The U.S. Department of Agriculture granted the state’s agriculture department $500,000 to put toward making mental health resources more readily available for rural farmers.
“A Healthy You, A Healthy Farm” program coordinator Liz Mooneyham says farmers have been in the business for generations and says farming is a lot of pressure.
Mooneyham says mental health is something farmers don’t really talk about and is something the department is not an expert on. That’s why the program is partnering with the Alabama Department of Mental Health to use their trainers and resources. “We want to equip people who are already in the community and are already your neighbors, your church family, your co-workers,” said Mooneyham.
Mooneyham says the program’s goal is to train 500 people on suicide prevention. So far, they have reached 200. “It’s something that a lot of us have struggled with, and so when we get a chance to say, ‘Hey that’s OK. Hey, I’ve been there too,’ I think a lot of people have been able to resonate with that. And hopefully after the end of this initiative it will continue from there,” said Mooneyham.and get the latest local news and breaking alerts in your email!
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