Each of Call to Mind’s Spotlight events focus on one aspect of wellness and mental health, and we explore new ideas and best practices with credible expertise. Spotlight events are always free and open to the public. Browse our past Spotlight programming below.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many human interactions into virtual spaces, including mental health care and therapy. Providers, care plans, and policymakers rushed to expand virtual access to therapy and other wellness treatments.
Through interviews with expert clinicians and researchers, “Spotlight on Virtual Mental Health Care,” explores the pandemic’s pivot to virtual care technologies — their advancements and challenges. How well are video and telehealth options replacing in-person care? Who benefitted from the expansion of online services, and who was left out of these new tech-reliant solutions? How well do mobile wellness apps protect patient privacy?
Call to Mind host Kimberly Adams interviews national leaders in telemedicine and mental health to learn how well virtual mental health services are working, and how these still-evolving technologies will shape care into the future.
The nation’s mental health crisis is worsening with the COVID-19 pandemic. About two in five adults reported struggling with their mental health, including substance use, in the last year. That’s twice the number of Americans who typically experience a mental illness in any given year. It’s time to rethink mental health care.
How can our system of care shorten the ten year average to treat people after their first symptoms? What would the ideal mental health care system look like? What policies need to change to create it?
Host Kimberly Adams talks with national leaders in mental health care and policy reform in a recent virtual event discussion.
The death of George Floyd, a black man killed while being forcefully detained by a Minneapolis Police officer, has sparked peaceful demonstrations and destructive riots between protesters and police in the Twin Cities and across the country.
Angela Davis, host of MPR News with Angela Davis, moderated a live-stream virtual conversation about the most recent high-profile incident to become an example of historic racial injustice.
In our Spotlight on Parenting During Coronavirus event, MPR News host, Angela Davis, spoke with mental health experts to talk about ways for parents to support their own well-being during this difficult time. COVID-19 is putting a lot of pressure on parents and caregivers. Child care is complicated, when available, and managing kids’ distance learning adds new challenges. Angela and her guests explore useful coping strategies and how to know when it’s time to ask for help among other things.
This special is from a panel event inspired by a documentary from Minnesota Public Radio and APM Reports called, Uprooted: The 1950s Plan to Erase Indian Country by MPR News reporter and producer Max Nesterak.
A straightforward, insightful discussion of the cultural effects of ongoing trauma and mental health impacts from the federal government’s American Indian Relocation Program designed in the 1950s to assimilate Indigenous people into white-centric society and eliminate tribal governments and culture.
Recorded at the Minneapolis American Indian Center, Indigenous experts from around the country delve spoke with a primarily Indigenous audience about the impacts of historical trauma in their community and the resiliency factors that empower so many to overcome persistent systems of discrimination.
Your college years are filled with opportunities to learn and gain experiences that shape the rest of your adult life. Adapting to the stresses of college life can affect your well-being.
College students have been reporting an increase of mental health symptoms for more than a decade. Each year, about one in five people are dealing with a mental health condition, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About three-fourths of people with lifelong mental illnesses experience symptoms by the time they turn 24 years old, so young adults need support to help identify opportunities to connect with care.
Colleges are trying to keep up with the overwhelming demand to support a diverse student body. Many are challenged by the best ways to coordinate services between students, faculty and staff, mental health professionals.
Kerri Miller, host of MPR News at 9am moderated a discussion with students from large and small public and private colleges and universites about the stresses of college life today and how campuses are, or could be, addressing student well-being.
MPR's Tom Crann hosted an event in Rochester, Minn., on May 29 with three experts who explore the impact of childhood trauma on mental health and suggest ways to build resilience in children.
When a child feels intensely threatened by an event that they experience, that is trauma. Childhood trauma occurs more than most people think. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states more than two-thirds of children reported at least one traumatic event by age 16. The impact of child traumatic stress is significant and is linked to chronic physical and mental health conditions.
But there is hope. Children can and do recover from traumatic events, and you can play an important role in their recovery. One key is to approach children not with the question, 'what's wrong with you?' but rather, 'what happened to you?'
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than half of Americans will experience a mental health condition in their lives. Yet many Minnesota counties report that people are unable to get appropriate care when they need it.
MPR News Political Editor Mike Mulcahy hosted a conversation about why people who need mental health care are unable to access it, and why funding challenges remain a decade after federal mental health parity law was enacted.
This event, recorded in MPR's UBS Forum, is part of Call to Mind, Minnesota Public Radio's initiative to foster new conversations about mental health.
MPR News host Angela Davis and three experts on children and mental health discussed how to identify kids who need help and how schools, practitioners, and families can work together to give kids the support and treatment they need.