Health and Mental Health Resources

Resources for Showing Support… For Ministers… For Individuals… and for Communities

Supporting Caregivers and Patients

• Lotsa Helping Hands – a web resource to coordinate activities and manage volunteers with an online, intuitive group calendar.
• CaringBridge – a web resource providing free websites that connect people experiencing a significant health challenge to family and friends, making each health journey easier.
• Look Good Feel Better – helping women with cancer feel better.
• The Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers – to help provide support for those who provide support.
• The National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advanced Directives -  to plan for the possibility that someone may lose capacity to give or withhold informed consent to treatment during acute episodes of psychiatric illness.

Supporting Child Health, Mental Health, and Wellness

• Kit for New Parents - from First Five California, an “owners’ manual” for parents.
• Butterfly Project -  free resources to help reduce stress in young children, also helpful during the acute and chronic stress of physical illness
• Tips on Child Mental Health for Parents – from Learning Disabilities Association of America
• Young Minds - an organization based in the UK devoted to the mental health of youths

Liturgical Resources on Mental Health for Ministers

• Mental Health Ministries – “to erase the stigma of mental illness”
• Pathways to Promise – Interfaith resource center offering liturgical resources for caring ministry.