A #DGKS⥠sign is pictured outside the Cider Gallery, 810 Pennsylvania Street.
The newly developed well-being branch of Douglas County’s pandemic response team has launched its first project: a hashtag campaign meant to help residents stay positive.
Margaret Weisbrod Morris, chief executive officer of the Lawrence Arts Center, is one of the leaders of the well-being branch. She said it was established to pay more heed to the community’s mental health, “because it’s been such a long slog, the pandemic.”
The team’s first project is an effort to spread smiles while also leading residents to wellness resources by using and spreading the hashtag #DGKSâ¥.
Jeff Burkhead, Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center
Worried about some of her friends, a Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center board member recently messaged the center’s CEO, Patrick Schmitz, and other staff members.
“I have friends who are just down and need some positivity,” the board member said. “I have been asked if Bert Nash has any online resources/exercises/links that would help people who are experiencing low energy or light depression during these seasonal days of COVID. Thanks for any help.”
Help is available not only on the Bert Nash website, but on a new community resource website hosted by Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health: ldchealth.org/hope. The new resource is part of Douglas County’s Unified Command Community Well-being Branch.