Mental Health Awareness

Mountain View Middle School has partnered with Riverside County Department of Public Health and Injury Prevention Services to raise awareness on the issues of Mental Health for the past several years. Mountain View Middle School’s Leadership class has been selected to take part and create and lead rallies to bring positive encouragement to students on campus with information available for sources if students were to need help. They have done positive grams and Countdown calendars in the past and planning in 2021 a week long series of School Spirit days and activities to help stop negativity (bullying/depression), be proud of your uniqueness (Self Esteem), chase your worries away (anxiety) and others. This year Leadership Class has teamed up with ASB to make this year a great success.

 

 Leadership Class is a group of students who are taught how to mentor and work with students with disabilities, be team players, leaders of the campus through their example, and trained in what things to notice about students that may be struggling with mental health issues or concerns including suicide and help them go to the adults who can help them. They have even gone global with Great Kindness Week by collecting coins for a Kenyan school. 

Mental illnesses are disorders of brain function. They have many causes and result from complex interactions between a person’s genes and their environment. Having a mental illness is not a choice or moral failing. Mental illnesses occur at similar rates around the world, in every culture and in all socioeconomic groups. Mental Health deals with conditions such as depression, anxiety, mood swings, eating disorders, and many others.