Break The Stigma: May Is Mental Health Awareness Month
Important Resources to Promote Mental Wellness and Resilience
By Emily Coelho
Dear Spark Community,
For Mental Health Awareness Month in May, we are sharing key resources that prioritize the importance of mental health and well-being. We encourage you to bookmark this page to have available whenever you or someone you care about might need additional information and support. Please remember you are not alone.
Join our team and community partners Natick 180, Natick Health Department, Morse Institute Library, and Natick Service Council at the upcoming May 15, 2025 event, Stop Avoiding Stuff: Practical Tips to Avoid Your Fears & Engage With Life featuring expert Dr. Lisa Coyne. This important event is part of Natick's May is Mental Health Awareness Month initiative. See event details here. View all of the Natick Mental Health Awareness events and resources here.
With kindness and care,
~ The Spark Kindness Team
Mental health is not about feeling good. Instead, it’s about having the right feelings at the right time and being able to manage those feelings effectively.
— Dr. Lisa Damour
Important Mental Health Resources
Spark Kindness has gathered a collection of local and nationwide organizations with recommended resources dedicated to supporting mental health and well-being, including highlights listed below. Explore these tools and information to help you and your family thrive.
- For Natick, Westborough, Walpole, and many other MA residents in participating communities, the William James INTERFACE Referral Service is a mental health and wellness referral Helpline available Monday through Friday, 9 am-5 pm, at 888-244-6843 (toll free). William James College also offers several helpful guides and resources available here.
- The Behavioral Health Partners Navigation Line has care coordinators available at 1-844-528-6800 Monday through Friday to speak about mental health and social service concerns that you may have for yourself, a loved one, or a person in your care and help make referrals to health care and other service providers.
- Call2Talk is a mental health, emotional support, and suicide prevention program run by Mass211 and can be reached 24/7 at 988 or (508) 532-2255 or by texting C2T to 741741. The Massachusetts Statewide number for suicide prevention is now the Lifeline number, 1-800-273-TALK.
- Advocates offers a Community Behavioral Health Center that provides routine, urgent, and crisis care for mental health and substance use challenges. Their 24-Hour Crisis Support line can be reached at 1-800-640-5432 and is available for people of all ages.
- Parents Helping Parents - virtual support groups, 24-hour free confidential helpline, and more
- Newton-Wellesley Hospital’s The Resilience Project - offering mental health services for schools, parents/ caregivers and community organizations, events, and resources
- Natick 180 Website: For Parents and Caring Adults and Tip Sheet on Talking to Young People
- Mental Health Collaborative - free resources and mental health toolkits for parents & caregivers, schools, and organizations. Download toolkits here.
View additional Mental Health Resources here.
View additional Self Compassion Resources here.
View additional Building Resilience Resources here.