Rams Rising | May Edition Theme/Focus: Mental Health Awareness Month
Posted Date: 05/19/26 (04:34 PM)
May is a special time to recognize the importance of mental health for children, teens, and families. Just like physical health, mental health plays an important role in how students learn, build relationships, cope with challenges, and thrive.
Mental Health Awareness Month is an opportunity to encourage conversations, reduce stigma, and remind students that it is always okay to ask for help.
🌱 Practical Tips for Families
1. Start the Conversation
Talking about mental health helps normalize emotions and creates safe spaces for children to open up. Try asking:
- 💬 “How have you been feeling lately?”
- 💛 “What has been making you happy or stressed recently?”
- 👂 “Is there anything you wish adults understood better?”
2. Normalize All Feelings
Children and teens experience stress, sadness, frustration, anxiety, and overwhelm just like adults do. Remind them:
✨ Feelings are not “good” or “bad”—they’re signals that deserve attention.
✨ Feelings are not “good” or “bad”—they’re signals that deserve attention.
3. Encourage Healthy Coping Skills
Support your child in using tools that promote emotional wellness:
- 🌳 Spending time outside
- 🎨 Creative activities
- 🏃 Movement or exercise
- 😴 Healthy sleep habits
- 🤝 Talking to a trusted adult
4. Show Support by Wearing Green!
💚 Tomorrow, May 20th, we invite all students to wear green in support of Mental Health Awareness Month!
Wearing green helps raise awareness, show solidarity, and remind students they are never alone.
Wearing green helps raise awareness, show solidarity, and remind students they are never alone.
🌟 Why It Matters
Mental health impacts every part of a student’s life—from learning and concentration to friendships and self-esteem. When we openly talk about mental health, we help reduce stigma and make it easier for students to seek support when they need it.
A connected child is a supported child.
💛 Encouragement & Invitation
If there’s one thing we hope students take away this month, it’s this:
💚 It is okay to not be okay.
💚 It is okay to ask for help.
💚 You are never alone.
💚 It is okay to ask for help.
💚 You are never alone.
Thank you for partnering with us in supporting student mental health and helping create a school community where emotional wellness matters.
💛 From Your MWISD Mental Health Counselors
As Licensed Professional Counselors (LPCs) and Licensed Professional Counselor Associates (LPC-Associates), we provide free, school-based therapy for all MWISD students.
If you believe your child could benefit from counseling and they are not currently seeing a counselor outside of school, please contact your child’s campus school counselor to request a referral.
