MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES

Mental Health Month Toolkit

SELF-CARE

• 2 Minute Re-Centering Mindfulness Meditation for De-stressing

• 3 Minutes Body Scan Meditation – Mindfulness For Kids And Adults

• 4 Self-Care Resources for Days When the World is Terrible

• 10 TED Talks for when you feel totally burned out

• 13 Mental Health Resources that Are Absolutely Free

• Breaking Isolation: Self Care and Community Care Tools for our People

• Burnout Prevention and Treatment

• Burnout Response

• How to Create Your Own Self-Care Plan

• Keys to Well-Being

• Live Mentally Healthy

• Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community

• Normalizing Rest

• Reframe How You Think About Self-Care

• Self-Care: Taking Care of Others by Taking Care of Yourself

• Staying mentally healthy during COVID-19

• Top 14 Apps For Meditation and Mindfulness (+ Reviews)

• 2023’s Top Rehab Centers in Austin

• College Planning Guide for Students with Mental Health Disorders

RESOURCES IN OUR COMMUNITY   

• Any Baby Can – No Estás Solo

• Austin Area African American Behavioral Health Network 

• Austin Asian Community Health Initiative 

• Austin Child Guidance Center 

• Austin in Connection: Family Matters – A free, family workshop to promote healthy parent-child relationships providing participants with current information on the science and practice of effective parenting. 

• Asian Mental Health Project – Weekly check-ins on Wednesday evenings.

• Contigo Wellness

• Hearts2Heal 

• icfaustin.org 

• Integral Care’s Mental Health First Aid Responder training 

• Interagency Support Council – provides free comprehensive school-based mental health services in East Williamson County.  

• Just Mind and Alive Austin 

• Mental Health First Aid  

• NAMI Central Texas – offers free classes, support groups and mental health webinars as well as a repository of great resources for mental health on our website.  

• theprosumers.org

• Recovery Coalition of Texas

• Regarding Cancer – peer-to-peer support for cancer patients and caregivers, support groups

• The SAFE Alliance – Free counseling of survivors of DV/SA and offers parenting education and support services with their Strong Start Program  

• Salud America

• Samaritan Center  – provides services to all ages. They have partnered with other agencies to provide support for their employees.  

• Shalom Austin Jewish Family Service – offers affordable and culturally sensitive social services to maintain wellness and dignity across the lifespan. They serve people regardless of race, religion, disability, gender or sexual orientation.

• Spirit Reins – summer programs for children experiencing the foster care system and/or who have been adopted. Additionally, Spirit Reins is offering agency retreats to help nonprofit staff rest, regulate, and rebuild their resilience!  

• YWCA – Offer low and no cost mental health services for individuals, couples, and families, Care coordination, professional and personal training, advocacy, etc.

APPS/TECHNOLOGY 

• Breathwrk 

• Brené Brown Video on Empathy

• Calm – There’s also an AppleTV app and you can watch from your AppleTV

• Happy Color App 

• Insight Timer is a free app with guided meditations for stress, sleep, etc. Also great for tracking one’s commitment to meditation. 

• Tap In App – Live meditation app 

• Ten Percent Happier

BREATHING TECHNIQUES

• Alternate Nostril Breathing!  

• How To Video – Box Breathing    

• Pranayama Practice! (Intentional breathing practices in yoga)  

• Sesame Street: Learn to Belly Breath 

Mission Capital has collected these resources as general information only. Entries on these pages do not indicate an endorsement or a relationship between Mission Capital and the service provider. Entries listed may not be up to date. Please contact service providers directly to learn more.