Articles About mental health

• ‘Sources of Strength’ | New school program encourages wellbeing

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 19, 2023

  

  The new program, “Sources of Strength,” is sponsored by the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation and PreventionFirst and is designed to reduce the risk of suicide, bullying and substance abuse.

• Mental health considered in students’ return

  By Carol SimmonsFebruary 18, 2021

  

  Local data shows that an increased number of young people are struggling, and mental health care providers report that the severity of struggle is more pronounced amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Pandemic stressors affect mental health

  By Carol SimmonsApril 30, 2020

  

  The current medical crisis of COVID-19, while physical in nature, affects our mental health, whether we contract the virus or not.

• ‘Building a jail larger than we need’— Citizens give input at jail tax hearing

  By Audrey HackettNovember 21, 2019

  

  Does Greene County need a bigger jail? And what would be the costs of operating a larger facility?

  Those were the chief questions and concerns voiced by citizens at last Thursday’s public hearing on a proposed sales tax increase to pay for a new county jail, estimated at a total cost of $70 million.

• In September, a focus on dementia

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 30, 2018

  

  When organizers for the Dementia Friendly Yellow Springs, or DFYS, project held a community book read last winter on a book about dementia, they were encouraged by the hardy response.

• Survivors of suicide find solace

  By Morgan BeardAugust 2, 2018

  

  It is estimated that 85 percent of Americans know someone personally who has died of suicide, according to a 2012 study titled Suicide Bereavement and Complicated Grief. 

• Reaching out to save a life

  By Megan BachmanJuly 5, 2018

  

  In the depths of depression, a young Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to his law partner in 1841 that hinted at possible suicidal intentions.

• The role of police in preventing suicide

  By Megan BachmanJune 28, 2018

  

  Local police have responded ten times to a possibly suicidal person in the village this year. While each case is unique, in all of them police assess the safety of the situation and then choose a course of action.

• Suicide a growing concern

  By Megan BachmanJune 21, 2018

  

  It’s called the ripple effect. When someone takes their own life, the act impacts entire families and communities, spreading out as water from a stone tossed in a pond.

• Mental health first aid training offered

  By YS News StaffMay 30, 2018

  

  The Antioch College Office of Student Life, in association with the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Greene County, will host a local mental health first-aid training on Friday, June 1, 8 a.m.–5:30 p.m.