Resources & Support for Mental Health
Community Resources
Tips to Reduce COVID-19 Anxiety (PDF)
Care for Your Coronavirus Anxiety
Managing Stress and the Threat of COVID-19 (PDF)
SAMHSA Behavioral Health Tips for Social Distancing, Quarantine, and Isolation during an Infectious Disease Outbreak
Psychological First Aid & COVID-19: A Minnesota Community Support Model (PDF)
Taking Care of Yourself in Isolation
Child and Family Resources
Just For Kids: A Comic Exploring The New Coronavirus NPR education reporter Cory Turner's story about what kids want to know about coronavirus spurred creation of this comic.
Parent/Caregiver Guide to Helping Families Cope With the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Fact sheet
Talking to Children About COVID-19 (Coronavirus): A Parent Resource provided by the National Association of School Psychologists
Mental illness support resources
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) COVID-19 Information and Resources
NHA: Living with Mental Illness during COVID-19 Outbreak– Preparing for your wellness
Online Support
- http://aa-intergroup.org for online AA meetings click on the blue “Go” under “Online Meeting Directory
- “Pause A While” is hosting a free conference call for AA meetings – 2 p.m. every day, Dial-in number: (425) 436-6360…access code: 422932# *If any extra help is needed for the “Pause A While” AA meetings contact: pauldart@pausewhile.org
- secularaa.org to find online secular and agnostic AA meetings (including men’s only and women’s only meetings)
- smartrecovery.org/community/ to sign in or register for online community and online meetings. Also to find online reading SMART materials (so you can view if you don’t have SMART material at home)
- na.org for online NA meetings. Form the “Home” page, hold mouse over “For Our Members” tab and click on “Virtual Meetings” and make your choice from that web page. You may want to read the instructions and guidelines first.
- virtual-na.org brings you right to other online and by phone NA meetings around the world.
- intherooms.com is hosting both NA and AA meetings. Go to site, scroll down on main page till you see list of different meetings, topics and schedules.
- alanon.org at website go to drop box on right and pick “find a meeting”, then scroll down to “Electronic Meetings” and click the blue “Find and Electronic meeting” tab. Next click “Please click here to view Phone List Meetings”.
- Coping with rural stress University of MN Extension page https://extension.umn.edu/rural-stress
- Stress and Crisis: Get Help Now – MN Department of Agriculture page https://www.mda.state.mn.us/about/mnfarmerstress/copingstress