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NCOE Varsity Baseball Team Supports Children's Mental Health Awareness!

This month, the NCOE team will participate in the Dinger Bats / Project Connect Children's Mental Health Awareness Campaign. The team is pictured below wearing green armbands created by Dinger Bats and Project Connect for all high school baseball teams in White, Gallatin, and Saline Counties. Team members were encouraged to wear their armbands and post photos to social media in their uniforms and armbands. High school sports team members are role models to younger athletes and we appreciate their influence in raising awareness about children's mental health in the month of May.

NCOE Senior Baseball Players

NCOE Junior Baseball Players

NCOE Soph/Fresh Baseball Players

Also supporting the campaign is NCOE Coach Haley & Hardin County Assistant Coach Jim Spivey!

Mental Health & Relationships

This month at NCOE, we engaged FoM students in thinking about healthy relationships and sharing info that creates strong messages about avoiding abusive relationships. Our total group of 20 volunteer students enjoyed McDonald's cheeseburgers and apple slices which put a spring in their social media hearts for the month of February!
There are so many great online resources available to find great info about relationships -- videos, infographics, text responses, and bite-size shareable facts. The ones we chose to highlight this month were loveisrespect.org, cdc.gov/violenceprevention, thatsnotcool.com, and futureswithoutviolence.org. You can visit the links above or check out the direct information on our site.

Victoria Long -- NCOE February STAR

We were also excited to announce our newest FoM SM STAR for NCOE. Victoria Long uses Facebook as her preferred platform for social media and made a total of 85 posts since our last meeting in January. Victoria went above and beyond finding a large number of facts on her own that she posted. You can find her as Victoria Long (Madden) on Facebook, or follow her posts on our page at www.facebook.com/friendofmhinds/

Kristin Melton, FoM Team
Project Connect Social Marketing Coordinator

Do you know your CMH Facts?

For today's meeting at NCOE, students enjoyed pizza from Mimmo's Pizza in Norris City.

Our goal today was to give students general information about children's mental health and encourage them to post some mental health facts through their personal social media sites. Check out the facts guide on the FoM main home page to share more.