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Celebrating Global Day of Hope May 2

May 5, 2015 By Kathryn Leave a Comment

Thank you to everyone who helped celebrate all things ‪#‎hope‬ this past Saturday, May 2, 2015. We had so much fun planting sunflowers with all our iFred friends and supporters nextContinue Reading

Filed Under: Depression, Health, iFred, Inspiration, Mental Health, Movement for Global Mental Health, Youth Tagged With: awareness, depression, Global Day of Hope, health, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, mental health, suicide prevention, teach hope

Gratitude for Health

November 24, 2014 By Kathryn Leave a Comment

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, there will inevitably be a lot of talk about thankfulness and appreciation of life and all they have to offer. Aside from the goodnessContinue Reading

Filed Under: Brain Nutrition, Children, Depression, Education, Events, Gratitude, Health, iFred, Inspiration, Mental Health, Research, Schools for Hope, Tips and Tools, Uncategorized Tagged With: anxiety, Bidushi Dhungel, depression, Education, finding hope, global mental health, Gratitude, health, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, mental health, schools for hope, suicide prevention, teach hope, Thanksgiving

Teaching Hope: A Powerful Lesson

November 4, 2014 By Kathryn Leave a Comment

iFred’s recent project, Schools for Hope, launched this fall with fifth graders in the Chicagoland area. The curriculum aims to teach hope to students as a result of the dishearteningContinue Reading

Filed Under: Artwork for Hope, Children, Depression, Education, Health, iFred, Inspiration, Meditation, Mental Health, Movement for Global Mental Health, Research, Schools for Hope, Suicide Prevention, Sunflowers, Teens, Uncategorized, Youth Tagged With: Choices Magazine, depression, depression advocacy, end stigma, finding hope, health, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, iFred, mental health, Penny Tate, Scholastic, schools for hope, suicide prevention, Sunflowers, teach hope

Community care in mental health

September 30, 2014 By Kathryn Leave a Comment

#communitycare #communitymentalhealth #globalinnovations2014 If ever there was a need for innovation in mental health, it is now. Perhaps that is why we see growing global commitment to develop, evaluate, andContinue Reading

Filed Under: Field for Hope, iFred, Jagannath Lamichhane, Mental Health, Movement for Global Mental Health, Uncategorized, Youth Tagged With: depression advocacy, field for hope, global mental health, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, iFred, Jagannath Lamichhane, mental health, Mental Health Innovation Network, schools for hope, suicide prevention, teach hope

Depression and anxiety are linked to happiness and there’s plenty that can be done from a young age

August 14, 2014 By Kathryn 19 Comments

In the last blog, I talked about the World Happiness Report 2013 and began to explore the links between mental health and happiness. I want to explore this in furtherContinue Reading

Filed Under: Brain Nutrition, Depression, Exercise, Health, iFred, Inspiration, International, Jagannath Lamichhane, Meditation, Suicide Prevention, Teens, Uncategorized, Youth Tagged With: children, depression, finding hope, health, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, iFred, international depression blog, Jagannath Lamichhane, mental health, suicide prevention, teach hope

The Path to Happiness is Sound Mental Health

August 5, 2014 By Kathryn Leave a Comment

In July 2011 the UN General Assembly passed a historic resolution: It invited member countries to measure the happiness of their people and to use this to help guide theirContinue Reading

Filed Under: Health, iFred, Inspiration, International, Mental Health, Movement for Global Mental Health, Research, Youth Tagged With: depression advocacy, happiness, health, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, international depression blog, Jagannath Lamichhane, mental health, movement for global mental health, suicide prevention, teach hope