From don at sheu.com Sat Jan 26 15:18:31 2019 From: don at sheu.com (Don Sheu) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 12:18:31 -0800 Subject: [group-organizers] PuPPy Progress on Response to Mental Health Crisis Message-ID: Hey folks, just wanted to share, volunteers of PuPPy took a major step yesterday towards planning for providing a safe environment for our user group members. PuPPy volunteers have formed a working group to plan how we will respond to mental health crisis situations including scenario planning and drafting messages we'll use to respond to members displaying or sharing mental crisis. I'm supporting our volunteers with anything I can help with, particularly if we need to invite established orgs helping people with mental health. One thought I had is to integrate a non-profit addressing mental health crisis in chat with our Slack. This may require enrolling help from Slack. I found that a government agency, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration has issued over $61m in grants for suicide prevention funding alone. I'll investigate what I can coordinate with the PSF about a grant application for raising mental health awareness. All of us, I imagine, know friends and colleagues who struggled with mental health at some time. Frustrating is not having tools to help. Hopefully PuPPy will contribute something in the context of our community events and interaction. https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/sm-18-009 -- Don Sheu 312.880.9389 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - My Python user group PuPPy convenes in Seattle every month 2nd Wednesdays https://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/251965475/ ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: