Ponca CityPublic Schools

Mental Health Resource Links:

• Grand Lake Mental Health Center
  Kay County Clinic - Office (580) 749-5056 Website: https://www.glmhc.net/
  Referral form: https://www.glmhc.net/referral-form_id112

• National Alliance on Mental Illness
  Hotline: 800-950-6264 - Website: www.nami.org

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
  Hotline: 800-985-5990 - Website: https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/disaster-distress-helpline
  

• Centers for Disease Control - Managing your Stress & Anxiety
  

• Suicide Prevention Resource

•  Alliance Health
  

• ChildMind.org

•  Dayspring Community Services

•  White Eagle Health Center Counselors

Contact your local therapist groups, your Pastors, and if your feelings become severe call 911.

Guidance from your local Oklahoma Medical Reserve Corps (OK-MRC)

Below are some Covid-19 resources to help guide your family's mental health during this time:

• Self-Care and Applying Psychological First Aid for COVID-19 Responders (YouTube: 13:56 minutes)
  Provides the healthcare responder with just-in-time training on responder stress during COVID-19, and provides stress management strategies that should be implemented now to protect the healthcare work force.

• SAMHSA Behavioral Health Tips for Social Distancing, Quarantine, and Isolation during an Infectious Disease Outbreak (PDF)

• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) COVID-19 Information and Resources

• Care for Your Coronavirus Anxiety

• Managing Stress and the Threat of COVID-19 (PDF)
  Understand common stress reactions to increase your ability to cope during a public health emergency such as COVID-19.

• COVID-19 Responder Self-Triage
  Daily Responder Self-Triage checklist provides a way to look at and assess your stress level over a one week period.

• COVID-19 and Healthcare Responder Stress (PDF)
  Healthcare responders are at higher than average risk for traumatic stress reactions because their work repeatedly exposes them to highly stressful situations.

• 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
  Provided by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.

• Talking to Children About COVID-19 (Coronavirus): A Parent Resource provided by the National Association of School Psychologists

• SAMHSA Disaster Distress Helpline and Text to Talk line