Many agricultural workers with disabilities face challenges beyond their physical issues, such as depression, stress, addictions, and other mental/behavioral health concerns. In addition, certain mental/behavioral health issues are considered disabilities in themselves.
Listed here are resources recommended by AgrAbility staff members for addressing such matters.
www.agrability.cahs.colostate.edu
Includes links to a series of family fact sheets for child/youth, elderly, relationships topics that include information on stress and coping, suicide, emotions, and family relationships.
www.ruralcare.info
A link to the Rural Caregivers Web site that contains links to a variety of materials and resources for Caregiver Workshops.
extension.umaine.edu/agrability/solutions-and- resources/mental-health/
Includes a variety of published resources discussing mental health and stress management resources for agricultural communities.
https://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AEE/AEE-150/AEE-150.html
Mental Health Topics for Farm Families and Caregivers: An AgrAbility Virginia Program Resource serves as a resource to support those experiencing mental health concerns and caregivers/families by providing demographic information of various mental health conditions, copying strategies, and additional resources.
www.uwyo.edu/fcs/faculty-staff/weigel/life/personal-nature- agriculture/stress.html
Includes links to a variety of publications on stress, emotions, crisis, disasters, and coping from the University of Wyoming Extension.
The Surprising Reality Of Depression And Suicide Among Farmers. Discussion of depression and suicide in farming community with special focus on the suicide of a Minnesota farmer and its affects on others. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-surprising- reality-of-depression-and-suicide-in-the-farming- community_us_5b5a424ee4b0b15aba96eab7
Green Blood Red Tears is a documentary about a Kentucky farmer who committed suicide. Ag-Culture Media, Middletown, Kentucky. https://www.amazon.com/Green-Blood-Red- Tears/dp/B000QCQ8CQ
Fierce Goodbye: Living in the Shadow of Suicide. Mennonite Media. https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Goodbye-Living- Shadow-Suicide/dp/B00061UI3C
Shadow Voices: Finding Hope in Mental Illness. Mennonite Media. https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Voices-Finding-Mental- Illness/dp/B002JAHXWM
"Mental Health First Aid" www.youtube.com/watch? v=FYvSc3GCbpQ&t=3s. National AgrAbility Project
"Stress Management on the Farm" www.youtube.com/watch? time_continue=5&v=IsvRTsUyFes. MidAtlantic Women in Agriculture.
"Rural Behavioral Health Learning Collaborative - Understanding the Opioid Crisis & Community Strategies" www.youtube.com/watch? v=SbPCBygTq98. The TA Network and SAMHSA.
www.agbehavioralhealth.com
The website of Michael Rosmann, rural psychologist, it contains resources related to behavioral health for farmers and ranchers.
www.valfarmer.com
Contains Val Farmer's many writings on rural mental health and family relationships.
www.nami.org
NAMI is a strong grassroots organization that conducts tuition free courses for families of individuals with mental illness and organizes support groups for those individuals. Their Web site contains information on disorders, symptoms, treatment, medications and advocacy.
www.nmha.org
MHA's goal is to educate the public about mental health and mental illness. It maintains the Suicide and Crisis Hotline, 800-273-8255, and provides information on disorders, symptoms, treatment, medications, clinical trials, referrals, appealing denials, payment help, advocacy, and community screenings. The site contains online screenings for various disorders that can be used to determine symptoms and direct the person to professional treatment if required--just type screening in the search window.
www.thenationalcouncil.org
The National Council for Behavioral Health is a not-for-profit organization with serves as a voice for health care organizations across America who provide mental health and addiction treatments and services. The organization also serves as the driving force behind the Mental Health First Aid movement and provides a variety of mental health related resources.
www.nimh.nih.gov
NIMH is dedicated to research, and its site contains clinical trials, research publications, and general information on disorders, medications, symptoms and treatment. A timely publication available here is, "Guide: Getting through Tough Economic Times."
Links to additional rural health organizations in which support mental health concerns including demographic specific resources.
counsellingresource.com/quizzes/cesd/index.html
Counseling resource website for the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), a screening test for depression.
counsellingresource.com/quizzes/alcohol- mast/index.html
Counseling resource website for the Michigan Alcohol Screening Test (MAST) for alcohol abuse.
counsellingresource.com/quizzes/drug- abuse/index.html
Counseling resource website for the Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST).
www.nmha.org/go/help/finding-help/take-a-screening
Mental Health America's website for an online stress screening.
Type "screening" in the search window for Mental Health America's screenings for various disorders.
www.mentalhealthamerica.net/go/searchMHA
Mental Health America
www.nami.org/Find-Your-Local-NAMI
National Alliance on Mental Illness
findtreatment.samhsa.gov/
SAMHSA
www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/
Mental Health First Aid
www.generationrx.org/
Generation Rx-Medication management (prescription, opioids, etc.)