Established in 2019, Florida Mental Health Coalition launched as the nonprofit 501c3 umbrella arm to Mental Health Center of Florida, closing the gap to be the safety net for the most vulnerable. By leveraging the generosity of individual philanthropists, corporate partners and foundations, FMHC has targeted services to help assure mental balance of the mind, body and spirit for people of all ages.
- Provide mental health clinical services to law enforcement officers via telehealth
- Clinicians are stationed at are Police Athletic Leagues, providing counseling to identified youth and character-building programs
- Provide free mental health services to uninsured and under-insured youth ages 18 and younger
- Provide PPE supplies to area hospitals as well as complimentary lunch
- Delivered more than 75,000 food packages to the unemployed since April 2020
- Assured free mental health to uninsured and under-insured seniors living in Assisted Living Facilities
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If you are having suicidal thoughts and or need immediate help, please call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255.
Safeguarding the mental health of seniors
- Establish opportunities for self-care
- Engage with social connectedness via virtual platforms
- Exercise preferably outdoors such as at a park where there is room for social distancing and open air
- Create a gratitude journal
- Use meditation and other relaxation techniques such as diaphragmatic breathing
- Stay educated and informed about COVID with science rich data
- Remain alert use precautionary measures
- Increase behavioral activation
- If you feel like isolating or alienating reach a family member or professional
- If you Are contemplating suicide seek professional help immediately
- Prioritize tasks by level of importance
- Maintain a routine schedule to aspire for normalcy and deter mental health decline
- Use active learning practices such as reading the muses paper and decrease passive learning such as excessive hours watching television
- Adopt a survivor stance