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Since then, the project has brought on
Mental health and your club new supporters and is now fully funded
with a $500,000 endowment. Investment
income from this endowment will support
ear fellow Rotary members, a fellow — a psychologist or psychiatrist
D The World Health Organization — at Children’s Hospital. A new fellow
designates 10 October as World Mental will be named every one to two years,
Health Day, and with Rotary placing a beginning spring of 2024. Over time this
special focus on mental health this year, will create a cohort to bolster the mental
I would like to help answer the question health workforce, treating kids from all 64
posed to me most often when I travel to Colorado counties and neighboring states.
meet members: How can my club get There are many more great mental health
started? project stories on Rotary Showcase, and I
There are some wonderful examples of invite you to share your experiences as you
Rotary members taking action already. In begin your own projects. Also, please reach
the Philippines, the Rotary Club of Tiaong- out to mindhealth@rotary.org with any
Hiyas held a 12-week health challenge for thoughts or ideas you would like to share
mothers in the community to promote some about mental health in the Rotary world.
baseline health screenings and coaching on a On 10 October, I will host a Facebook
healthier lifestyle. Live event when we will recognize World
By the end of the challenge, the mothers Mental Health Day and further explore how
had a special bond and decided to form a Rotary members can begin this journey. But
Rotary Community Corps called Ilaw ng I would like to leave you with one way every
Tahanan (“one who lights up the home”) Rotary member can make a difference.
with the goal of involving more mothers in Right now, there is someone you know
health education and wellness support — in the Rotary world — in your club, from
and later youth services, teen pregnancy a project you’ve worked on, in a Rotary
prevention, and help with unhealthy Fellowship or Rotary Action Group — who
substance use. Almost a year later, the RCC could use a little more of your time and
is preparing to open its own health center attention. Rotary is this great gift of global
where mothers can come for peer-to-peer friendship, and that also means being there
support. for each other.
Another strong example is in Colorado. Discovering the human connections
In the fall of 2021, a small group of that bind us is what we do through our
stakeholders from the Rotary Club of membership every day. It’s what Rotary has
Highlands Ranch formed the Rotary Clubs always been about, and we can build on it by
of Colorado Endowed Fellowship for helping each other find peace at home.
Pediatric Mental Health, which enhances We need to learn how to ask not just “How
the ability of Children’s Hospital Colorado are you?” but also “How are you really?”
to recruit and train pediatric psychiatry By doing so, Rotary can continue to Create
providers and allows the hospital network Hope in the World.
to make additional appointments. This
increases access to mental health care for R. GORDON R. MCINALLY
children and decreases provider shortages. President, Rotary International
2023. 10-11 總監月刊