{"id":1228,"date":"2011-05-03T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:34:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:34:03","slug":"m-is-for-may-and-mental-hea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;M&#8221; is for May&#8230; and Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-eA2jqdlLLZw\/Tb_xSF6sE5I\/AAAAAAAACD0\/EZ0jMXHcAgw\/s1600\/mental_health_month.png\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mental_health_month.png\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In 1949 Congress determined that May was Mental Health Month in the U.S. It&#8217;s during this month we encourage each other to be educated on mental health issues, and to connect with others on this topic. It&#8217;s time to get healthy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/readergirlz.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/reach-out-reads-live-author-chats-all.html\" target= _blank>readergirlz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/divs\/yalsa\/yalsa.cfm\" target= _blank>YALSA<\/a> and the U.S. site for <a href=\"http:\/\/us.reachout.com\/\" target= _blank>ReachOut.com<\/a> have gotten together to promote mental health via YA lit, which has some great explorations of mental health through story. I love their tagline: &#8220;Fiction to get you through tough times.&#8221; Starting tonight (5pm PST\/8pm EST), they&#8217;ll be streaming live author chats, hosted by readergirlz diva Melissa Walker. First up, it&#8217;s Blake Nelson talking about <b>RECOVERY ROAD<\/b>. Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/us.reachout.com\/reachoutreads\" target= _blank>entire lineup for this month<\/a>. Some really good stuff.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-txbC5JbMjBY\/Tb_4VrlUvmI\/AAAAAAAACD8\/bwIoLLkgE5U\/s1600\/%2521cid_D2AF6D73-E22C-475E-A048-3A5199DAFEAB.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/21cid_D2AF6D73-E22C-475E-A048-3A5199DAFEAB.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Please support this readergirlz\/Reachout.com project this month. Spread the word, tune in, and help make better mental health a shame-free priority for every teen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1949 Congress determined that May was Mental Health Month in the U.S. It&#8217;s during this month we encourage each other to be educated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-happenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6508,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/6508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}