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Mental health is as important as our spiritual health. Yet it can be difficult sometimes to know where to find information and help for those who may be dealing with mental health challenges. Friends and family members may want to provide support to their loved one, but don't know how. Here, you will find resources to help you on this journey all in one convenient package. No matter what you're facing, there is always hope.
Mental Health Awareness
We've joined the national effort to raise awareness, reduce the stigma, and equip members of our community as they pursue mental wellbeing. Visit us this weekend and be encouraged with this practical message of hope, "Battle for Your Mind" with Lead Pastor Robert Wachs.
Raising Awareness
- Starting to Think About Mental Health (PDF)
- What Plays a Role in Developing Mental Health Conditions (PDF)
- Maintaining Good Mental Health (PDF)
- Recognizing When You Need Help with Your Mental Health (PDF)
- What to Do When You Need Help (PDF)
- Where to Go When You Need Help(PDF)
- Terms to Know About Mental Health (PDF)
Resources
We have found a great selection of helpful websites and free resources from individuals and organizations dedicated to improving and supporting mental health. No one person is alone, so whether you are dealing with mental health challenges yourself, or are supporting a friend or family member who is and you need help for yourself, please seek out support. One of the best all-in-one resources is a guide put together by Saddleback Church's mental health ministry. If you don't know where to start, download this guide.
Recommended Sites
Mental Health Tools
Recognize Warning Signs and Learn to Start the Conversation
MHA offers online Screening for a variety of mental health conditions and based on your results can recommends next steps.
Psychology Today maintains an extensive searchable database of therapists, psychiatrists, support groups, treatment centers and teletherapy options throughout the country.
Creating a safety plan will help to guide you through a crisis when you may be at risk of hurting yourself .
Getting Help in San Diego
Click through the questions below if you are looking for services in San Diego for yourself or a loved one.
If you or someone you know is in immediate risk of harm to self, call the suicide hotline at 800-273-8255.
The Access & Crisis Line is staffed by Master's Level and Licensed clinicians who provide immediate support and information for suicide prevention, crisis intervention, community resources, mental health referrals, and alcohol and drug support services.
Call 888-724-7240 to also access MCRT, a Mobile Crisis Response Team. They provide in-person support to anyone, anywhere, experiencing a mental health, drug, or alcohol-related crisis. MCRT dispatches behavioral health experts to emergency calls instead of law enforcement, when appropriate, with teams made up of clinicians, case managers, and peer support specialists.
- For more information, visit MCRT
Psychiatric Emergency Response Team (PERT) responds to psychiatric emergencies. PERT operates within San Diego County and consists of licensed mental health clinicians paired with specially trained law enforcement officers and paramedics. Together, they interact with persons experiencing a behavioral health crisis who have come to the attention of public safety agencies.
- For more information visit PERT.
- To access PERT services, dial 911 and ask for a PERT to be dispatched to your location.
Additional Options for Specific Populations:
- Kids & Youth: Rady Children’s Behavioral Health Urgent Care: 858-966-5484. Assessment, crisis intervention and inks to resources in collaboration with community partners.
- Medi-cal Insurance Only: Emergency Screening Unit 4309 Third Ave., San Diego, CA 92103. Call 619-876-4502
- Veterans: Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center,
3350 La Jolla Village Drive, San Diego, CA 92161
Mental Health Clinic: 858-642-3391
NAMI San Diego Helpline is a telephone service for families, friends and those affected by serious mental illness; provides information about resources and support groups. To schedule an appointment to talk to someone in person call 619-398-9850.
Suicide Prevention – Hotline: 800-273-8255 (effective July 2022, the three-digit emergency number will be 988).
Visit 211SanDiego
Support Groups at Newbreak Church
Each stage of life presents new challenges and oftentimes, being with others who are going through the same thing can be a great encouragement. That's why we encourage everyone at Newbreak Church to be in a Life Group.
Life Groups are a place where people connect with others and learn how to do life together, both in the good times and in the difficult times. If you are not currently in a life group, we invite you to join one, even if you don't attend weekend services.
So whether you are a new mom, newly married, or new to faith, there is a group just for you. If you have confronted some of life's challenges and need support, we have care groups for you as well.
- Stepping Into Freedom is a Christ-Centered 12-step group for anyone dealing with a life-controlling problem.
- Concerned Persons provides support for friends and family of those whose lives are impacting by someone else's life controlling problem. It is like a Christ-Centered Al-Anon.
- Insights helps us build Christian character as we learn about our vulnerabilities and the spiritual and emotional conditions that contribute to problems taking root and growing in our lives.
- GriefShare is a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you through one of life’s most difficult experiences.
