LAC discusses PSAs, mental health directory progress
Last updated 5/11/2021 at 11:23am
The Hill County Behavioral Health Local Advisory Council discussed Monday public service announcements to raise awareness about and to normalize mental health issues. LAC members have spoken in previous meetings about making PSAs that can play around town in audio form, or in video form online, letting local people who struggle with mental health issues tell their stories of how they got help in order to normalize the issue. LAC Chair Andi Daniel said she is looking for people willing to share their stories or expertise in the field of mental and behavioral health care and be interviewed.
Suicide awareness walk focuses on need for change in attitudes
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People carrying signs with the names of people who committed suicide walk toward Tilleman Field on Montana State University-Northern s campus during a suicide awareness event.
Montana State University s Sweetgrass Society, in collaboration with the Little River Institute and Northern s Healthy Lifestyle Advocates, hosted a suicide awareness walk Wednesday with nearly 100 people in attendance. The event featured a pair of speakers from the Fort Belknap Indian Community who talked about their experiences with suicide and how it affected their lives and communities. The first was Sweetgrass Society President Aryn Longknife-Jake, who talked about the people she s seen take their own lives in her community at Fort Belknap, as well as her own mental health struggles..