The Aggie Advocate
Promoting mental wellness in the ACS community
January is Mental Wellness Month
What is mental wellness?
Mental wellness is a dynamic, renewable, and positive resource. It is an active process that requires initiative and conscious action. It recognizes mental wellness as an internal experience that encompasses multiple dimensions:
•Mental: How we think; how we process, understand, and use information.
•Emotional: How we feel; how we manage and express our emotions.
•Social: How we connect; our relationships with others.
•Psychological: How we act or function, or how we “put the pieces together" from external and internal experiences.
credit: Global Wellness Institute
❄️ Mental Wellness at ACS🧣
How do we promote mental wellness in our school system?
- Daily use of Rhithm, an app that helps students and staff monitor their overall wellbeing via daily wellness check-ins
- Classroom lessons led by school counselors that teach students strategies and skills to promote wellbeing, such as making healthy choices, communicating effectively, calming down when angry or anxious, and resolving conflict
- Aggie Advocates provide academic, social, and emotional support and connect students and families to needed community resources
- ACS Foundation's Ready to Learn program provides clothing, shoes, hygiene supplies, and other items for students in need and promotes mental wellness by meeting physical needs
- Therapy dog visits
- Uprise Health newsletters and services available to ACS employees to inform and promote mental wellness
🧣 The Aggie Advocacy Center ❄️
Kristi Rains, NBCT, LPC
Albertville City Schools
Email: krains@albertk12.org
Website: www.albertk12.org
Location: 202 East Alabama Avenue, Albertville, AL, USA
Phone: 256-891-1183