Month: March 2023

Does your company have a passion for mental health and a creative idea to bring mental health actions and education to your community? If so, we invite you to join MTV for Mental Health Action Day on May 18th!

Mental Health Action Day was founded to shift our mental health culture from awareness to action! This movement is powered by a growing coalition of more than 1750 nonprofits, brands, government agencies, and influential leaders from more than 32 countries that spread the message that, just like our physical health, we can take actions to improve our mental health.

Become a partner! It is easy and free to become a partner. Just fill out this Google form to become a partner and then start getting creative about how you’re going to activate.

Community Grant program!
MTV is running a grant program to empower non-profit partners to reach their communities with activations on Mental Health Action Day to help promote action and share resources to improve mental health.

Applications open now at https://tinyurl.com/2hc9e4afWe are offering grants of up to $10,000 each to qualifying 501(c)(3) organizations to activate on Mental Health Action Day Thursday, May 18th, 2023Our goal is to support organizations with grants that can bring to life activations that reach young people directly, with a particular focus on those reaching young people from areas that traditionally lack community mental health resources.The deadline for submissions is 3/16/2023.

For over a century, the Heart of America Medical Center has provided essential medical services to the North Dakota community of Rugby.

And as rich in history the hospital is, it’s time for an upgrade.

“The oldest portion of the current building is from the 1940s and the newest is from the 90s,” says Tony Coffman, foundation director for the Good Samaritan Health Services Foundation, which supports the medical center. “We were told that financially we would have to close the hospital within the next seven years if we didn’t build a new one, so that’s exactly what we’re doing.”

About a year ago, the foundation kicked off a campaign to build a new facility in its “little community” that serves approximately 40,000 citizens in a six-county, 50-mile radius of Rugby.

The new 79,000-square-foot facility is a considerable downsize from the previous center, which sits at about 140,000 square feet, but the move will save on utility costs and is smartly designed to maximize efficiency.

“The new center is all one level, meaning it will make it easier for our employees to get around,” says Coffman.

Bed capacity will include 18 swing beds planned for long-term care stays and seven swing beds for acute care hospital stays.

“It’ll make it much easier for us to care for the needs of the community.”

Enbridge awarded a Fueling Futures grants of $20,000 to Good Samaritan Health Foundation Services in recent months to assist in the construction of the new Heart of America Medical Center.

Meanwhile, a Fueling Futures grant of $20,000 has helped Trinity Health in its efforts to enhance and equip a redesigned Emergency Trauma Center in Minot as part of a new health-care campus and medical district targeted for completion in 2023. “With the new facilities, we will be able to provide more efficient and effective care for patients,” says Dr. Scott Knutson. “Frankly, this new ER will benefit patient care in too many ways to count.”