Gay Agenda • May 7, 2021
May 7, 2021 |
The Gay Agenda
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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) The Mental Health Matters initiative is kicking off Saturday with a Mental Health Pop-up Gym. Organizers say the pop-ups are a way to introduce mental health to disadvantaged areas.
Nancy Cleveland is the executive director and founder of Macon Head Space. She says the Mental Health Pop-up Gym happening Saturday at Filmore Thomas Park is meant to promote free mental health services coming to recreation centers. The event starts at 8 a.m. and goes on until 4 p.m. It will include chances to interview therapists, yoga, meditation, poetry, and more.
“Macon Head Space is here to help you in whatever way you see fit. Whether it be therapy, aromatherapy, yoga, meditation, drumming, even just sitting in silence. I’m not sure what it is but we’re here to teach you techniques so you can take it home and create your own formula,” Cleveland said.
HANFORD â The Kings County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to adopt a resolution recognizing May as Mental Health Matters Month, joining a statewide effort to promote mental well-being.
During their Tuesday meeting, Phil Leanos, the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) program manager for Kings County Behavioral Health, proposed the resolution as a means of raising awareness. According to Leanos, there is no impact to the general fund for doing so, as the services are already covered for the 2021 fiscal year under the act.
Mental Health Matters Month was adopted by the State of California in 2013 in order to generate dialogue and a greater understanding of mental health treatment and reduce some of the social and cultural shames that are often attached to it.
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A wellness coach and the project manager of The Eko Wellness Fair, Oyin Talabi, has lamented the increasing rate of mental cases in the country.
Talabi, at a pre-event briefing of the wellness fair, said the COVID-19 pandemic had necessitated the need for everyone to take care of their mental health.
He said, “The events of 2020 to date have tested our physical immunity, mental resilience and faith in ways we still do not fully comprehend. Although Nigerians and Africans at large are not falling physically as predicted by international health indices, we are falling mentally.
Gay Agenda • April 30, 2021
Apr 30, 2021 |
The Gay Agenda
Have an event coming up? Email your information to Managing Editor Tammye Nash at nash@dallasvoice.com or Senior Staff Writer David Taffet at taffet@dallasvoice.com by Wednesday at 5 p.m. for that week’s issue.
The Gay Agenda is now color-coded: Red for community events; blue for arts and entertainment; purple for sports; green for nightlife and orange for civic events and holidays.
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Every Monday: THRIVE
Resource Center’s THRIVE Support Group for people 50 and older meets virtually from 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. led by a SMU Intern from their counseling program. A secure Zoom Room opens at 11:30 a.m. for people to join and chat. Email THRIVE@myresourcecenter.org to request the link.