- Not Alone is a Christ-centered recovery group for women who have experienced physical, emotional, or sexual trauma.
- Mental Health Matters is a community education group that invites God into the healing and recovery process in addressing mental health challenges.
If you're currently facing a challenge and not sure where to turn, you may send an email to a member of our pastoral staff who will connect with you and help direct you to the support you need.
Right Now Media
Newbreak Church leverages the video teachings on Right Now Media to encourage and train our internal leadership as well as inform our audience. If there is a subject that interests you or a curriculum that catches your attention on Right Now Media, please text "Newbreak" to 49775 to receive access to the platform. Here are a few highlighted teachings from their Mental Health library:
- A Healing Body: Biblical solutions to help work through issues and find healing.
- Steps Course: Biblically based course based upon the 12 steps)
- Get Out of Your Head: Learn how to manage your mind to be free from destructive thoughts.
Getting Help When You Need It
Click through the resources below if you are looking for services in San Diego for yourself or a loved one. If you or someone you know is in immediate risk of harm to self, call the suicide hotline at 800-273-8255.
MHA Screening
Online screening is one of the quickest and easiest ways to determine if you’re experiencing symptoms of a mental health condition. Our screens are free, confidential, and scientifically validated.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
The 988 Lifeline provides 24/7, free, and confidential support to people in distress – you don’t need to be suicidal to reach out. Call 1-800-273-8255 to be connected with a crisis counselor. Crisis counselors who speak Spanish are available at 1-888-628-9454.
988 Textline
When you text 988, you will complete a short survey letting the crisis counselor know a little about your situation. You will be connected with a trained crisis counselor in a crisis center who will answer the text, provide support, and share resources if needed.
Crisis Text Line
If you prefer texting to talking on the phone, text MHA to 741-741 to be connected with a crisis counselor who will help you get through your emotions.
Warmlines
Warmlines are staffed by trained peers who have been through their own mental health struggles and know what it’s like to need someone to talk to. Visit here for more information on warmlines.
State of Mental Health in America Report 2023
The State of Mental Health in America report is intended to provide up-to-date data and information about disparities faced by individuals with mental health challenges and serve as a tool for change. Learn more about disparities in mental health treatment for youth of color by downloading the report.
MHA’s Workplace Mental Health Toolkit
Creating a Culture of Support and Well-being: The Workplace Mental Health Toolkit provides information on how employers and people leaders can develop or improve workplace policies that uplift workers, ensure they are valued and heard, and improve an organization’s overall culture of well-being. Download the report.
Mapping the Mental Health of Our Communities
For years, Mental Health America has provided free, anonymous, clinically validated mental health screens on our website, MHAScreening.org. Now, for the first time, our researchers and corporate partners at Lundbeck are geographically analyzing the results from millions of those mental health screens and showing you the data in near real time. This is the largest dataset of its kind, and now you can explore it at the state and county level on our powerful dashboard and in four comprehensive briefs.
Our Future in Mind Toolkit
If you want to become an advocate for mental health, the “How to become a mental health advocate in 7 steps” guide is for you. This toolkit is born from Our Future in Mind, a two-day mental health summit hosted by Mental Health America and IDONTMIND, featuring conversations from mental health experts and advocates highlighting their work and pathways to activism.
Safe and Stable Housing
- Housing
- Social Determinants of Health
- When Home Life is Hard – Adults
- When Home Life is Hard – Youth
- Understanding Abuse
- My Family Members Are Abusive
- Eliminating Toxic Influences
Healthy Home Environments
- Working From Home with ADHD
- How Can I Manage My Mental Health While Working from Home?
- 5 Ways to Stay Focused When You Have No Dedicated Workspace
- How Do I Stay Clean and Sober While I’m Stuck at Home?
- Co-occurring: Mental Health and Substance Abuse
- Helping at Home – Tips for Parents
- How to Deal with Homesickness in College
- How to Deal with Roommate Problems
- I Can’t Sleep!
- Sleep Complications in Recovery
- Get Enough Sleep
- Sleep Deprivation
- How Blue Light Affects Sleep
- Should I Kick out My Adult Child?
- Creating Healthy Routines
Neighborhoods and Towns
- Rural Mental Health Crisis
- Talking to Kids About Fear and Violence
- How Can I Get Mental Health Help in a Small Town?
