Episode 5: Hope and Halloween tackles tough and timely topics. Featured guest, Amanda Ganoe, Suicide Prevention Coordinator with Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center, shares ways to build your quaran-team; tips to deal with procrastination; how to build self-care into our schedules and other helpful mental health resources (0:55). We also hear from Leah Bulka, Youth Suicide Prevention Coordinator with Teen Health Matters, another local resource for dealing with tough topics (22:40). Our podcast team delves into the season by discussing scary movie tropes; debating the best Halloween candies; decorating for the season; designing costumes, and rearranging their plans to celebrate this year (23:45). The episode concludes with a round-up of spooky stories, movies, and more to help you get in the spirit (52:19).

Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center

24-Hour Crisis Hotline 410-531-6677

https://grassrootscrisis.org

There Is Hope App (a “counselor in your pocket”) https://grassrootscrisis.org/services/there-is-hope-app/

Teen Health Matters

https://teenhealthmatters.org

410-313-6240

Tough Topics book list

https://bit.ly/3oAeTK6

Reviews

Dracula, Bram Stoker

https://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&pos=6&cn=23243

Parasyte: The Maxim, created by Hitoshi Iwaaki

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910851437

Ring, Based on the novel by Koji Suzuki

https://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&pos=1&cn=236543

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/74521815

Buzzfeed Unsolved

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKijjvu6bN1c-ZHVwR7-5WA