NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
Here are some additional resources which have been supplied by NAMI which may help the REST VEST community:
The Jed Foundation empowers teens and young adults with the skills and support to grow into (emotionally) healthy adults. It offers an online resource center on how to help someone who may be at risk for self-harm or suicide to move toward emotional well-being. It also partners with high schools, colleges & communities to promote mental health programs
Center for Young Women’s Health provides a series of guides on emotional health, including on test anxiety, depression, bullying, and eating disorders, including extensive FAQs under the Emotional Health section of each website covering topics as varied as “Alcoholic parents,” “Breakups,” “Cliques,” “Consent,” “Test Anxiety” and more.
Center for Young Men’s Health provides a series of guides on emotional health, including on test anxiety, depression, bullying, and eating disorders, including extensive FAQs under the Emotional Health section of each website covering topics as varied as “Alcoholic parents,” “Breakups,” “Cliques,” “Consent,” “Test Anxiety” and more.
The Tribe Wellness Community offers online peer support groups for teens facing mental health challenges and/or difficult family dynamics.
Your Life Your Voice is a service of Boys Town that provides teens with tips and coping techniques to help with tough situations. They also feature an interactive list and print-out of 99 coping skills and strategies at www.yourlifeyourvoice.org/pages/tip-99-coping-skills.aspx.
Rainbows for all Children is an international support group network dedicated to providing in-person peer support programs for children, teens and young adults as they navigate grief and heal from loss — whether from death, divorce/separation, deployment, deportation, incarceration or other trauma. Rainbows partners with communities to offer support through channels of peer support with volunteer adult facilitators. They offer a “Find a Group” function on its website.
MindShift is an app developed in conjunction with Anxiety Canada that helps adolescents, teens and young adults gain learn basic skills to manage their symptoms of anxiety, including GAD, social anxiety, phobias and panic attacks. The app is also useful for managing worry, performance anxiety, test anxiety and perfectionism. It utilizes breathing exercises, mental imagery and mindfulness strategies in text and audio format. “Quick Tips” are included to assist with anxiety in the moment. Available for free on Apple and Android.
Study.com provides a mental health guide for college students which addresses several topics, such as how to physically care for oneself and organizations for student support. You can reach Study.com at (877) 266-4919.
Teen Line is a teen hotline providing emotional support and education on common crises or issues to teens via phone, text, chat, email and message boards. Also includes a parent and resource section with blogs and videos. Calls and texts between 6–10 p.m. PT. You can contact Teen Line at (800) 852-8336 and by texting TEEN to 839863.
If you feel you are in crisis, please seek help immediately. Here are some additional resources:
Boys Town National Hotline is a 24-hour crisis line for teens and families in need of help: suicide prevention line, parents can call about parenting issues, kids can call about anything – provides referrals and problem-solving; also provides suicide prevention line, referrals, and problem-solving (calls answered by trained crisis counselors). You can reach Boys Town at (800) 448-3000.
Trevor Lifeline (866) 488-7386; text line START to 678-678 is a 24/7 hotline, text-line, and online chat; Provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ youth ages 13-24, as well as free online educational modules.
Thursday’s Child (800) 872-5437 provides 24-hour emergency help and information for youths in crisis. Helps children, teens and young adults faced with bullying, eating disorders, self-harm, sexual assault, thoughts of suicide, trafficking, abuse, and abduction and addiction. Provides extensive information on its website and operates a 24/7 youth hotline.
Covenant House/National Runaway Safeline (800) 786-2929 is a 24-hour confidential crisis and resource line for at-risk teens considering running away from home; serves as an intermediary for teenagers (13-21) and parents, offers resources for parents of children who have run away, free bus transport home, runaway education; also offers message boards and Live Chat options.
National Safe Place (502) 635-3660 is a 24-hour service that provides information to help and support youth in need; additionally, it designates youth-friendly organizations as “Safe Place” locations through its “Find a Safe Place Locator” for teens in a crisis. Text SAFE at your current location to 69866 for help via text (24hrs).
