List of October 2018 Awareness Events

@Kate

General support is collaborating with 35+ and TOZ (I think :O) for mental health awareness month, week, AND day :O :O

We have a few group support discussions for both age groups and a few forum activities too ^^ nothing planned for feed yet that I know of but @supportiveMonkey46 may correct me.

@Kate

Trying to start working on an event for ADHD awareness.

@bear228 and I are working on a Self Harm Recovery Group Support Event! @Kate

Bullying Prevention Month

@MelAllyouneedislove and I have been starting to plan for discussions, threads and activities for Teen Zone. Please PM either one of us if you'd like to get involved!

Teen Self Esteem & Body Image will also be participating and planning posts on how bullying can impact teen self-esteem and body image. PM @summertimesamness, @Zammn or @Hope3729 for more info!

@Kate Thank you for the list. Having them all in one place surely helps!

@Kate I am still waiting for teens have their own team meeting before starting officially planning LGBTQ+/MOGII history month event, but we are planning to focus on personal history of us, as LGBTQ+/MOGII person as a big topic and then put other special events during the month under it - like on coming out day (11th of October) - reflect on our past coming outs, if there are any, how did they affected our life or maybe the society in a bigger picture, on spirit day (19th of october) - talking about our own experiences of bullying, about times when we were struggling with our identities and felt hopeless, what has helped then, also, we would like to dress our community in purple on that day, still trying to figure it out how! on intersex awareness day (26th of october) - what do we know about it, how does it feel to understand you are part of an intersex community, what is the situation of it in our own society and etc. On 3rd of october there are boyfriends day so we plan to do some kind of post about our gay community and their relationships - their personal struggles and joyces. And we also will have make a difference day (27th of october) when we will encourage people to make a plan or think how can they make a difference in the history, even if it's very small one because every little thing counts and we all are the ones that are creating the history!

You can find out more for our events here in our team meeting notes as we still don't have official post on it - will add it once teens meeting is over!

@Kate Anxiety did mental health bk in august for a week as far as im aware we arent hosting any this month

BPD is planning an event for mental Illness week will need to PM soon to get approval for event because of what it involves @Kate

@MonBon @SupportiveMonkey46 @MelAllyouneedislove @Kate

Hi! So I've come up with an idea for Mental Illness Awareness Week from the 7th to the 13th, but I'd need your help to accomplish it. I was thinking we could have a hybrid group support-forum event, where we group subcommunities and forum categories pertaining to mental illnesses (so 35+ wouldn't count, but addiction would) in groups of 10. We'd have chosen a thread from each subcom/forum category, and we'll write discussions where we give people clues and get them to find the threads! Then they'd have to post in those threads, and whoever posts will be awarded x numbers of cheers according to the categories. I don't know if that makes sense haha, feel free to clarify XD Thanks!

@Kate Still finalizing exact markings on various communities, but here is my own planning/list with some additional markings present:

🦋 28 September to 2nd October is Invisible Illness Awareness Week

🦋 2nd October is World Smile Day

🦋 6th October is Bipolar Awareness Day

🦋 8th October is National Depression Screening Day

🦋19th October is Evaluate Your Life Day

Will update everyone about exact ways on how we will be marking these events on the various communities I am involved in (35/50+ and Veterans Support) Feel free to see if these markings can be useful for other communities too!