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PITTSFIELD â In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, the National Alliance for Mental Illness Berkshire County, in partnership with Debora Cole-Duffy, a licensed social worker, and the Berkshire Coalition for Suicide Prevention, announces a free mental health phone service for adults 18+, called Tele-bridging Mental Health in the Berkshires.
Cole-Duffy, now retired, developed the program and was awarded a seed grant from the Berkshire Coalition for Suicide Prevention. She oversees mental health provider recruitment, training, phone interventions, and supervision needs, and NAMI coordinates the phone system and volunteer schedulers.
The experienced volunteer mental health providers, some retired and some in practice, offer mindfulness-based coping strategies and community resource information to people experiencing distress, especially during this challenging time.
PITTSFIELD â In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, the National Alliance for Mental Illness Berkshire County, in partnership with Debora Cole-Duffy, a licensed social worker, and the Berkshire Coalition for Suicide Prevention is offering a free mental health phone service for adults 18 and older, called Tele-bridging Mental Health in the Berkshires.
Cole-Duffy, now retired, developed the program and was awarded a seed grant from the Berkshire Coalition for Suicide Prevention. She oversees mental health provider recruitment, training, phone interventions and supervision needs, and NAMI coordinates the phone system and volunteer schedulers.
The experienced volunteer mental health providers, some retired and some in practice, offer mindfulness-based coping strategies and community resource information to people experiencing distress.
PITTSFIELD â After her sonâs death, Peggy Morse made it her mission to create a space for fellow suicide loss survivors to gather, grieve and honor the lives of their loved ones.
When her son died by suicide in the late â90s, there were no local support groups to lean into, Morse said. Sheâd drive more than an hour to East Longmeadow, where she found a community of survivors who lost loved ones to suicide, also.
But Morse â who was honored earlier this year for her decades of work in the field of suicide prevention and healing from loss â knew there were others across the Berkshire who were attempting to cope with suicide loss too.
This May and Mental Health Awareness Month, the Berkshire Coalition for Suicide Prevention partners with Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health to offer any Berkshire county resident the opportunity to participate in RISE, Kripaluâs Signature Evidence-Based Resilience Training.
Anchored in the science and practice of mindfulness and positive psychology, RISE teaches participants to recognize the physiological symptoms of stress as they arise and how to respond with intention rather than reaction; shifting the conversation around stress from being inherently bad to understanding how to leverage stress into moments of creativity and meaning.
Adults ages 25 and up can participate May 15 from 9 a.m. to noon. Ages 14-25 9 a.m. to noon on May 22. Register at berkshirecoalition.org/kripalu.