December 2017 Mental Health Awareness

December:
A month to think of OTHERS
as we celebrate

by Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, CTP, CMC, ACT, MCC, SCAC
Part of the Mental Health Awareness series

It takes one person to make a difference —
just think of what thousands can do.
~ Psychology Today 2016 Awareness Calendar

Mark your blogging calendars

Each year is peppered with a great many special dates dedicated to raising awareness about important emotional, physical and psychological health issues.

In addition to a calendar for the current month, each Awareness post offers a list highlighting important days and weeks that impact mental health, along with those that remain in place for the entire month.

If I’ve missed anything, please let me know in the comments below so that I can add it to the list.

Attention Bloggers: As always, if you write (or have written) an article that adds content to this post, feel free to leave a link in the comment section and I will move it into its appropriate category.

WinCalendar — Found HERE

 

Awareness and Advocacy Dates for December

Remember: If you write (or have written) an article that adds content to any of these categories, feel free to leave a link in the comment section and I will move it into its appropriate category.

Found HERE

 

World Aids Day
December 1
Worlds AIDS Day
World Health Organization [WHO] on Aids Day

 

National Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week
December 1-7
Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation

 

International Day of Persons with Disabilities
December 3

United Nations on Disabilities Day 2017
United Nations on Disabilities Day 2016
World Health Organization on Disabilities Day

 

National Roof Over Your Head Day – USA
December 3
ABOUT Roof over your Head Day

This Day was created as a day to be thankful for what we have, starting with the roof over our heads – and to encourage each of us become part of the solution for those less fortunate.

Created to bring Awareness to the increasing number of homeless individuals, even in first world countries — currently estimated at 100 million people, with 1.6 BILLION seen as having inadequate housing for themselves and their families.

Roof Over Your Head Day is intended to serve as a call to charity, advocacy and social responsibility. There ARE solutions, and we need to insist on them.

For example, according to the website linked above:

Salt Lake City, Utah discovered it was paying $20,000 a year to handle their homeless problem, totaling policing, arrests, healthcare, jail time, and more.

As both a cost-cutting initiative as well as a humanitarian one, they began to build homes for their homeless for $7,800 a year.

Since then, homelessness in the city has dropped by 72%,
saving the town $12,200 a year.

In addition to contacting your local, state and national representatives to insist that they address this problem immediately, there are any number of other things you can do to honor National Roof Over Your Head Day:

* pick a name or several off of a Christmas Giving Tree in your area,
* volunteer at a food kitchen, and/or
* make a contribution to a local homeless shelter to help with running expenses, so that others might have a roof over their heads — this night and nights to come.

Use #RoofOverYourHeadDay on social media
to post support, advocacy, articles or actions.

 

National Day of Remembrance and Action
on Violence Against Women’s Rights Day (Canada)
December 6
National Day of Remembrance and Action

Established in 1991 by the Parliament of Canada, marking the anniversary of the murders in 1989 of 14 young women at l’École Polytechnique de Montréal who died because they were women

 

National Homeless Persons’ Remembrance Day
December 21 – First Day of Winter
The National Coalition for the Homeless

Found HERE

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Thanks again to Terri Mauro, Parenting Special Needs Expert from the VeryWell.com site for many of the links that formed the genesis of some of the Awareness articles. Other links to other lists can be found below (in the Related Content section at the bottom of the majority of my articles), with my appreciation.

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You might also be interested in some of the following articles
available right now – on this site and elsewhere.

For links in context: run your cursor over the article above and the dark grey links will turn dark red;
(subtle, so they don’t pull focus while you read, but you can find them to click when you’re ready for them)
— and check out the links to other Related Content in each of the articles themselves —

Related articles right here on ADDandSoMuchMore.com
(in case you missed them above or below)

COACHING LINKS at end of all posts

• Brain-based Coaching with Madelyn Griffith-Haynie
• Brain-based Coaching Fees & Formats
• The Group Coaching LinkList – explaining how this format works

Related articles here on ADDandSoMuchMore.com

• Motivation and Gratitude
• Three Tiny Things – a different kind of Gratitude List
• What Kind of World do YOU Want?
• LinkList to all current What Kind of World do YOU Want? articles

Related Articles ’round the net

• Homelessness – Growing for Four Decades
• Resources Directory for Homeless Assistance
• US Food Pantry Resources by State
• Criminalization of Homelessness — Civil Rights

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As always, if you want notification of new articles in this Series – or any new posts on this blog – give your email address to the nice form on the top of the skinny column to the right. (You only have to do this once, so if you’ve already asked for notification about a prior series, you’re covered for this one too). STRICT No Spam Policy

IN ANY CASE, do stay tuned.
There’s a lot to know, a lot here already, and a lot more to come – in this Series and in others.
Get it here while it’s still free for the taking.

Want to work directly with me? If you’d like some coaching help with anything that came up while you were reading this Series (one-on-one couples or group), click HERE for Brain-based Coaching with mgh, with a contact form at its end (or click the E-me link on the menubar at the top of every page). Fill out the form, submit, and an email SOS is on its way to me; we’ll schedule a call to talk about what you need. I’ll get back to you ASAP (accent on the “P”ossible!)

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