May Is Mental Health Awareness Month: Information And Resources From Portland Public Schools Student Support Services

Press release from Portland Public Schools:

May 14, 2021

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Portland Public Schools is committed to celebrating student identity as a part of uplifting wellness and to supporting all of our students to stay healthy, mentally and physically.

PPS Student Support Services collaborates with staff and partners to provide a wide range of supports, from our school social workers and counselors to our community partners. To find services available at your school, visit http://ppsfamilysupports.com/.

We are offering a peer led suicide prevention workshop in early June; we hope your middle or high school student will consider joining us for this important discussion. More information to follow.

Additionally, here are some important resources we’d like to share with you:

• Youth Resource App informed by youth for youth. Download free on Apple and Android platforms.
• Community Wellness Supports (includes call lines for families)
  • Spanish
  • Vietnamese
  • Chinese
  • Somali
  • Russian
• Recovery, Education, & Action for Healthy Living (REAHL)
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

We hope that you will familiarize yourself with the many ways PPS Student Support Services can help your students. Thank you!

This press release was produced by Portland Public Schools. The views expressed here are the author’s own.