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What is Reach Out for Wellness?

Reach Out for Wellness is an online toolkit designed to support the mental health needs of Extension professionals following natural disasters. We invite you to use these research-based tools to help you better understand your wellness, learn strategies to improve it and seek help from your support system.

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Our mission is to promote the wellness of Extension professionals assisting with natural disaster recovery efforts.

Goals

The goals of the Reach Out for Wellness program are to help you:

Evaluate and reflect on your wellness.
Learn practical and effective coping strategies.
Seek help from your support system.

Taking care of you

Extension professionals are often frontline caregivers in times of crisis. They provide vital assistance to communities during natural disaster response and recovery.

After a disaster fades from the headlines, Extension professionals continue to be a lifeline for those struggling to cope with devastating financial, material and personal losses. Exposure to such hardship often leads survivors to experience extreme stress, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety.

Extension community members are at risk for the same trauma and mental health challenges — and may lack the resources to address them. This toolkit is for you.

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What is wellness?

Reach Out for Wellness is focused on improving your mental health, which is supported by your overall wellness. The term “wellness” takes into account several dimensions of an individual’s overall health.

Emotional
Professional
Spiritual
Intellectual
Physical
Social

You are not alone

You and others working on the frontlines after a natural disaster carry a heavy load — but you don’t have to carry it alone.