NYAPRS Note: The Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services has fully endorsed and adopted the Strive for Five challenge developed in New York by Kristin Woodlock and launched by NYAPRS and the Coalition for Behavioral Health. See the video from Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services’ Director Lori Criss at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb3X8PkxaQY&feature=youtu.be and below for Ohio’s announcement on behalf of the Challenge.
You can take the challenge today by using a variety of strategies, including phone, text, web, social media and other applications and Zoom technologies, to reach out and offer mental health support to at least 5 individuals on a daily basis over the next month, during these extremely challenging and stressful times. See the attached video!
Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
The challenge is simple: find five people in your life and check-in with them every day for the next 30-days.
Ohio’s Strive for Five Challenge is a new, statewide awareness campaign to help individuals and families cope with feelings of stress, anxiety, and isolation by connecting with others.
You are encouraged to reach out, connect, and comfort each other while we all work our way through the COVID-19 crisis and social distancing. Peer-to-peer support has great power in helping to calm anxiety and fear. By reaching out via phone, text, email, or even a hand-written note, you can help.
The Strive for Five Challenge was developed by the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services and the Coalition for Behavioral Health and brought to Ohio by the Mental Health, Addiction and Recovery Services Board of Lorain County.
