Welcome to the 2016-17 school year – it’s off to a steamy start. Does the start of the new school year fill a child you know with dread and anxiety? Do the academic and social pressures of high school make you want to run and hide? You’re not alone. The start of a new school […]
MHA Board Member Maura Horgan talks about STEM initiative in Newark City Schools. NEWARK – As the Director of Curriculum and Staff Development for Newark City Schools, Maura Horgan’s job is to listen to what students want to study. And from what she’s heard, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics seems to be exactly what they’ve […]
NEWARK – Employers are helping educate students and educators are helping students find jobs as the collaboration between schools and business deepens in Licking County. Still, few are satisfied that everything is being done to match students with future employers or careers. Almost 300 business and education representatives from across the county came together Wednesday at Newark High […]
NEWARK – Mental Health America and the Newark Wildcats are holding a 3-on-3 basketball tournament Aug. 6 at Newark High School in memory of Lou Mitchell. The event is being held to raise awareness for suicide prevention, and cost is $50 per team (three to five players). All proceeds benefit the MHA Suicide Prevention Program. […]
Earlier this month, a co-worker and I were talking about what has been happening around our country, most recently the deaths of Alton Sterling in Louisiana, Philando Castile in Minnesota and five police officers in Texas. We were talking about the collective trauma and fear that is building across our great nation. I shared that […]
Mental Health America of Licking County sets outing Mental Health America of Licking County is hosting the Lou Mitchell Memorial Golf Outing for Suicide Prevention on July 25 at Moundbuilders Country Club. Registration begins at noon with a simultaneous start at 1 p.m. For more information or to sponsor the event, call 740-522-1341 or go […]
Mental Health America mourns the victims in the tragic shootings in Orlando, Florida, at Pulse Orlando Night Club. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families, victims and everyone who has been affected by this horrific event. Emotional distress, anxiety and depression are common reactions to such a traumatic event as the Orlando shootings. Some […]
The word ” concentration” has many meanings. This article is about its psychological meaning: it expresses the human ability to focus on one thing and devote one’s entire attention to it. In the ideal case, one “forgets” everything else – they can’t visualize anything else and focus solely on the object at hand.- A decision […]
FY 2023 Annual Report
NEWARK – Samantha Gillespie struggled with depression. Her home life wasn’t the best, she said. The 15-year-old Newark High School sophomore felt like she was invisible and that her life didn’t mean anything to them. But she kept her grades up so her parents wouldn’t know she was depressed. “I was definitely hiding under a mask,” she said. “I didn’t […]
