Mental Health America – Wabash Valley Region

“Without mental health there can be no true physical health.”

— Dr. Brock Crisholm, the first Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO)

Join us in shining a light on mental health and helping to transform care by participating, volunteering, donating, advocating, attending an event and staying informed.

Mental Healthcare Forum White Papers

• 2016 White Paper
• 2018 White Paper

Services

State of Mental Health in America

View the 2020 “State of Mental Health in America” report.
Learn how Indiana ranks in mental health and substance use services.

Make a Difference

MHA's mental health awareness campaign-kickoff featuring the ONE IN FOUR photo exhibit was held on the tenth anniversary of the Joey A. Seaman Memorial Mental Health Library, in the summer of 2015.

MHA's ONE IN FOUR photo exhibit has been traveled to Washington DC as well as displayed in numerous locations throughout our community. The photo exhibit is currently on display in the MHA Community Building.

Events

• QPR - Suicide Prevention Certification Training

  Date: November 19, 2019

  Time: 2:00 PM

  Location:

  Lilly Conference Room - MHA
  914 South St.
  Lafayette, IN 

  Learn the warning signs and risk factors of suicidal behaviors and how to help someone who may be feeling suicidal.

What's New

• Suicide is skyrocketing in young people, and their screens and smartphones have nothing to do with it

  Date: October 22, 2019

  Author: Hilary Brueck

  • Suicide has risen dramatically among young Americans from ages 10 to 24. It is now the second leading cause of death after accidents. 
  • Child psychologist Peter Gray says the trend may be linked not to social media or screen time, but to more stressed out kids, who are driven to excel all the time.
  • Gray says unstructured play time is what helps children develop much-needed resilience and courage, and it's desperately missing in today's jam-packed student schedules

• 20 Minute Contact with Nature Reduces Stress Hormone Cortisol

  Date: October 20, 2019

  Author: Matt Prior: Frontier

  Taking at least twenty minutes out of your day to stroll or sit in a place that makes you feel in contact with nature will significantly lower your stress hormone levels. That’s the finding of a study that has established for the first time the most effective dose of an urban nature experience. Healthcare practitioners can use this discovery, published in Frontiers in Psychology, to prescribe ‘nature-pills’ in the knowledge that they have a real measurable effect.

• Self-reported suicide attempts rising in black teens as other groups decline

  Date: October 18, 2019

  Author: Robert Polner – NYU

  Self-reported suicide attempts rose significantly in African American teens, while they fell in teens of other ethnic backgrounds throughout an almost 20-year study. Researchers report suicide attempts increased at an accelerating rate in African American female teenagers, even as overall female suicide attempts declined.