Boise High Hope Squad recognizes that it can be difficult to ask for mental health help because of the stigmas that surround this topic. However, connecting with help is an important step in suicide prevention. This year, our Hope Squad focused on ways that we could lessen the stigma of talking about mental health and being more conscious of how we talk about mental health.
This challenge was created by our Hope Squad Members to get students to think about the small ways in which the language we use might contribute to the social stigma around mental health. And challenges us to think of different ways we might express ourselves.