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SAMHSA toolkits, World Mental Health Day and library programming ideas highlighted for outreach
Summary
The webinar highlighted SAMHSA digital toolkits (including social-media calendars and downloadable assets), the 988 lifeline, WHO illustrated guides, and practical library programming ideas such as therapy-dog events and comic-creation workshops.
Nick Vera walked through SAMHSA’s site and its "Find Help" features, including links to the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline and a ZIP-code treatment locator, and demonstrated SAMHSA’s digital toolkits that break outreach into weekly social-media posts and ready-made assets. "This is ready to go out of the box," Vera said when explaining the toolkits’ step-by-step structure for running Mental Health Awareness Month campaigns.
Vera and participants discussed program formats that libraries have used — therapy dogs at finals, mindfulness and burnout workshops, comics-based guides from WHO, and menopause or older-adult-focused sessions — and he pointed to ALA programming resources as a source of templates. A participant asked whether NNLM shares toolkits with VA PTSD teams; Vera said resources are publicly available and that NNLM has drawn on VA materials when creating classes.
