For the last three years, it has been a pleasure to serve your organization and constituents by providing creative, timely and supportive emotional health resources through the Stay Well program. Stay Well started as a federal grant program established to provide behavioral and emotional support programming during the COVID-19 pandemic. During those unprecedented times we were pleased to provide numerous webinars, toolkits, videos and materials to Michiganders and organizations that benefitted from those resources.

With the ending of the public health emergency, the Stay Well program will be discontinued effective December 31. Live programming will continue through November and December. Please share with the adults, teens and children you serve that these final live webinars are scheduled and registration is open (see flyers):

• Coping with Grief and Loss – Mondays at 6 p.m., Wednesdays at noon – series concludes Nov. 8.
• Coping with Grief and Loss through the Holidays – Mondays at 6 p.m., Wednesdays at noon – series runs from Nov. 27 through Dec. 20.
• Addictions and the Impact of COVID-19 – Tuesdays at noon. Five-part series concludes Nov. 21.
• Creative Coping: Art-based workshop for kids and parents – Saturdays at 1 p.m. Current series concludes Nov. 11.  Final series will run Nov. 25 through Dec. 16.
• Staying Well: An emotional health workshop for teens – Saturdays at 2 p.m. Current series concludes Nov. 11.  Final series will run Nov. 25 through Dec. 16.

All the Stay Well resources, including recorded webinars and workshops, wellness videos and downloadable teaching tools, will still be available on the MDHHS website. We hope you will use this archive to continue to offer virtual education and support to your constituents.

We also still have a supply of free Stay Well stickers, posters and brochures. The items remaining in our inventory are listed on this webpage, where you’ll find the latest order form. Place orders before Dec. 31 to address needs for the coming year. Be assured that these resources will remain useful and relevant; the QR codes on some items lead to MDHHS behavioral resources, which will include the Stay Well archived resources.

Without your partnership, the Stay Well program would not have found the success it did. From all of us here at Stay Well, thank you for three years of open and honest feedback, partnership, and steadfast support!

Erin Wallace (she/hers)

Project Manager

Stay Well program

c) 517.242.8125

www.michigan.gov/staywell

Cathy Lancaster

Youth Services Coordinator

Library of Michigan
702 W. Kalamazoo St.
Lansing, MI 48915
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