Stress and Mental Health Resources
How Stress Affects You
How to Cultivate a Productive Mindset
Responding to Distressed People
Stress Coping Strategies
How to Talk to Farmers Under Stress
Resources from UW-Extension
Project Recovery-Wisconsin
WI Farm Center Farmer Wellness Program
Rural Realities Podcast
The ‘Rural Realities‘ podcast series provides information and resources related to stress and challenges facing farmers and farm families. One of the primary goals of the podcast is to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health issues in rural communities. The podcast is brought to you by the Wisconsin Farm Center.
AFBF Rural Resilience Farm Stress Training
Learn how to recognize the signs and symptoms of stress and suicide, ways to effectively communicate with people under stress, and how to reduce stigma related to mental health concerns. What you learn in this course can help your friends, family, neighbors and community during stressful times.
Recognizing the high levels of stress affecting America’s farmers and ranchers, USDA’s Cooperative Extension System, Farm Credit, American Farm Bureau Federation and National Farmers Union have worked together to bring this free, online course to you.
Click here to take the course.
Shareable Social Media Graphics
Consider using these graphics to share more about mental health resources available to farmers, spotting the signs of chronic stress and depression and to break down the stigma associated with mental health in rural communities.
