Mental-Health Support: D-C Fights the Stigma

D-C Fights the Stigma is Dundee-Crown's mental health campaign, but it is more than that. The goals of D-C Fights the Stigma inform everything that we do at Dundee-Crown. As a campaign, we aim to:

Increase awareness and educate students and staff about mental health and mental illness. Mental health is an aspect of physical health.
Destigmatize mental health issues; emphasizing that depression and anxiety are experienced by most if not all people at one time or another. To struggle is to be human.
Destigmatize help-seeking behaviors. Some statistics suggest that 80% of affected teens will not seek help when it is needed for fear of being labeled as weak.
Increase EMPATHY through story-telling. Story-telling is both healing and revealing to others, fostering compassion.
Emphasize that we all need to actively practice mental health-promoting behaviors; mental health CAN NOT be maintained or promoted passively.

Resources

Requesting Help at D-C

Help is always available for Dundee-Crown Students. In order to request support for yourself, your child, or a friend, please visit the D-C Fights the Stigma Schoology Page.

D-C Fights the Stigma Schoology page

If you would like to speak to a D-C counselor about a non-emergency concern, please call 224-484-5014.

If you have an emergency, please dial 911 immediately.

Solicitando ayuda en D-C

Siempre hay ayuda disponible para los estudiantes de Dundee-Crown. Para solicitar apoyo para usted, su hijo o un amigo, visite la página de DC Fights the Stigma Schoology.

D-C Fights the Stigma Schoology page

Si desea hablar con un consejero de D-C sobre un asunto que no es una emergencia, llame al 224-484-5014.

Si tiene una emergencia, llame al 911 inmediatamente.

Community Resources

D-C Fights the Stigma has compiled a list of Individual, Crisis, Family, and Substance support resources.

Individual, Crisis, Family, and Substance support resources (PDF)

None of these is by any means an exhaustive list of resources in the community. If you have had a positive experience with mental health resources in the community and think that they should be added, please feel free to email me.

The categories are simple specialties, each agency may offer additional types of counseling.

If you have an emergency, please dial 911 immediately.

Recursos en la comunidad

D-C Fights the Stigma ha compilado una lista de recursos de apoyo para individuos, crisis, familias y sustancias.

Recursos de apoyo para individuos, crisis, familias y sustancias (PDF)

Ninguno de estos es de ninguna manera una lista exhaustiva de recursos en la comunidad. Si ha tenido una experiencia positiva con los recursos de salud mental en la comunidad y cree que deberían agregarse, no dude en enviarme un correo electrónico.

Las categorías son simplemente especialidades, cada agencia puede ofrecer tipos adicionales de asesoramiento.

Si tiene una emergencia, llame al 911 de inmediato.

Information for Parents

The D-C Fights the Stigma team has put together information for parents to help in speaking with your child about mental health and suicide.

Helping and Supporting Your Child around the Topics of Mental Health & Suicide (PDF)

Información para padres

El equipo de DC Fights the Stigma ha reunido información para que los padres ayuden a hablar con su hijo sobre la salud mental y el suicidio.

Get Out of Your Head Day/Day of Service

Sometimes we can get “stuck in our heads” or stuck in “mind-wandering mode”. When we are “stuck in our heads” we are less likely to be happy, more likely to worry, and often we are not engaged in what we are doing. This can impact both your physical and mental health, your performance in school or at work, and your relationships. In order to Be Your Best Self it is key to Get Out of Your Head and back into your life.

Each year since the 2018-2019 school year, D-C staff and students have spent a couple of hours during The Get Out of Your Head Day/Day of Service to set curriculum entirely aside to do something a little different.

On Get Out of Your Head Day/Day of Service, staff and students have the opportunity to pick an activity that they are passionate about, to try something new, or to go out into the community to volunteer.

The day is all about:

Taking a mental health break
Meeting others with similar interests
Having time with student leaders and staff with similar passions for an activity
giving back to the community, and
Learning something new

Salga de su cabeza Día / Día de servicio

A veces podemos quedarnos "atascados en nuestras cabezas" o en "modo de distracción mental". Cuando estamos "atascados en nuestras cabezas", es menos probable que seamos felices, más probabilidades de preocuparnos y, a menudo, no estamos comprometidos con lo que estamos haciendo. Esto puede afectar tanto su salud física como mental, su desempeño en la escuela o en el trabajo y sus relaciones. Para ser tu mejor yo, es clave salir de tu cabeza y volver a tu vida.

Cada año desde el año escolar 2018-2019, el personal y los estudiantes de DC han pasado un par de horas durante el Día / Día de servicio de The Get Out of Your Head para dejar el plan de estudios a un lado por completo y hacer algo un poco diferente.

En Get Out of Your Head Day / Day of Service, el personal y los estudiantes tienen la oportunidad de elegir una actividad que les apasione, probar algo nuevo o salir a la comunidad para ser voluntarios.

El día se trata de:

Tomando un descanso de salud mental
Conocer a otras personas con intereses similares
Pasar tiempo con líderes estudiantiles y personal con pasiones similares por una actividad.
Retribuir a la comunidad, y
Aprendiendo algo nuevo