Resources for Mental Health Awareness Month, Pulitzer Center

Posted by Pulitzer Center on May 14, 2024

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. This week, we’re sharing resources to highlight the importance of reflecting on mental health and talking about it with our communities. We hope that you and your students are taking care of yourselves, and can utilize these resources and others to feel empowered to take action and begin conversations about mental health and well-being.

How can communities respond to the crisis of teen mental health and suicide? Conversations With Sydney is a podcast created and hosted by a father and his teenager as they open up a dialogue on mental health and conduct solutions-oriented exploration while interviewing teens and leading mental health experts. This listening guide is designed to provide the foundation for opening up conversations about mental health at home, in the classroom, in your school community, or wherever you work closely with youth. The guide covers all four episodes of the podcast and includes reflection questions, themes, key quotes, and suggested activities for further exploration.

Explore the listening guide.

Invite your students to explore the role of storytelling in supporting advocacy and healing for individuals and communities through this unit from Teacher Fellow Karen Sojourner. Students engage with journalism, short films, local interviews, and self-reflection to expand their definitions of advocacy, explore the causes and impacts of trauma, and ultimately compose a trauma-informed recipe book that will offer their own suggested guidelines for mitigating trauma.

Explore the unit.