Mental Health Resources for Parents/Caregivers
Mental health of young people is a key concern for Singapore with recent events throwing a spotlight on it. For this #SaturdayGoodRead, EAST News reproduces a set of resources originally compiled for parents of youths at Grace Baptist Church (GBC). We thank Ms Hannah Yeo of the GBC Youth Ministry for graciously allowing us to do so. May it be a timely and useful resource for parents or caregivers to engage in ongoing conversations with their teenagers, not only for those who have signs of mental health challenges.
According to the Straits Times, “more than half of the young people polled by the National Youth Council [NYC] in the second half of 2020 said that mental well-being was a challenge for them, with some citing anxiety over the future, stress over finances, and worries about academic or work performance.” Even before the onset of COVID-19, mental health for youths was an issue flagged by NYC (see its April 2019 issue of Y+).
Like Father, Like Son
Design by Blessed Ong
“Like father, like son!” speaks of both the DNA and an environment for growth. May the new nature we have in Christ, sacrificially given by our Heavenly Father, be nurtured through the fellowship of the Holy Spirit and fellow saints in molding us to be more like Him!
๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ฅโ๐ฆ ๐๐๐ฌโ โ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐๐ฒ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐น๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ท๐ผ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ; ๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ผ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ด๐น๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ต๐ถ๐บ.โ ~ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฏ:๐ฎ๐ฐ, ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ
Sacred Parenting with EAST PIM
The EAST Partners in Ministry (PIM) program is designed for wives of seminary students, or whose husbands are ministers or in vocational Christian ministry. PIM seeks to develop wives as they grow in partnership with their husbands and in their own circle of influence.
The above photo is the PIM group who went through the fruitful 6-week course on “Sacred Parenting” with resources from Gary Thomas. The PIM ladies are so blessed by the biblically-based material and group interactions. They learnt how God uses the challenges and struggles in parenting as God’s spiritual formation curriculum to shape each parent to be more like the Heavenly Father.
Photo courtesy of Josephine Lam. A portion of text originated from Josephine Lam and Margaret Chan.
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