The Beacon Way
Want to grow your business but not sure how? Wondering when to recruit new team members? Struggling to stay motivated after a setback? Tune in to find out everything you need to know to help your business grow, scale, and thrive, from two people who’ve done it successfully. Adrienne Wilkerson and Jennifer Christensen each have more than two decades of small business experience, and now they’re sharing the story of how they built a seven-figure company to help others do the same. Find out about all the highs and lows, including surprise wins and hard knocks, with plenty of laughs along the way. While you’re here, they’ll give you all the tips and tricks you need to build a winning digital marketing strategy of your own. Ready to get started?
The Beacon Way
Reducing the Stigma of Mental Health in Schools
Supporting mental health in Minnesota schools, Prairie Care Fund provides crucial funding for resources, training, and peer-to-peer initiatives.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Introduction to Prairie Care Fund, a mental health nonprofit boosting mental health initiatives in Minnesota schools.
- Overview of how the funds can be used including curriculum, books, fidgets, HeartMath monitors.
- Highlighting the impact of Prairie Care Fund: $1.4M awarded, over 80,000 students and staff impacted.
- Tackling the challenge: 69 grant applications in 2023, $1.5M requested, only $220,000 awarded.
- Unfolding the success stories: mental health first aid training, peer-to-peer training, and early onset mental illness identification skills.
- Striving to reduce mental health stigma and provide coping mechanisms.
- The imperative need for mental health resources and support in schools.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Jennifer Christensen on LinkedIn
Jennifer Christensen on Twitter
Beacon Media + Marketing @beaconmm
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