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Farm stressors can come from many directions including the agricultural system, farm and family finances, mental and physical health challenges, and relationship difficulties. A healthy response to these challenges involves paying attention to the stressors within all of these areas and determining coping strategies that are useful in each area.
Fact sheet to help recognize symptoms of stress during a farming challenge.
The voucher program provides funding for free mental health counseling services to farm families.
Changing the way in which we define strength can challenge the stigma around men’s mental health. Creating a culture where mental health conversations are normalized for everyone is key to accomplishing this.
Behind the resilience farm families are known for, mental health challenges have increasingly come into focus. Learn how a new voucher program is helping South Dakota families cultivate emotional well-being.
SDSU Extension provides QPR (Question Persuade Refer) trainings to agricultural groups and rural communities interested in preventing suicide. The goal of this training is to save lives and reduce suicidal behaviors.
Despite the opportunities that come with a new planting season, it is just as important to care for your mental and physical health during this busy, stressful time of the year.
SDSU Extension experts work collaboratively with SDSU faculty and experts from across the region, to implement mental health programming to support agricultural producers as well as other rural South Dakotans.
With unpredictable weather and market prices, harvest season can feel like a whirlwind with incredible pressure. Learn some expert tips for recognizing and managing stress during this critical time of the year for farm families.
Suicide is preventable, and everyone has a role to help save lives and create healthy and strong individuals, families, and communities in South Dakota.
In this episode of Cattle HQ, Addie Womack chats with Andrea Bjornestad from SDSU Extension to discuss mental health in the agriculture field.