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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Mind your mind

September 29, 2009   admin   No comments

What a great opportunity for the youth of today. I encourage you to look at this website and please pass it along to anyone who you think would find it useful.

mindyourmindpro.ca is a program of mindyourmind. mindyourmind is a not-for-profit youth mental health engagement program. The mindyourmind team comprise an eclectic mix of creative, clinical and tech experience.
mindyourmind works with youth, emerging adults and the professionals who serve them to develop resources and communication platforms. These resources are designed using current evidence and research to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness and increase access and use of community support, both professional and peer-based. Through the use of active engagement and technology mindyourmind inspires youth to reach out, get help and give help.

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Lifeline Anxiety Newsletter

September 29, 2009   admin   No comments

There is some really good stuff in this months Lifeline Anxiety Newsletter. Here’s a peak:

September – scary month for fearful children; worrying time for parents
The first few weeks of the school year can be worrying for parents of shy, fearful children.

When a child is simply afraid of going back to school, he/she is most likely shy and can overcome this shyness by gaining confidence through the example of the way his/her parents deal with social situations. However, if the thought of going back to school causes debilitating fear, the child may be suffering from social phobia and parents will need the assistance of a mental health professional in learning how to help their child. If your child shows unreasonable and irrational fear of being embarrassed or criticised by other children which doesn’t appear or, at least, doesn’t appear as markedly in the company of adults or even adolescents, you are most likely seeing a symptom of social phobia.

A young child may also either become frozen with fear or throw a tantrum and, if allowed, may withdraw completely from contact with other children. In teens, such response to fear of judgement by others will be a fully fledged panic attack. Fear of others, expressed this way is not the result of a phase a child is going through. It is social anxiety and needs treatment. Please don’t let anybody tell you differently.

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Jackson School District renting church for expanded preschool program

September 29, 2009   admin   No comments

“All the buildings in the district are full,” Emmendorfer said. “We are filled to capacity.”

To accommodate the additional students, the district is renting the New McKendree United Methodist Church across the street from the elementary school.

The district is leasing the building for $45,916 per year. There are 105 students housed in the church with another 83 in the elementary.
The district brought in tables and cubbies to transform Sunday school classrooms to fit its needs, Emmendorfer said.

“It just works lovely for us,” said Bonnie Knowlan, South Elementary principal.

Students with mild to significant developmental delays, whether cognitive, physical, communicative, adaptive or emotional, receive priority. The district is required by law to provide education for students with disabilities when they turn 3. The preschool program was expanded in 2002 to also include students with mild development issues such as social anxiety or language problems.

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Family mental history shadows future children

September 28, 2009   admin   No comments

By Melissa Schorr
Mon., Sept . 28, 2009
Posted on the msnbc.com site

Patrick Tracey watched helplessly as his two older sisters, mother and grandmother were all felled by the brutal blow of schizophrenia.

“It hits like a comet, the impact is so devastating,” says Tracey, who spent his 20s fearing inheriting the disease himself, and later, watching romantic relationships fizzle over his reluctance to pass that burden onto any children.

Mental health professionals have long known that certain mental illnesses can run within families — and that history weighs heavily on some people who are struggling to decide whether to have children and risk passing it on.Family mental history shadows future children.

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Willing to share your experience with anxiety?

September 26, 2009   admin   No comments

Much Music is looking for YOUTH between 16 and 21 years of age who are willing to share their experiences with anxiety, stress or depression and other mental health issues affecting teens. If you live around Toronto and would like to participate to help erase the stigma around mental health issues, please contact Luiza at luiza@tuesday7.com.

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