- Community Care
- How You Can Address Both Mental Health and Hunger in Your Community
- Social Support: Getting and Staying Connected
- We Build Our Community, and Then It Builds Us
- Feeling Lonely in a Crowd
- I Don’t Feel Like I Belong Anywhere
The Outdoors and Nature
- MHA Partnership to Prioritize the Power of Going Outside
- 18 Ways to Cope with Frustration
- Safety Not Stigma – Reframing the Way We Talk About Guns and Violence
- Handling the Holidays in a Non-LGBTQ+ Affirming Environment
- Preventing and Healing from Child Abuse and Neglect
- Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth in Our Communities
- Workplace Mental Health: Employer Perspective
- The Rural Mental Health Crisis
- Providing Peer Support in a Rural Environment
AAKOMA Project
AAKOMA works to build the consciousness of youth of color and their caregivers on the recognition and importance of mental health, empowering youth and their families to seek help and manage mental health, and influence systems and services to receive and address the needs of youth of color and their families.
Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA)
ADAA is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders through the alignment of science, treatment, and education.
Caregiver Action Network (CAN)
CAN is the nation’s leading family caregiver organization working to improve the quality of life for the more than 90 million Americans who care for loved ones with chronic conditions, disabilities, disease, or the frailties of old age. Individuals can reach out for guidance and support to their dedicated Caregiver Help Desk.
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment (CRPE)
CRPE is a national environmental justice organization providing legal, organizing, and technical assistance to grassroots groups in low-income communities and communities of color. Their work focuses on solutions involving climate justice, sustainable agriculture, and toxic-free communities. The CRPE believes social change comes from the ground up and that low-income communities and communities of color most impacted by pollution need to define the problems and craft the solutions for their communities.
Faces and Voices of Recovery
Faces and Voices of Recovery works to change the way addiction and recovery are understood and embraced through advocacy, education, and leadership.
Health Equity Collaborative
The Health Equity Collaborative seeks to eliminate health disparities through the utilization of a holistic and intersectional approach to health care.
IDONTMIND
IDONTMIND is a mental health awareness campaign and lifestyle brand working to get people talking about their minds and to generate positive messaging about mental health. Check out their online journal for articles on all things mental health.
Lavender Phoenix
Lavender Phoenix builds queer and transgender Asian and Pacific Islander power to amplify voices and increase the visibility of the communities. Through organizing in the San Francisco Bay Area, they inspire and train grassroots leaders, transform values from scarcity to abundance, and partner with organizations to sustain a vibrant movement ecosystem.
L.L. Bean
Mental Health America and L.L. Bean have partnered to promote outdoor activity as a simple way to improve well- being. Learn more about the partnership here.
Mental Health Coalition (MHC)
Formed to catalyze like-minded communities to work together to destigmatize mental health and empower access to vital resources and necessary support for all, the MHC connects individuals to a range of different resources from Coalition members.
The Mental Health Collaborative
The Mental Health Collaborative works to build resilient communities through mental health education and awareness, decreasing stigma, and opening the door to conversations about mental health. They train schools, organizations, and communities in mental health literacy – the foundational education that all of us need to promote our best mental health.
Rural Minds
Rural Minds serves as the informed voice for mental health in rural America and provides mental health information and resources.
Southern Echo: Southern Echo works to empower Black and low-income communities throughout Mississippi and the southern U.S. with the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to impact and demand accountability of the political, education, economic, and environmental systems to address the needs of communities through comprehensive organizing, leadership development, training, and technical assistance programs.
The Praxis Project
The Praxis Project is a national nonprofit that works in partnership with national, regional, state, and local partners to achieve health equity and justice for all communities.
wikiHow
wikiHow is an online community consisting of an extensive database of how-to guides. Check out their course, created in collaboration with MHA: Boost Your Well-Being: wikiHow’s Healthy Mind Masterclass.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: https://988lifeline.org
The 988 Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support to people in distress - you don't need to be suicidal to reach out. Call 1-800-273-8255 to be connected with. crisis counselor.
When you text 988, you will complete a short survey letting the crisis counselor know a little about your situation. You will be connected with a trained crisis counselor in a crisis center who will answer the text, provide support, and share resources if needed.
CrisisTextLine: https://www.crisistextline.org
If you prefer texting to talking on the phone, text MHA to 741-741 to be connected with a crisis counselor who will help you get through your emotions.
Warmlines: https://warmline.org/warmdir.html#directory
Warmlines are staed by trained peers who have been through their own mental health struggles and know what it’s like to need someone to talk to.
Mobile Crisis Response Teams (MCRT): https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/mcrt/
(888)724-7240
Psychiatric Emergency Response Team (PERT):
Call 911 and request PERT.
SDPD Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) serves the city of San Diego:
https://www.sandiego.gov/homelessness-strategies-and-solutions/services/outreach
SDSO Homeless Assistance Resource Team (HART) serves the unincorporated areas of San Diego:
Email Team.Hart@sdsheri.org https://www.sdsheriff.gov/community/homeless-outreach
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