelio G. Banaag, Jr., a Psychiatrist from The Medical City, discussed about "Coping with Anxiety and Uncertainty" amidst the Novel Coronavirus 2019 pandemic.
- Fighting the Unseen Impacts of COVID-19 - Find tools and strategies for promoting mental health and wellbeing in ourselves and other young people during the pandemic
General Resources
- Mental Health Resources for Youth - This page discusses an array of mental health topics with solutions and prevention methods.
- General Mental Health Resources - This resource page contains valuable toolkits, webinars, articles and guides in order to understand and confront today’s most prevalent mental health issues.
- Maintaining Your Mental Health and Well-being as a Young Changemaker - This page offers young changemakers facts and solutions for improving mental health.
- WHO Suicide Data - This data page provided by the WHO describes how suicide affects our communities around the world.
- How to Deal with Anxiety - Experiencing some anxiety when facing difficult decisions or life changes is normal, but when that anxiety interferes with daily life it becomes a disorder.
- Mental Health in the Workplace- This booklet discusses the economic cost of mental ill health, demystifies mental illness, stress and stress management in the workplace, alcohol and substance use and the workplace and creating a psychologically healthy workplace.
Mental Health and Gender, Disability
- Gendered Impacts of Bullying on Mental Health Among Adolescents in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: Recommendations for Programming and Research - Poor mental health was assessed using questions across six countries that focused on feeling lonely, worry that affected sleep, and suicide plans within the past 12 months.
- Change of LGBTI+ Needs and Mental Health – What Needs To Be Done? - This article from the Speak Act Change organization proposes solutions for addressing mental health needs within the LGBTI+ community.
Institutional Research/Campaigns
- Changing the Rules: A Guide for Youth and Young Adults with Mental Health Conditions Who Want to Change Policy -This policy guide is useful for anyone and any organization that wants to learn about how to change mental health policies.
- WHO Mental Health Action Plan 2013 - 2030 - This plan sets out clear actions for Member States, the WHO Secretariat and international, regional and national partners to promote mental health and well-being for all, to prevent mental health conditions for those at-risk and to achieve universal coverage for mental health services. It's available in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish.
- Leading Minds Conference on Child and Adolescent Mental Health - Learn what issues were discussed during 2019’s Leading Minds Conference on child and adolescent mental health with this blog post.
- Suicide Prevention - This resource page provided by the WHO has toolkits, videos, and a fact sheet to aid suicide prevention.
Fact Sheet/Infographics
- Mental Health Fact Sheet - This page provides a mental health fact sheet for anyone interested in understanding more about mental health. The fact sheet is easily downloadable and sharable.
- Infographic ‘Words Matter’ - The way we talk about mental health [English and French version] - This page highlights- in two different languages- the use of words that impacts mental health.
- Mental Health Kit: Mental Health Bingo (Self Care Edition) - This page provides a toolkit containing 24 recommendations to improve your mental health in a fun and sharable Bingo game format. Perfect for sharing across social media platforms!
Discussions
- How does the mental health system work in your country?
- Want to learn more about implementing integrated youth mental health programs?
Now What? Putting the Starter Kit into Action
- Start the conversation with those around you about mental health to de-stigmatize it! Take a look at this fact sheet for some topics.
- Share mental health resources with your network on social media and at meetings with different teams you’re a part of so people feel welcomed and supported! Tag YouthLead in your posts!
- Get involved in changing mental health policy by reading this guide - Changing the Rules: A Guide for Youth and Young Adults with Mental Health Conditions Who Want to Change Policy.
- Evaluate your success using the SMART Goals: A How to Guide rubric, making adjustments accordingly.